Whale Cloud | Aspara Stack

Overview

Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack is an open, unified, and trusted full-stack cloud solution designed for enterprise-level customers that require a highly capable and flexible hybrid cloud solution.

Apsara Stack uses the proprietary Apsara Distributed Operating System developed in house at Alibaba Cloud, which offers a highly reliable cloud environment to ensure your business continuity.

Benefits

Unparalleled scalability

Apsara Stack supports hyper-scale clusters that have more than 10,000 servers in each region, meeting the requirement of operating large business systems and applications to support large numbers of users.

High reliability

Apsara Stack employs a multi-layered security architecture and uses disaster recovery mechanisms developed in house at Alibaba Cloud to safeguard availability, confidentiality, and integrity of customers' systems and data.

Industry leading product coverage

Apsara Stack offers over 70 cloud products, including storage, DB, network, middleware, big-data, AI, security, selected vertical application, cloud management, etc., which translates to most comprehensive coverage of enterprise cloud computing needs.

Financial grade multi-region solution

Apsara Stack is widely used in the financial sector, including powering Ant Financial. Awarding-winning Apsara Stack financial cloud paves solid foundation to bring inclusive financial service to the world.

Unparalleled scalability

High reliability

Industry leading product coverage

Financial grade multi-region solution

Features

Infrastructure

Apsara Stack provides a wide variety of basic virtual resources, such as virtual computing, virtual network, and virtual scheduling. The main products include Elastic Compute Service, Virtual Private Cloud, Server Load Balancer, Container Service, Auto Scaling, and Key Management Service.

Storage products

Apsara Stack provides various storage products for different storage objects. The main products include Object Storage Service (OSS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Table Store, and Apsara File Storage for HDFS (HDFS).

Internet middleware and applications

Apsara Stack provides middleware services and can host various customer applications. This facilitates the conversion of applications to services and encourages applications to evolve into a microservice architecture.

Database

Apsara Stack provides diversified and interoperable data engines. The main products include ApsaraDB for RDS, KVStore for Redis, KVStore for Memcache, ApsaraDB for MongoDB, ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, Data Transmission Service (DTS), and Data Management Service.

Big data processing

Apsara Stack provides various functions of big data analysis, application, and visualization to maximize data value. The main products include MaxCompute, DataWorks, Realtime Compute, Quick BI, E-MapReduce, DataQ - Smart Tag Service, Dataphin, and Apsara Bigdata Manager.

Artificial intelligence

Apsara Stack provides a machine learning algorithm platform based on the distributed computing engine developed by Alibaba Cloud, such as Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI).

Security

Apsara Stack provides an all-around protection from underlying communication protocols to upper-layer applications, which guarantees the security of your access and data. For example, the product Apsara Stack Security.

Infrastructure

Storage products

Internet middleware and applications

Database

Big data processing

Artificial intelligence

Apsara Stack provides a machine learning algorithm platform based on the distributed computing engine developed by Alibaba Cloud, such as Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI).

Security

Business Scenarios

Large enterprise/organization IT infrastructure base

Large enterprise/organization that cannot move to public cloud due to data sovereignty or regulation restrictions can leverage on Apsara Stack’s industry leading product coverage to access public cloud-like feature and capacity.

Business Scenarios

Large enterprise/organization IT infrastructure base

Aspiring CSP digital transformation foundation

Aspiring CSPs that aim to mobilize business assets and operation models can gain insights and capabilities via Apsara Stack’s big-data & AI suite. Capitalizing on vast amounts of valuable data for benefits to customers and shareholders.

Mission-critical financial application platform

Proven with Alipay, world-leading fintech arm of Alibaba Group, Apsara Stack’s unique capability to provide financial-grade and cloud native high availability solution is the best foundation for your most demanding financial workloads on cloud.

Sovereign state cloud

For administrations that look to cloud computing to better serve citizens and reap social and economic benefits, Apsara Stack is the only proven, fully functional true private cloud that can be operated locally and managed by own staff.