This topic describes the benefits of Edge Node Service (ENS). Compared with self-managed services, Alibaba Cloud ENS provides benefits such as convenience, security, and reliability.
Benefits
Alibaba Cloud ENS provides the following benefits:
- Wide coverage: Node resources that are close to clients cover most regions and ISPs in China. This ensures low latency.
- Flexible billing: Edge computing resources support the pay-as-you-go method and dynamic scaling, without initial investment.
- Integration and openness: Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes and DevOps APIs are integrated. An open runtime environment and computing power specifications allow batch, visualized, and automated management.
- Security and reliability: Multi-tenant computing power, secure network isolation, Apsara Distributed Operating System, and excellent automated O&M capabilities ensure data security and reliability around the world.
Comparison with self-managed services
Compared with self-managed services, ENS provides benefits such as high elasticity, low cost, high reliability, and simple O&M.
Comparison with traditional services
ENS is an elastic cloud platform that provides computing, network, storage, and security on edge nodes based on the capabilities of cloud and edge computing technologies. ENS forms an end-to-end technical architecture with the central cloud and IoT devices. By migrating network forwarding, storage, computing, and intelligent data analysis to edge nodes, ENS reduces the response latency, loads in the cloud, and bandwidth costs. ENS also provides features such as global routing and computing power distribution.
Comparison with other services
Compared with other services, ENS provides benefits such as wide coverage and traffic localization.
Service | Location and coverage | Capability | Scenario |
ENS | All cities and Internet service providers (ISPs) | Distributed edge computing resources and low-latency network coverage | Wide network coverage and traffic localization |
Alibaba Cloud CDN | All cities and ISPs | Nearby content distribution | Content delivery |
Internet data center (IDC) | Single city and ISP | Physical machines and data center | Various local services |
Link IoT Edge | Industrial parks and community edge gateways | IoT edge platform, device access, local response, and cloud-device synergy | Smart manufacturing and smart parks |