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    Enterprise Distributed Application Service:Spring Cloud overview

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    Enterprise Distributed Application Service:Spring Cloud overview

    Last Updated:Mar 11, 2026

    Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS) supports the native Spring Cloud microservices framework. Deploy Spring Cloud applications to EDAS without changing code or configurations to gain enterprise-grade service governance, observability, and application management. These features help you improve the stability and security of your applications.

    Why deploy Spring Cloud applications on EDAS

    Spring Cloud provides standards for common microservices patterns -- service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, configuration management, and messaging -- with implementations such as Spring Cloud Netflix, Spring Cloud Consul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Spring Cloud Sleuth, and Spring Cloud Alibaba (developed by the middleware team of Alibaba Group). Based on these standards, Spring Cloud also provides implementation components for service gateways, distributed tracing, security, distributed job scheduling, and distributed job coordination.

    EDAS adds production-ready features on top of the open-source framework:

    • Microservices governance -- canary release, outlier ejection, graceful shutdown, and service query, all without code changes.

    • Observability -- distributed tracing, monitoring and alerting, and application diagnosis.

    • Application management -- centralized deployment and management of applications.

    Applications built with components such as Spring Cloud Netflix or Spring Cloud Consul run on EDAS immediately. EDAS handles service registration and discovery by default, replacing components like Netflix Eureka or Consul Discovery transparently.

    Component compatibility

    EDAS supports Spring Cloud Edgware and later versions. The following table maps each feature to its open-source implementation and describes how EDAS handles it.

    Spring Cloud feature

    Open source implementation

    EDAS compatibility

    References

    General features

    Service registration and discovery

    • Netflix Eureka

    • Consul Discovery

    Compatible; substitute components available

    Handled by EDAS by default

    Load balancing

    Netflix Ribbon

    Compatible

    Implement load balancing

    Service call

    • Feign

    • RestTemplate

    Compatible

    --

    Configuration management

    • Config Server

    • Consul Config

    Compatible; substitute components available

    Manage application configurations

    Service gateway

    • Spring Cloud Gateway

    • Netflix Zuul

    Compatible

    Build service gateways

    Tracing

    Spring Cloud Sleuth

    Compatible; substitute components available

    --

    Spring Cloud Stream

    • RabbitMQ binder

    • Kafka binder

    Compatible; substitute components available

    --

    Spring Cloud Bus

    • RabbitMQ

    • Kafka

    Compatible; substitute components available

    --

    Security

    Spring Cloud Security

    Compatible

    --

    Distributed job scheduling

    Spring Cloud Task

    Compatible

    Implement job scheduling

    Distributed coordination

    Spring Cloud Cluster

    Compatible

    --

    Note

    Components not listed in this table, such as Hystrix, Zuul, and Spring Cloud Gateway, also work as expected on EDAS.

    Supported versions

    EDAS supports Spring Cloud Edgware and later. The following table shows version mappings among Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Alibaba.

    Spring Cloud

    Spring Boot

    Spring Cloud Alibaba

    2020.0

    2.4.x

    2021.1

    Hoxton

    2.2.x

    2.2.6.RELEASE

    Greenwich

    2.1.x

    2.1.1.RELEASE

    Finchley

    2.0.x

    2.0.1.RELEASE

    Edgware

    1.5.x

    1.5.1.RELEASE

    Note

    For versions not listed here, see the Spring Cloud Alibaba release notes.

    See also