Bastionhost offers multiple editions to accommodate different business scenarios. This topic helps you understand the differences between editions and compare parameters of different types in the edition selection reference table to help you make informed decisions quickly.
This topic explains only some core differences. For more information about features in different editions, see Feature comparison.
Overview
When you select an edition based on your business scenario, focus on the following key factors:
The following are only basic classification items. You can refer to them in combination with your business situation and product features.
Compliance and security requirements
The Basic Edition, Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition, and Chinese Cryptographic Algorithm Edition all have capabilities to help with compliance with security regulations, with slight differences in specific scenarios:
If you have Chinese cryptographic compliance requirements, choose the Chinese Cryptographic Algorithm Edition.
If you want to configure higher O&M security protection for core business assets, such as disaster recovery for single point of failure and password key rotation, choose the Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition.
If you only have basic O&M security requirements, such as O&M approval, command whitelist and blacklist, and behavior audit, choose the Basic Edition.
Asset types
If you have database, web application, and other types of assets in addition to host type (Linux and Windows) assets, choose the Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition.
If you only have host type (Linux and Windows) assets and only need basic O&M security capabilities, choose the Basic Edition.
Asset distribution
If your assets are distributed across Alibaba Cloud, other public clouds, or on-premises data centers with physical isolation of network domains (such as VPC networks that are not connected or cross-network environments), choose the Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition. This edition supports cross-network communication through network domain proxy server configuration, meeting the unified access and O&M management requirements for distributed assets in multicloud and hybrid deployment scenarios.
If your assets are concentrated in internal network environments with network connectivity, such as Alibaba Cloud, and you only need to meet basic O&M audit and access control requirements (such as basic permission management and operation log retention), choose the Basic Edition.
Edition selection reference
The following table provides recommendations for product selection from the perspectives of applicable scenarios, non-functional scenario dimensions, and functional scenario dimensions:
Edition | Basic Edition | Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition | Chinese Cryptographic Algorithm Edition | References |
Scenarios | Suitable for O&M security requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises (50-500 hybrid assets), providing fine-grained O&M access control, O&M behavior management, and full O&M audit, which can meet basic O&M security management requirements. | Suitable for enterprises with higher O&M business security requirements or larger business scale (more than 500 assets), such as government and enterprise, finance, game, online education, information technology, etc. The Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition has more sufficient performance and enterprise-level scenario configurations to meet higher business O&M security requirements. | Suitable for industries that require compliance with Chinese cryptographic standards (such as government, education, etc.), meeting the requirements for Chinese cryptographic algorithm substitution. | |
Non-functional scenarios |
| In addition to Basic Edition capabilities:
| In addition to Enterprise Dual-Engine Edition capabilities:
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Functional scenarios |
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