You took the decision to move to the cloud and you selected Alibaba Cloud as your cloud services provider. Now it’s time to know how to connect your on-premise data center with the cloud. Alibaba Cloud’s Global Infrastructure Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure is built around regions and zones. Region refers to a physical node on a global scale. Each …
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My name is Ishita Mahajan and I am a Roopu Cloud Ambassador. In this blog post, I will deep dive into ApsaraDB for RDS and after that, I will show you step-by-step how you can create an ApsaraDB RDS instance for MySQL. ApsaraDB for RDS RDS stands for Relational Database System. A relational database is …
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This week I got very exciting news: Alibaba Cloud is planning to launch Control Policies for the Resource Management product. It is a feature that I have been waiting for a long time and multiple customers I have been working with as well. For those who don’t know what Resource Management service does, I wrote …
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Adopting an Alibaba Cloud multi-account strategy can provide many benefits without a lot of extra effort. Alibaba Cloud makes it quite easy to create new accounts on a whim and can simplify things with consolidated billing. Let’s take a look at why you might want to split your monolithic Alibaba Cloud account into micro-accounts. Before getting …
Last week Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of their VDI solution called Elastic Desktop Service (EDS). I posted an article explaining in detail what does the service, what are the benefits, and the common use cases. In this tutorial, I am going to guide you from an administrator perspective on how to configure Alibaba Cloud …
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Last week Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of their VDI solution called Elastic Desktop Service (EDS). I posted an article explaining in detail what does the service, what are the benefits, and the common use cases. In this tutorial, I am going to guide you from a user perspective on how to install and configure …
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In this blog post I would like to introduce you the Alibaba Cloud free tier and the always free of charges services. I consider it is a must before sitting to a certification exam or before taking the decision whether to use a cloud provider or not, to to test the platform, to play with …
In this blog post, I’m going to fly over the most important topics about SAP solutions on Alibaba Cloud and try to solve all your questions and doubts about it. Introduction SAP opened its first office in China in 1994 but compared to other countries the adoption of SAP solutions was low at the beginning. …
Due to the current situation that we are living with the pandemic, the terms home office, video calls, and digitalization are playing a fundamental role in organizations and enterprises. These topics are actually the priority of most enterprises, on one hand, to keep their employees safe, productive, and happy, while on the other hand, to …
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As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in cloud computing. As the market leader and most mature provider in the cloud computing space in China, currently offers multiple …
In this blog, I will show you how we can create an Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by using Terraform. Introduction to Alibaba Cloud VPC A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud. VPC provision logically isolated sections of the public cloud in order to provide …
If you are reading this post it means you are in the right place for content about Alibaba Cloud. In this blog post, I will go through the Alibaba Cloud Serverless ecosystem. I am assuming you know what serverless means and what are the benefits, features and use cases. In case you are not familiar …
As you may know, Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce announced in 2019 a very important strategic partnership. With this agreement, Alibaba Cloud became the exclusive provider of the Salesforce CRM in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Salesforce Platform. You can find here the official announcements: Salesforce …
If you are reading this post it means you are in the right place for content about Alibaba Cloud. In this blog post, I will go through the reasons to use Alibaba Cloud CEN (Cloud Enterprise Network). Introduction It’s worth to mention, that one of the main advantages of a public cloud, is the distributed …
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In this blog, we would like to introduce you to the Alibaba Cloud China Gateway. Introduction With the passage of time, new tricks have been introduced in the markets in different geographical locations. Basically, Alibaba Cloud is China’s most adopted public cloud platform that helps tons of customers. In the worldwide business, China has a …
This blog provides general information to help you understand and get started using Alibaba Cloud services. Introduction Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is a Chinese cloud computing company, which was officially launched in 2009. Alibaba Cloud is the subsidiary of Alibaba which is considered to be one of the world’s biggest technological companies, owning …
In the following tutorial I will give all the details related to the Alibaba Cloud OSS versioning feature and I will show you in a demo how to configure your OSS buckets as well as how to configure the versioning feature in the Alibaba Cloud console.
In this blog I’m going to deep dive into the Alibaba Cloud CDN, describing the service, how does it work, what are the common scenarios and the benefits. What is CDN? Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an easy and cost-effective way to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer speed. CDN has been …
My name is Ishita Mahajan and I am a Roopu Cloud Ambassador. In this blog post I will deep dive into the Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB). What is Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer? Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple applications, microservices, and containers hosted on ECS …
Gaurav Guruji is a Roopu Cloud Ambassador. On October 6, he recorded a video session explaining how to configure an Apache Web Server on Alibaba Cloud ECS Linux Server. It is a step by step guide in the Alibaba Cloud console. Follow Gaurav in his guide and learn by doing!
This Blog is all about the Alibaba Object Storage Service and Image processing performed on OSS objects . Image Processing is a great feature in OSS. What is Object Storage Service (OSS)? OSS is an Object Storage service provided by Alibaba Cloud. It is an encrypted and secure cloud storage service which stores, processes and …
In this guide I will give you an overview of the Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM) service including a console demo. What is Resource Access Management (RAM)? RAM is a Resource Access Management service provided by Alibaba Cloud that helps you to securely control access to the resources. RAM refers to a policy or …
This blog will help you understand what is a VPC and how it works in Alibaba Cloud. Additionally, I have created a step by step guide on how to deploy it using the Alibaba Cloud console. Objectives What is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and how it works Plan and design a VPC Network Deploy …
During the covid-19 times, we have seen the importance of technology both in the pharmaceutical industry and in research laboratories. In this blog post, I will explain the most common issues in the industry and which solutions does Alibaba Cloud offer. Common issues in the pharma industry The pharma industry is moving from the era …
Introduction The situation that is happening worldwide with the pandemic is something horrible, not only from an economic perspective but also from a human perspective. On the other hand, this pandemic has forced businesses, governments, institutions, and employees to change the way they work and ultimately the way they live. In this blog I will …
We can teach you how good and easy to use is Alibaba Cloud, but nothing can be accomplished if you don’t actually have an account. Since many of you asked me me about the process, I created a step by step guide on how to create a free-tier Alibaba Cloud account. Step by step guide …
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This article will be about the “Alibaba Cloud Landing Zone”. Many customers ask us about this quite often and we thought it was a good idea to write a bit more about it and show potential customers how it can help both individuals and companies to achieve success by starting off on the Alibaba Cloud …
Requirements Last week, I was designing a cloud solution in the Alibaba Cloud platform for a customer. Nothing special, just creating a simple networking layer with a VPC, virtual switches, and route tables. The requirement was just one: the environment cannot be accessed from the Internet and have no access to the internet. In other words, a …
