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ENS:Benefits

Last Updated:Jan 26, 2024

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.

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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