Alibaba Cloud ISV Solutions for Cloud Migration

Alibaba Cloud offers Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) the optimal cloud migration solutions to ready your cloud business with the shortest path.

Overview

Since many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are migrating to the cloud, ISVs are also transforming from traditional IT services to more elastic, easy-to-use, cost-efficient cloud services to serve their SME customers better. Alibaba Cloud supports SME business successes and understands what they value most. Based on the best practices while working with SME customers, Alibaba Cloud’s optimal ISV cloud migration solutions curate the necessary products to pave the shortest path to your new cloud business. It provides your SME customers with greater cost savings and faster time-to-market.

Why Alibaba Cloud?

  • Cost Savings

    Alibaba Cloud offers Free ECS Instances to help ISVs save operating costs. ISVs can also get started for free with different cloud products from Free Trials.

  • Reliable Global Networking

    Alibaba Cloud operates 87 availability zones in 29 regions worldwide. You can leverage the global cloud network to help your customers deploy applications worldwide with a few clicks.

  • Comprehensive Security and Compliance

    Alibaba Cloud provides reliable and secure cloud products and top-notch compliance services to help you and your customers comply with local regulations effortlessly and economically.

  • Fast Cloud Migration

    This solution is designed for quick wins and packs up the necessary cloud products that ISVs need to start cloud businesses, making your cloud migration faster.

ISV Cloud Migration with Three Steps

Set up a Global Cloud Network
Set up and accelerate reliable global networks.
Migrate Data to the Cloud
Migrate servers, databases, and data to the cloud.
Deploy Web Applications
Host website and web applications on the cloud.

Step1 – Set Up a Global Cloud Networking

Choose the desirable solution according to your challenges.

Challenges and Solutions

Building a reliable global cloud network is the key to the ISV business. Alibaba Cloud can help with four steps. First, create network resources including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and vSwitch. Second, configure network security policies based on the routing plans and subnet access control list (ACL). Third, create resources such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Server Load Balancer (SLB), and deploy the applications on the cloud. Last, configure policies, such as resource whitelists, to enhance security.

See Building an Auto Scaling System on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.

Solution Highlights

  • Quick Deployment - Set up your global cloud networking in less than 20 minutes with four simple steps
    High Elasticity - Adjust your network resources dynamically according to your different stages
    Cost Efficiency - Only pay for public network resources without investing in internal network resources

Virtual Private Cloud

A secure environment for resources and operations

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Elastic IP Address

An independent public IP resource that decouples ECS and public IP resources

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NAT Gateway

Flexible usage of network resources and access to VPC

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Server Load Balancer

A product that balances traffic among multiple instances

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Data Transfer Plan

Easy-to-use and cost-effective transfer plans

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Cloud Firewall

A SaaS firewall for network security

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Challenges and Solutions

Fast-growing applications bring ISVs new challenges on the cross-region network quality, deployment, and cost. This solution speeds up your global network and applications. You can fill in the information of your business to receive the suggested acceleration plans according to your business needs. This way, you can purchase instances and bandwidth packages according to the plans. Then, add the client access zone for acceleration, add ports and protocols for monitoring, and configure services for the target backend and CNAME for DNS. Lastly, test the acceleration result.

Solution Highlights

  • Simple Deployment - Deploy Global Accelerator with a few clicks in minutes
    Global Acceleration - Deploy acceleration nodes worldwide regardless of domain name location
    Guaranteed Security - Seamlessly integrate with CDN and Anti-DDoS for a secure cloud network

Global Accelerator

Guaranteed bandwidth and high reliability for applications

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Alibaba Cloud DNS

A secure, fast, stable, and reliable authoritative DNS service

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Web Application Firewall

Real-time monitoring of servers to ensure high availability

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Anti-DDoS

A comprehensive to intelligently defend against DDoS attacks

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CDN

A scalable and high-performance content delivery service

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Challenges and Solutions

Traditional global networks cannot be expanded flexibly according to business changes, and low-quality networks slows down application access and affects the business experience. This solution uses the Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) and Smart Access Gateway (SAG) to connect your businesses on and off the cloud. Choose the SAG devices and bandwidth, install SAG, and deploy the network locally. Then, activate SAG on the cloud and finish the configuration. Next, create and load the CEN instances, configure settings (such as cross-region bandwidth), and test the inter-connections of the network. Lastly, you can choose to configure the monitoring settings.

See Building a Global Network Architecture on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.

Solution Highlights

  • High Elasticity - Scalable network with fast deployment in minutes
    High Reliability - Automatic optimization for redundant connections
    Multi-Access Support - Diverse connections support including mobile, virtual private networks, and 4G

Cloud Enterprise Network

Enterprise-class global network

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Smart Access Gateway

A cloud deployment solution for connecting to Alibaba Cloud

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Express Connect

High-bandwidth, reliable, secure, and private connections between different environments

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Step 3 – Deploy on the Cloud

Challenges and Solutions

ISVs want to spend less time and resources providing web services to more customers. This requires sharing public resources with high elasticity. This solution helps you build an ECS server with cPanel and Plesk, deploy multiple websites on the same server, and store files on OSS. All data are distributed to different websites through EIP, Plesk, and cPanel. When traffic increases significantly, you can build a new pay-as-you-go ECS server with cPanel and Plesk to migrate some websites to the new server and modify DNS to the new EIP. When traffic decreases, you can migrate the websites back to the original ECS server and release the newly built server to save costs.

Solution Highlights

  • Easy Website Registration and Design - Register a domain and start your website with exclusive website design providers
    High Elasticity - Combine your business with elastic computing, storage, networking as needed

Elastic Compute Service

Elastic and secure virtual cloud servers to cater all your cloud hosting needs

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Elastic IP Address

An independent public IP resource that decouples ECS and public IP resources for flexible management

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Alibaba Cloud DNS

A secure, fast, stable, and reliable authoritative DNS service

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Domain Search

A search function to find the domain name that fits your needs

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Challenges and Solutions

When launching a new business online, customers look for agile and cost-effective deployments. The goal is to scale up the business rapidly if it is well-received by the market and minimize financial losses in case of failure. This solution provides great flexibility for new business ventures. It helps you set up an application based on separate application and database servers quickly, supports automatic failover and horizontal scaling to improve application availability, and allows you to set up efficient caching to speed up website loading and reduce latency.

See Setting up a Typical Application Deployment for New Businesses on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.

Solution Highlights

  • Quick Deployment - Set up an application based on separate servers
    High Availability - Enable automatic failover and horizontal scaling
    High Performance - Set up efficient caching to speed up website loading and reduce latency

Object Storage Service

An encrypted and secure cloud storage service

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CDN

A scalable and high-performance content delivery service for accelerated distribution of content to users across the globe

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Auto Scaling

A service to automatically adjust computing resources

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Server Load Balancer

A product that balances traffic among multiple instances

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Alibaba Cloud Adheres to International Security and Compliance Standards

Alibaba Cloud adheres to domestic and international information security standards, as well as industry requirements. This includes undergoing regular third-party evaluations and reviews from numerous certification authority agencies.
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  • GDPR
  • PCI DSS
  • MPAA
  • DJCP MLPS
  • CSA STAR
  • AICPA

Alibaba Cloud Best Practices for Cloud Migration

Best Practice

Building an Auto Scaling System on Alibaba Cloud

Deploy your application on an auto scaling architecture, which automatically adjusts the compute capacity in response to traffic fluctuations.

Best Practice

Building a Global Network Architecture on Alibaba Cloud

Build a global network architecture that ensures smooth and secure communications between different regions.

Best Practice

Migrating Your Servers to Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service

Migrate your workloads from on-premises data center or a third-party cloud virtual machine to an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance.

Best Practice

Migrating Data from an On-premises Store to Alibaba Cloud

Migrate data from an on-premises store to a NAS file system that is mounted on an ECS instance. Utilize Internet shared bandwidth to enable rapid data transmission at affordable costs.

Best Practice

Setting up a Typical Application Deployment for New Businesses on Alibaba Cloud

Launch a new business online in an efficient, economical, highly scalable, and flexible manner with high performance.

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