This topic describes the features of Edge Node Service (ENS).
Supported services
Category | Description |
Computing | |
Network | VPC Elastic network interface (ENI) |
Storage | Local disk Snapshot |
Image | |
Security | Network ACL |
Cross-node network | Leased line SDWAN |
Features
Feature | Description |
Easy-to-access polymorphic computing capabilities | Polymorphic computing: provides a complete suite of computing services such as virtual machines, edge containers, bare metal instances, bare metal hosting, and heterogeneous computing. |
Comprehensive IaaS solution: provides converged network services including classic network, VPC, ELB, EIP, and NAT Gateway, and storage services including cloud disk, collaborative EOS solutions, and collaborative NAS solutions. You can use the services or features based on your business requirements. | |
End-to-end orchestration and deployment: deploys and associates computing, storage, and network resources in a centralized manner to help build an out-of-the-box edge infrastructure. | |
Scenario-specific solutions | Centralized management of resources: The advanced distributed system architecture lets you obtain resources for edge nodes across regions and Internet service providers (ISPs) with a few clicks. The system intelligently selects edge nodes and provisions the resources within seconds. You can implement batch operations and push-button scaling of edge computing power. |
Computing-network integration and multi-point collaboration: Computing resources are provisioned at multiple nodes in minutes. Cloud-edge synergy, edge-edge synergy, and edge-device synergy are supported to help customers build a hybrid technological base for distributed cloud-based services. The Internet and leased line transport channels provide secure, high-quality, and stable distributed node networking services, implement collaborative scheduling of computing resources, improve communication security, and reduce data transmission costs. | |
Cloud-based and native multiboxing solutions meet the diverse scenarios such as cloud gaming, cloud applications, and cloud rendering. The solutions support heterogeneous computing based on ARM+Android and x86+Windows. The solutions are compatible with existing applications without further adaption or optimization. Multiboxing allows multiple games to run on a single instance at the same time to improve resource utilization. | |
Wide-coverage distributed infrastructure | Global coverage and gradual distribution: ENS is built on top of more than 3,200 Alibaba Cloud CDN points of presence (POPs) that cover all regions and ISPs in China and more than 70 countries and regions outside China. More than 900 POPs are launched outside China, and cloud migration is provided in the last mile. |
High-quality networks and improved coverage: High-level data centers of ISPs support real-time network detection and troubleshooting. ENS provides over 99.9% network reliability and an end-to-end latency under 20 milliseconds. |