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App Streaming:What is App Streaming?

Last Updated:Aug 26, 2026

App Streaming is an application virtualization service that delivers applications to users in media streaming. App Streaming is hosted on the Alibaba Cloud public cloud and allows you to quickly build multi-ecosystem applications without deployment and use applications out-of-the-box. This service is suitable for managing cloud applications in a secure, simple, and efficient manner at low costs.

Scenarios

App Streaming is suitable for various scenarios, such as online education, high-end design, large-scale rendering, gaming and entertainment, and personal R&D. For more information, see Use scenarios.

Benefits

As a fully managed application virtualization service that delivers applications to users in media streaming, App Streaming provides the following benefits:

Efficient Management

Manages apps in the cloud in a centralized manner to simplify the management of the app lifecycle and enable the rapid launch of new apps and versions.

Quick Distribution

Allows you to deploy apps in the cloud and deliver apps to users in media streaming without the need to rewrite code. This enables unified and quick distribution of apps that have different operating systems.

Auto Scaling

Supports scaling within minutes for flexible change of cloud resources.

Optimal User Experience

Provides real-time user interaction experience based on cloud-device protocols featuring high performance, reliability, and security.

Custom Configurations

Allows you to specify custom session quotas in different scenarios to fully leverage cloud computing power.

Easy Access

Allows access from Alibaba Cloud Workspace clients to simplify access to apps.

For more information about the benefits of App Streaming, see Benefits.

Next steps

After you understand App Streaming, you can get started by performing the following steps:

  1. Create a custom image for the standard applications that you want to publish as cloud applications. For more information, see Create and manage images.

  2. Publish a delivery group, specify the image in the delivery group, and assign it to specified end users. For more information, see Publish a delivery group.