We are proud to announce that we have joined Rahi (https://rahi.io/). We bring our #AlibabaCloud, #TencentCloud, #AWSChina, & #AzureChina competencies to Rahi, complementing their existing portfolio of cloud services, data center infrastructure, IT infrastructure, professional and managed services, unified communications, and global services. Through the merger, we are expanding our presence globally with 40+ offices …
This week we have achieved a new goal by delivering our 60th instructor-led Alibaba Cloud training and training more than 2,500 students worldwide. This positions us as the world leader in Alibaba Cloud training providers. This would not have been possible without the effort and dedication of our cloud trainers and the support from Alibaba Cloud. We …
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Alibaba Cloud is a cloud provider that offers several types of services with the possibility of remote access. With an increase in remote workforces worldwide, cloud computers can support hybrid working solutions for clients by allowing them to access their work remotely from any device while minimizing the risks. To do that, the company is …
Abstract: The article describes how to join the Alibaba Cloud for Students program. Alibaba Cloud for Students Program Are you a university or a college student aspiring to become a professional in the cloud computing space? Alibaba Cloud has a global initiative that provides the students with exclusive access to courses, certifications, and selected cloud …
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What is Hybrid Cloud A hybrid cloud combines two or more cloud environments. Public and private clouds are combined in hybrid cloud installations, which may also involve on-premise legacy technology. For a cloud to be genuinely hybrid, these many cloud environments must be tightly integrated, basically acting as one united infrastructure. At least one public …
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What is OSS? Alibaba Cloud’s Object Storage Service (OSS) is a secure, cost-effective, and high-durability cloud storage service. It allows you to upload and save massive volumes of data to the cloud. OSS is built to provide data durability of 99.9999999999 percent (twelve nines) and service availability of 99.995 percent. RESTful API activities are supported …
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What is OSS Object Storage Service (OSS) is a secure, low-cost, and durable cloud storage service provided by Alibaba Cloud. You can store large amounts of data in the cloud. OSS is designed for 99.9999999999% (12 nines) of data durability and 99.995% of service availability. OSS is similar to AWS S3 for those familiar with …
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What is ApsaraDB RDS ApsaraDB RDS is an Alibaba Cloud-based online database service that is robust, dependable, and scalable. It is built on top of the Apsara Distributed File System and high-performance SSDs. MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB TX are all supported by ApsaraDB RDS. ApsaraDB RDS offers a range of disaster recovery, backup, …
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What is NAT Gateway NAT Gateway is a Network Address Translation (NAT) service. Alibaba Cloud provides two types of NAT gateways: Internet NAT gateways and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) NAT gateways. Internet NAT gateways provide public IP address translation services. VPC NAT gateways provide private IP address translation services. You can specify a NAT gateway …
Back in 2020, Roopu Cloud signed a contract with the Alibaba Cloud Academy and became an official Alibaba Cloud partner, enabling us to create and publish content related to the Alibaba Cloud certifications. Roopu Cloud offers Alibaba Cloud Practice Tests that are reviewed, verified, and approved by the Alibaba Cloud team. This ensures the quality …
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Develop in-demand cloud computing skills and take your career to new heights Join Our Cloud Bootcamp Now What Is a Cloud Bootcamp? Our cloud Bootcamp comprises short-term, intense training sessions to help you develop practical, industry-ready cloud computing skills. If you’re a beginner in cloud computing and want to transform yourself into a highly paid, …
On-demand classroom training programs to learn industry-leGet active, hands-on learning experience with best-in-class virtual training labs What Are Virtual Labs? Instructor-led classroom training works similarly to traditional in-person training programs. Our expert instructors train you in person, enabling you to A virtual lab is a visual learning environment focused on a live, hands-on learning experience. …
On-demand classroom training programs to learn industry-leading cloud skills and best practices What Is Classroom Training? Instructor-led classroom training works similarly to traditional in-person training programs. Our expert instructors train you in person, enabling you to interact directly with the instructors and communicate with them in real-time. Our classroom training programs offer networking, brainstorming, innovation, …
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Upskill yourself in the leading cloud technologies with our Alibaba Cloud virtual instructor-led training (VILT) What Is Virtual Instructor-Led Training? Virtual instructor-led training (VILT) is a mode of online learning that involves direct interaction between the instructor and learners. Unlike traditional online training programs that are self-paced, our VILT sessions offer a classroom-like digital experience. …
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This article describes Alibaba Cloud’s Network Attached Storage (NAS) service. Alibaba Cloud offers a distributed file system service with unlimited capacity and performance scaling to avoid the constraints of traditional file servers. In this article, we will learn more about the Alibaba Cloud’s Network Attached Storage (NAS) Service. What Is Alibaba Cloud’s Network Attached Storage …
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This article describes the different Anti-DDoS solutions provided by Alibaba Cloud. With the growing availability of attack tools and global botnets, the pool of possible attacks is larger than ever on the internet. Relying on humans to prevent and block attacks is simply not enough. With increased demand to deliver services or applications, more enterprises …
This article describes how to use Alibaba Cloud Backup Services to backup your infrastructure and data. What Are Alibaba Cloud Backup Services? It is always necessary to be able to ensure your business continuity whenever a problem occurs. Alibaba Cloud offers some services to ensure that you can back up your data properly anywhere at …
This article explains how to install and configure Docker on the Alibaba Cloud ECS instance. Docker is an open-source platform from the Moby Project that helps package the applications into containers and automate the deployment. You can deliver the application quickly since you can separate your applications from your infrastructure. Docker offers two versions: Docker …
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In this article, we are going to learn how to access your desktop anywhere with Alibaba Cloud EDS. You can download the PDF version here. As part of the Alibaba Cloud Community Day, Roopu Cloud was invited to participate, and Pablo Puig delivered a webinar talking about how to access your desktop anywhere with Alibaba …
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As public cloud adoption accelerates across all industries, traditional monitoring systems are evolving towards observability systems. From the data perspective, observability covers a larger breadth and depth of scope than just monitoring. Observability not only involves system metrics for monitoring alarms but also records the internal operations of the system. Standard monitoring data models inform …
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Starting with Kubernetes Running containerized applications in the cloud is no longer an optional offering but a requirement. Given the elasticity and efficiency of containers, most large companies have already made the jump. Kubernetes has taken the front runner position as the leading container solution. Today user base will no longer accept downtime. We, as …
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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 …
