Select the main decision points of the cloud computing server
Overall product capability of cloud platform
First of all, let’s talk about the overall architecture design of the general cloud platform, including IaaS basic services, application services, data services, cloud management platform and the capabilities of operation and maintenance, operation, multi-cloud management and so on. In order to ensure the stability of product quality and operation, the overall product architecture should follow the following selection principles (priority priority):
Security, reliability, stability, advanced nature, expansibility, openness and standardization, in which security needs to follow industry security standards, open design, authority separation, and minimize public security protection to ensure customer data center security. focus on ensuring network security, host security, virtualization security, data protection, is also the most important point for enterprises, followed by reliability In terms of content, the reliability of the cloud platform system includes three aspects: the overall system reliability, the reliability of management data or tenant data, and the reliability of a single device to ensure business continuity.
The focus of Cloud Computing Service platform
The security of the cloud platform is the top priority, but each manufacturer’s cloud platform has different priorities. For example, Ali, because of its obvious e-commerce background, pays more attention to its own business. Many cloud product functions are actually developed from the actual business. It has great advantages in the e-commerce industry, but it is also limited to most small and medium-sized enterprises. Tencent has a great advantage in games, and the technology in the game and video industry is very outstanding. There is great potential for the development of C-end customers, but will students who play games use Tencent Cloud? At present, most customers are related to government and enterprises in game companies. Huawei Cloud has put forward the slogan “do not touch applications, do not touch data”, which has become the highest standard of information security, which is one of the reasons why many large enterprises have moved to Huawei Cloud. In addition to system security, compared with Tencent Cloud and Aliyun, Huawei Cloud provides more security groups, virtual firewalls, cloud firewalls, security situational awareness, vulnerability scanning and so on.
CVM performance
Performance is also a key consideration, which has a direct impact on user experience and business availability. Let’s take a look at the parameter test comparison from the important metrics CPU and memory. (no disk comparison is made here, because both Tencent Cloud and Aliyun system explicitly limit disk IO, so the test is inaccurate and meaningless. Higher IO can be purchased reliably):
CPU performance: the following tests all use a single CPU. From the results, the CPU computing stability of the following four (and a comparison with Baidu Smart Cloud) is not poor. After all, they are all big technology companies. By comparison, Baidu Cloud and Huawei Cloud are better.
Memory performance: Huawei Cloud has the best memory performance, which should be related to Huawei’s hardware technology advantages. Tencent Cloud’s performance and stability are relatively poor. +
In terms of product function categories, you can directly go to the screenshots of each official website. By comparison, Huawei’s function category is more comprehensive, so when you don’t know how to select it at first, you can explore it from Huawei’s product category. Because you need all the functions, you can find other home products to compare prices or performance later. However, according to some data provided by procurement, there is little difference. If you use it personally, you can buy it when doing activities, and they can all be tried for free. There are quite a lot of activities at the end of the year, and whoring is really fragrant.
Detailed comparison of cloud computing service vendors
Ali Yun
Elastic computing is the core product of Aliyun, which includes nine services, including CVM, proprietary network, container service, auto scaling and load balancing, covering every choice of users. However, in the computing field, it focuses more on the underlying computing power and stability, especially the recently launched Dragon Technology Architecture, which is very similar to AWS’s Nitro, which breaks the gap between physical machines and virtual machines through advanced virtualization technology. Although Aliyun started later than AWS, the distance between Aliyun and AWS is shrinking, with a score of 4.5 points.
In terms of databases, Aliyun has enough sincerity to meet all the needs of users, whether the three major SQL databases commonly used by ordinary users (MsSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL) or the popular NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Memcache), all provide services to help users make better use of these capabilities. At the same time, Aliyun also provides corresponding products (PetaData, HBase and OceanBase) for the mass storage needed by big data. It is worth mentioning that the self-developed POLARDB, the official claim that the performance is 6 times that of the MySQL database, but there is a lack of support for the Oracle database, which should be bypassed from a third party. Give me four points.
In terms of storage, Aliyun provides a variety of storage modes, such as object storage, file storage, archive storage, block storage and table storage. The latest ESSD has a scary 1 million of random reads and writes, with a score of 4.
In terms of security, Aliyun has developed dozens of security products based on Cloud Shield, covering many functions such as WAF, content filtering, data encryption, DDoS protection, data risk control, and so on. Ali’s own security capability is very outstanding and is also guaranteed on the cloud. Give me a 4.5.
In terms of artificial intelligence, Aliyun, based on ET brain, has developed several AI solutions such as ET industrial brain, ET agricultural brain, ET environment brain, ET medical brain, and more than 50 AI products. Among the many product systems, Aliyun is focused on the development of projects. From the landing situation, it is also in the forefront of the domestic market. Give 4 points
In terms of CDN, the official figure given by Aliyun is 1500 + global nodes, with a bandwidth reserve of more than 120T. Considering that Aliyun itself is the largest CDN service provider of Youku and Taobao, it is still very excellent in terms of actual results, with a score of 5.
Aliyun does the best domain name service, and its domain name business comes from Wanwang, the largest domestic domain name supplier. It not only provides basic domain name registration service, but also provides domain name transaction, domain name reservation, domain name transfer and other services for domain name trading. Domain name management has achieved the excellent standard of a mature enterprise, giving 4 points.
Tencent Cloud
Tencent Cloud has invested a lot of energy in the provision of basic computing capabilities, including standard CVM, GPU CVM, FPGA CVM, etc., and invested a lot of research, development and practice in elastic computing to help users make better use of cloud computing with a score of 4.
In terms of databases, Tencent Cloud provides standard SQL databases and its unique TDSQL, Redis and Memcached for cache scenarios, standard NoSQL data MongoDB and some databases suitable for big data, such as HBase and distributed database DCDB. However, rich products lack supporting applications, and Tencent Cloud does not provide data migration services for users, which will lead to poor user experience. Give me three points.
In terms of storage, Tencent Cloud’s technology research and development is a little difficult. Only standard object storage and cloud disk services are provided, which is still insufficient for the requirements in some different scenarios. Give me three points.
In terms of security, Tencent Cloud provides a lot of scene-based security services relying on Dayu network security and Tianyu business security protection. In contrast, Tencent Cloud products tend to provide services to users in scenarios. Give me a 3.5.
In the case of big data, Tencent Cloud has developed three major systems: big data basic services, data applications and AI, providing a wealth of technical products. For users, they can better use cloud computing resources to meet their needs. Give 4 points
In terms of CDN, Tencent Cloud, relying on Tencent’s own business, provides more than 1000 acceleration nodes around the world to help users improve their user experience. However, for some reason, every change to Tencent Cloud’s CDN takes a long time to take effect. Give 4 points
In terms of domain names, Tencent Cloud is definitely a rising star. After acquiring DNSPOD, Tencent Cloud has taken advantage of its domain name resolution service. In terms of domain name registration, it has also become a platinum registrant of top-level commercial domain names and industry suffix domain names. Many long-tailed suffixes are really fragrant. I will give it a score of 53.
Huawei Cloud
In fact, the coexistence of HuaWeiYun and Aliyun is the best result. The competition between HuaWeiYun and Aliyun will restrict each other and will usher in a win-win result. For our customers, this result is the best. Therefore, I think Huawei develops as soon as possible. Huawei’s win-win ecological policy and principles are Huawei’s most powerful weapon. Huawei Cloud has created an open and win-win ecosystem. Always share business opportunities with partners Adhere to the customer-centered, from the beginning of the establishment, put forward the “upper do not touch the application, down do not touch the data, do not do equity investment” three-no principle; adhere to the commitment to let partners feel at ease to cooperate; adhere to provide dedicated services for partners, comprehensive empowerment. So far, Huawei Yun has developed more than 6000 partners.
Summary
Complete comparison score table of cloud server vendors
| Service | Ali Yun | Tencent Cloud | Huawei Cloud |
| Elastic calculation | 4.5 | 4 | 4.5 |
| Database | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Storage | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Safety | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 |
| artificial intelligence | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| CDN | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Domain name service | 4 | 5 | 3.5 |
Suggestions for cloud server vendors
Each cloud computing manufacturer has its own advantage business. AWS’s database, Azure’s elastic computing, Aliyun’s stability and AI capabilities, Tencent Cloud’s scene, Baidu Cloud’s artificial intelligence, and Huawei Cloud, which is not on the list, also have certain potential. By contrast, AWS and Aliyun have the most balanced capabilities and are the goals of the industry to catch up with.
Similarly, we also see too many deficiencies. Although the technology of AWS and Azure from overseas is strong, there are also some bad experiences, which can not give users an one-stop experience. The planning and quality of the products should be reconsidered. At the same time, we also see that cloud manufacturers pay more and more attention to the development of artificial intelligence, and AI has become an important decisive factor for enterprises to choose cloud manufacturers.
Cloud computing is different from the current Internet entrepreneurship, often light assets, heavy personnel. Cloud computing is fighting the battle of infrastructure. If you want to do cloud computing well, you need to invest a lot of money to improve the experience of your own products. If you do not have good blood transfusion ability, you may fall before the dawn of victory.
