Education
Indonesia
SME/Startup
"Through this partnership, we found a reliable ally to support our growth and innovation journey."
GetCourse
About
GetCourse
GetCourse
GetCourse is an EdTech company providing a software platform for teaching enthusiasts, from enterprises to online course creators. It empowers them to build self-hosted online academies using an economical business model and industry-specific software.
The GetCourse platform offers an all-in-one solution for delivering online courses, training materials, and webinars, eliminating the need for multiple tools. Key features include seamless course hosting, easy payment processing, high-standard student or client relationships, and continuous support.
GetCourse's business-oriented approach focuses on self-hosted branding, offering creators full control over their student base and direct communication. The platform provides professional tools for creating branded online academies in various niches, from healthcare to business. With over 18,000 online academies, GetCourse fosters a thriving community where success is achievable through its methodology and tools based on in-depth experience.
Challenges
GetCourse was expanding quickly and needed a more agile and robust cloud infrastructure to meet its dynamic business requirements. Additionally, the enterprise struggled due to slow support and inflexible resource availability imposed by existing cloud vendors.
Essentially, they sought a cloud provider that could offer superior support and assistance while also providing cost-effective and flexible cloud resource allocation for their business needs.
Why Alibaba Cloud
For GetCourse, Alibaba Cloud became the optimal choice for a cloud infrastructure provider. Alibaba Cloud’s in-depth understanding of the cloud computing industry and high standards for reliability meant that the integration and deployment process of cloud infrastructure was efficient and effective.
GetCourse’s decision to partner with Alibaba Cloud was further reinforced by responsive support and comprehensive solutions to address specific concerns. Alibaba Cloud's competitive pricing and discounts ensured cost-effectiveness and scalability for the GetCourse Platform's operations. This partnership provided GetCourse with a reliable ally to support its growth and drive innovation.
Architecture
GetCourse Platform’s architecture relies on Alibaba Cloud’s Elastic Compute Service (ECS) as its foundational element, supporting both application and database servers. Object Storage Service (OSS) further complements the architecture by efficiently storing large amounts of documents.
For efficient networking, Elastic IP Address (EIP) is implemented to facilitate HTTP/HTTPS traffic and monitoring, enhancing connectivity and performance monitoring capabilities. Additionally, the NAT Gateway features enable internet access for virtualizations without external IP addresses, ensuring seamless communication with external services.
Notice: ApsaraDB for Redis and Tair have been merged and renamed to Tair (Redis® OSS-compatible) since September 2024.
Key Results
This powerful partnership has been instrumental for the GetCourse Platform to support its 4.6 million active students with the online education tools they need.
Alibaba Cloud provides GetCourse with responsive assistance and flexible resource allocation to enable 18,000 big and small online education projects and over 228,000 online courses on the GetCourse platform.
Alibaba Cloud's cost-effective offerings have played a pivotal role in supporting GetCourse's sustainable growth trajectory. By optimizing its IT investments and leveraging competitive pricing models, GetCourse has effectively managed operational costs.
Moreover, with the ability to seamlessly scale resources up or down based on demand, GetCourse could handle surges in traffic and accommodate rapid expansion without compromising performance or reliability.
Looking Forward
The current focus of the partnership between GetCourse and Alibaba Cloud centers on ensuring stability and fault-tolerance, tailored to GetCourse Platform's specific use case. Keen to foster a mutually beneficial relationship and drive shared innovation, GetCourse Platform remains open to exploring Alibaba Cloud's broader product offerings. Through this collaboration, both parties envision a long-term partnership that facilitates mutual growth and success.
Featured Products
EIPs are independent public IP address resources, which allow you to decouple public IP addresses from ECS instances and facilitate management.
Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.
Elastic and secure virtual cloud servers to cater all your cloud hosting needs.
A NAT gateway enables multiple instances within a virtual private cloud (VPC) to communicate with the Internet or private networks. Custom SNAT and DNAT rules can be created to help you use network resources in a flexible manner.
A fully-managed Apache Kafka service to help you quickly build data pipelines for your big data analytics.
ApsaraDB for Redis includes the community version of Redis and the enterprise version of Tair (fully compatible with Redis), which supports primary-secondary, clustering and read-write separation architectures, low latency, high throughput and elastic scalability, and provides real-time diagnostic capabilities for large hot keys. Tair offers a variety of series to meet different scenarios of price/performance requirements, as well as global multi-live, data flashback, hot key query optimization, and rich data structure, enabling online data business with large-scale high-performance requirements.
ApsaraDB for ClickHouse is a distributed column-oriented database service that provides real-time analysis. ApsaraDB for ClickHouse is high-performance and easy to use. ApsaraDB for ClickHouse meets various enterprise requirements. It is widely used in traffic analysis, marketing analysis, behavior analysis, crowd division, customer profiles, agile BI, data marts, network monitoring, distributed services, and link monitoring.
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Snapshot
Alibaba Cloud helped GetCourse deploy a scalable, robust, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure capable of meeting its dynamic business requirements and empowering teaching enthusiasts with the ability to build self-hosted online academies powered by the cloud.
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