Alibaba Cloud provides the cloud-native workflow from the initial loan application to data analytics. Offload database management to the cloud saves time and money. The scalability and security we provide are essential for your online applications.

For the loan business, we can store the borrower's profiles and needs, carry out precision marketing with less marketing expenses, and achieve more efficient capabilities, with more applications handling per day.

With AnalyticDB, you can observe and control risks after user login to protect against any abusive registration, malicious login, abnormal browsing, bot attacking, and suspicious transaction. By collecting user data, you can create a decision engine to set up backlist, whitelist, rules, models, and variable features, so it can efficiently handle fraud scenarios, such as account takeover and promotion abuse. You can also mitigate your account risk with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a tagging/notifying mechanism.

Solutions for Traffic Bursts

Database capacity often becomes a bottleneck for business growth during promotions and events.

Our flexible cloud database solutions are designed to deal with concurrent access pressure during traffic bursts. It takes 5 minutes (at most) to add read-only nodes to ApsaraDB for PolarDB and no more than 15 minutes to change the node configurations. You do not need to purchase expensive high-configuration databases in advance. When the players' access traffic exceeds the database capacity, you can quickly upgrade the database configurations to ensure smooth game operation. After the business traffic decline, the game enters the stable operation period. You can quickly downgrade the database configurations to ensure that your database architecture remains cost-effective.

Solutions for Server Merges

Server merge is usually required for multi-DB games during the stable operation period to reduce application and database costs and improve players' game experience.

Our cloud database solution can help you with server merges. It supports migrating data between different popular database instances in the gaming industry, such as MongoDB, MySQL, and Redis. Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS) helps ensure secure and reliable data transmission including schema migration, full migration, and incremental migration. The performance of full data migration can reach 70 Mbit/s and 200,000 TPS during peak hours. During maintenance, you only need to switch the data link strings, which reduces the time required for business migration. Throttling, 24/7 data accuracy validation, and failover can be applied during the migration, without affecting your business. DTS also supports resumable transmission.

As the data processing hub, Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics (DLA) enables join queries for database instances of different servers through the standard Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, which helps identify possible conflicts between player data after a server merge.