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App Streaming:What is App Streaming?

Last Updated:Jan 27, 2025

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

Use 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

App Streaming is a fully managed service that runs apps in the cloud and pushes streaming data to users over networks. The service 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.

Operation guide

You can view the operation guide based on your role.

Admin Avatar

Purchase and assign cloud apps as enterprise users

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User Avatar

Use cloud apps as individuals

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Developer Avatar

Use APIs or SDKs for secondary development

View Developer Guide