How to achieve resource efficient operation maintenance and cost analysis

01 Problems in enterprise resource management

With the improvement of enterprise IT capability maturity and the continuous expansion of cloud resources, enterprises need flexible, fast and convenient resource management methods to cope with the increasing number of cloud resources and frequently changing business scenarios.

With the development of the enterprise, the number of resources on the cloud of the enterprise continues to increase. The cloud resources are distributed in multiple regions and types, and the perspective of ledger is differentiated. The rapid management scenario becomes more and more important. Labels are necessary for large customers to manage resources in batches; Label is an important means of human, financial and material management; A grouping tool for pulling cloud products horizontally.

02 Efficient implementation of resource operation and maintenance path

The figure above shows the logical path to achieve efficient resource management. When an enterprise needs to quickly find a batch of problematic resources, it can temporarily mark the batch of resources with labels.

Enterprises need to confirm the purpose of resource operation and maintenance based on problems, scenarios and values. Take the process and technology as the implementation guarantee, through demand research, data design and data sorting. According to the survey results, relevant labels are designed to determine the direction of data use and the visible range of data.

In terms of business use, enterprises need to focus on the operation and maintenance path of resources, ensure information security, and control the operation and maintenance costs within a reasonable range.

The use of cloud tags is mainly divided into three stages.

The first stage is to design on demand, use on demand, and be business-oriented and understandable;

The second stage is rapid iteration, accurate use, and large-scale reuse of data;

The third stage is automation, which can derive data and make the value of data resources measurable.

03 Practice of efficient operation and maintenance and cost analysis

In order to help users realize the efficient operation and maintenance of resources and make labels more standardized. At present, Alibaba Cloud's tag policy function is free and open for use.

When a user creates or marks a resource through the console or API, if it does not meet the specifications of the label policy, the resource cannot be produced or the label binding fails.

After resource production, the tag strategy monitors the resource configuration information for resource detection in time; If it is found that the label policy does not conform to the specification, a non-conformance report will be generated; If automatic repair is set, the nonconforming resources will be repaired.

Tags can not only be used for resource operation and maintenance, but also for refined permission management. For enterprise project developers, users can give different permissions according to different identities.

In addition, enterprises can also use labels to view the allocation of resource costs from multiple dimensions for cost optimization.

04 Scene label design practice

The label must consider the business needs and take the business data as the carrier. The business is connected with related operations to simplify complex problems. Enterprise label design needs to identify design objects, and then design object labels, scene labels, and application labels.

The label design of an enterprise must consider the actual business needs, and its purpose is to simplify complex problems.

The design objects of labels generally include people, objects and their relationship. Among them, as the object of label design, people usually have initiative and are the initiator of relationship.

As the design object of the label, the object is passive and usually the receiver of the relationship. The relationship between the two reflects the direct relationship and connection between the two entities.

Take the live e-commerce precision marketing scenario as an example, marketing activities are the relationship between customers and goods. Among them, the customer is the initiator of the relationship and has a certain degree of initiative. As the receiver of this relationship, the commodity has a certain degree of passivity. It can be seen that users can simplify complex marketing problems through labels.

Label design can quickly improve the data management system of enterprises. Solve the problems of enterprises' lack of user portrait and label system, inadequate operation, high operation cost, and low efficiency of operation data acquisition. From the practical point of view, simplify the complex business problems.

As shown in the above figure, in the live e-commerce precision marketing scenario, the customer's label design can be planned around its basic characteristics, preference characteristics, behavior habits and asset credit.

The label design of goods needs to be planned according to its basic characteristics, subordinate characteristics, marketing attributes, service attributes, comment attributes and other directions. The marketing relationship between goods and customers can be designed around basic characteristics, target characteristics, condition characteristics, process characteristics and effect characteristics.

In the process of label design, it is necessary to confirm the target and analyze the object, that is, the relationship between people. Then, identify the relevant indicators of the scenario, such as the customer's activity, the value generated by the product content, the customer's participation, the effectiveness of the message reminder, and so on.

To sum up, in label design, enterprises need to collect information about objects, resources and relationships from multiple dimensions. Among them, the common information of object information includes name, job number, location, process, behavior, preference, etc.

Among the resource information, the common ones are resource ID, IP, whether the resource function is monthly, whether it is monitored, whether it is audited, and finally whether the resource is available.

Among the relationship information, the common ones are related objects, related resource relationships, preparation timing conditions, order records, purchase records, purchase behavior, and so on.