Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) is a service that helps you model and set up your Alibaba Cloud resources. ROS provides multiple benefits, such as improved deployment efficiency, free Terraform management, convenient architecture optimization, cost-effectiveness, and compliance control.
Improved deployment efficiency
You can use templates in ROS to provision your entire cloud environment. ROS templates help you deploy cloud resources in new zones as your business grows. ROS templates also help you deploy development, test, and production environments with improved deployment efficiency and reduced chances of human errors.
Free Terraform management
ROS provides free Terraform management. You can create Terraform templates and Terraform stacks in ROS to orchestrate resources of Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Compared with Terraform CLI, Terraform managed in ROS provides cloud deployment and supports the native features of ROS, such as price inquiry, risk detection, template sharing, stack groups, and resource scenarios.
Convenient architecture optimization
Alibaba Cloud develops an optimal cloud migration guide for enterprises based on the cloud migration experiences that are accumulated from a large number of customers. ROS provides the cloud migration experiences as templates in the Public Templates module. You can deploy or modify the templates in a few steps to optimize your cloud architecture in complex scenarios.
Cost-effectiveness
After you use templates in ROS to provision your cloud environment, ROS can automatically deploy resources at scale or delete stacks as your demand for resources increases or decreases. ROS leverages the pay-as-you-go and auto provisioning features of cloud resources to reduce costs.
Compliance control
ROS is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service. You can define your infrastructure as code in templates. Each time you want to create or update a template, you can review the code. ROS integrates the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) approaches into template management. This ensures that templates meet the management requirements of your organization and enhances the security and compliance of your cloud environment.