Compared with traditional manual approaches, Compute Nest provides intelligent, efficient, secure, and reliable service delivery and operation experiences. This helps service providers enhance capabilities and reduce costs while improving user deployment efficiency and management convenience.
1. Intelligence and efficiency: Automated lifecycle management
Compute Nest integrates a series of underlying Alibaba Cloud product capabilities, providing service providers with an intelligent and streamlined service publishing and management platform that covers the entire service lifecycle (delivery, deployment, operation, etc.). This improves service delivery, deployment, and operation efficiency, resolves efficiency issues associated with traditional manual experience-dependent models, and reduces operational costs for service providers.
Benefits for service providers:
Standardized processes: Standardizes service delivery and deployment processes, enabling automated delivery and deployment without manual intervention.
Cost optimization: Users can subscribe to services independently, reducing the marginal delivery cost for service providers to nearly zero.
Stability assurance: Integrates Alibaba Cloud self-service and end-to-end detection capabilities, supporting one-click troubleshooting and intelligent self-healing, improving business stability.
Compute Nest provides users with a rich variety of software options, covering basic software such as databases, application software such as CRM, and professional software for dozens of industries including AI, gaming, manufacturing, and healthcare. Users can conveniently access needed services through Compute Nest's Service Catalog, Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, or directly via service creation links from service providers.
Benefits for users:
Ready-to-use deployment: Supports integrated, automated delivery of software and cloud resources, eliminating the need to learn complex deployment manuals and quickly completing environment setup.
Unified resource management: Centralized management of all resources (network, compute, storage), reducing management complexity.
Multi-service coordination: Centralized control of multiple software services, improving resource scheduling and operation efficiency.
2. Security and reliability: End-to-end risk governance
Benefits for service providers:
Secure network channel: No need to manually modify security groups or exchange logon credentials, achieving trusted interconnection between service providers and users through simplified network design.
Permission isolation: Completes authorization between service providers and users based on Alibaba Cloud security authorization and automatic authentication mechanisms, establishing secure operation channels between them.
Traceable operations: All operations are completely recorded, with resource operations audited through ActionTrail logs and instance operations preserved through real-time screen recordings, ensuring operation processes are secure, compliant, and fully traceable, avoiding service disputes.
Benefits for users:
Secure authorization mechanism: Provides secure on-demand authorization methods, avoiding high-risk operations such as password exchange compared to granting service providers RAM users or logon credentials.
Dedicated operation channel: Compute Nest provides a dedicated secure operation channel without requiring remote logon or network whitelists, protecting asset and data security.
Log audit: All authorization and operation records are permanently retained, ensuring the security of user assets and data.
3. Transparent billing: Precise budget management
Cost prediction: Before creating a service instance, the system automatically displays resource fee details (such as ECS, RDS, storage, etc.), allowing users to align with their budget.
Cost aggregation: After deployment, Compute Nest filters and displays the historical costs of resources used by the software in a unified manner. This makes it convenient for users to manage expenses for business systems, increases cost transparency, and reduces accounting costs.
4. Free trial: Improving user conversion
Compute Nest provides a free trial function for services, with Alibaba Cloud providing free cloud resources and service providers offering free software licenses. Users can try software for free, reducing decision-making risks for software procurement, with trial periods lasting up to 30 days.
Some software does not support free trial. The instructions of service providers prevail.
5. Ecosystem support: Rich software selection
Extensive scenario coverage: Provides basic and application software such as databases and CRM, supporting industry solutions for AI, gaming, smart home, manufacturing, healthcare, and more.
Multi-channel access: Users can quickly obtain services through Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, Compute Nest recommendation pages, or direct links from service providers.
6. Comparison
The following table describes the advantages of Compute Nest over traditional solutions.
Item | Compute Nest | Traditional solution |
Service delivery | Standardizes delivery and automates service deployment processes with high efficiency and stable delivery quality. | Relies on manual operations to complete service deployment, with low efficiency and delivery quality easily affected by the skill level of delivery personnel. |
No manual intervention required, reducing delivery costs. | Relies on manual delivery, affected by manpower and delivery duration, resulting in high delivery costs. | |
Service operation | Reports faults in real time without waiting for user feedback, enabling quick response and proactive risk prevention. | Relies on users to report faults, with service providers responding passively to issues. |
After users subscribe to services, Compute Nest automatically completes authorization between service providers and users. During operation procedures, service providers do not need to exchange logon credentials, as authorization and authentication are automated without manual configuration. | Logon credentials need to be transmitted in plaintext or even stored. Credentials can easily be leaked due to accidents or improper management, making it difficult to ensure user security. | |
Simplified network connectivity design eliminates network connection issues between service providers and users during operations. | Requires manual modification of security and network configurations, opening and closing operation channels, which is cumbersome and prone to operational errors that affect network and business security. | |
Supports one-click diagnostics of cloud platform health and provides convenient operation channels for application diagnostics, improving operation efficiency and significantly reducing business downtime. | During fault localization, communication between service providers and users is time-consuming. Before troubleshooting, service providers need to familiarize themselves with the user's cloud platform and application platform, then diagnose the fault, resulting in lengthy troubleshooting and extended business downtime. | |
Service processes can be audited and traced, creating trustworthy enterprise services. | Operation processes are difficult to record and trace. When issues occur, users find it difficult to audit and cannot clearly define responsibility boundaries. | |
Reduces operation costs. | Complex operation processes result in high operation costs. | |
Service management | From service delivery onward, each touchpoint with users is uniformly managed and followed up, ensuring user experience. For multi-user service management, Compute Nest provides unified user follow-up solutions, improving operational efficiency. | Relies on users to proactively contact service providers, who respond passively based on user needs, unable to provide better experiences and services to users. |