Compute Nest is a one-stop software cloudification platform that helps service providers and developers quickly transform traditional software into SaaS and provide standardized delivery solutions. It supports software- and cloud resource-based automated development and improves delivery, deployment, and management efficiency, delivering an efficient, convenient, and secure cloud experience.
Core features
Service providers
Full lifecycle management: provides comprehensive support for service construction, delivery, O&M, and operation:
Service construction: creates application delivery, O&M, and monitoring services based on standardized specifications to ensure service compliance and compatibility. Modular design supports on-demand combination, to flexibly adapt to business requirements.
Service delivery and management: The published services can be released to the Service Catalog or Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. Service providers can manage the service status throughout the lifecycle in the console, and users can directly subscribe to the published services.
Service O&M: After user authorization, you can remotely manage the operating environment and configuration of subscribed services.
Service operation: continuously iterates service features, supporting version upgrades, feature enhancements, and resource reconfiguration capabilities.
Users
Standardized service acquisition: Users subscribe to services published by multiple service providers (such as application delivery and O&M tools) by using a centralized portal, supporting one-stop service selection and rapid deployment.
Centralized service management: Users perform centralized monitoring, configuration adjustment, and resource management for subscribed services, reducing the O&M complexity of multi-service provider services.
Scenarios
Compute Nest addresses issues in cloud deployment such as complex resource templates, high configuration error rates, and difficult O&M by providing standardized delivery and automated O&M capabilities.
Application delivery: It achieves minute-level delivery by using predefined resource templates and fully automated deployment.
O&M: It provides centralized channels, full-link auditing, and intelligent troubleshooting, reducing permission risks and improving operation traceability.
It helps software service providers (such as SaaS and AI tool vendors), financial/medical enterprises requiring private deployment, and individual developers improve deployment efficiency, reduce O&M costs, and ensure cloud environment security.
For more information, see Application scenarios.
Benefits
Compute Nest provides an intelligent, end-to-end service management solution for service providers and users, significantly improving efficiency and reducing usage costs.
Benefits for service providers: Compute Nest provides a standardized service publishing and management platform by integrating with Alibaba Cloud's underlying capabilities (such as automated delivery, intelligent fault self-healing, and full-link monitoring), enabling automated deployment based on software and cloud resources. Service providers can automate service delivery with almost zero marginal delivery costs. In addition, intelligent O&M ensures service stability. The platform has more than a thousand service provider tenants and serves different industries, including AI, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Benefits for users: Users can manage cloud resources and software services in the centralized Compute Nest console, enjoying an out-of-the-box deployment experience. It supports one-click access to over a hundred industry software solutions such as databases and CRM, with centralized resource control to reduce O&M complexity. In terms of security, it provides on-demand authorization, dedicated O&M channels, and full-link log auditing, avoiding risks, such as password sharing.
For more information, see Benefits.
Billing
Compute Nest is a free functional platform. You are charged only if you associate Compute Nest with Alibaba Cloud Marketplace products or use it to create cloud resources. For more information, see Billing overview.
Configuration methods
The fires time you use Compute Nest, read Get started with Compute Nest to understand how it works.
To understand the entire process from service preparation and publishing to commercialization, refer to Quickly start with Compute Nest document series.