

"AI Surge needed a cloud platform that is agile, cost effective, secure, and compliant to build their data solution for running fast and accurate analytics on large datasets. AI Surge eventually chose Alibaba Cloud as its cloud provider for the excellent support and easy to use platform."
01About AI Surge
AI Surge is a SaaS provider that develops "automation-as-a-service" solutions for data intelligence, enabling businesses to extract more value from their data without the need of data experts. Through its Data Lakehouse solution, users can have advanced analytics, real-time visualization of data, and Google-like search capability through its data cataloging system.
AI Surge's Data Lakehouse capabilities represent a new frontier for businesses who want to solve problems and make critical business decisions with their data. It caters for the data needs of businesses, all on one platform.
02Challenge
AI Surge's mission is to empower business teams for fast and interactive analytics on large and complex datasets. It understands the importance of data for customers, but it also understands the need to tackle the challenges with overvaluing the process of data.
Many organizations are stacking up their IT department with data experts and various data technologies, yet businesses are struggling to get access to their data. Rather, there is a frustration within the business community to reduce the wait time when seeking feedback from IT teams.
AI Surge aims to help business leaders overcome these challenges by delivering valuable business insights on time, all on a single platform. By moving away from traditional data solutions, businesses can explore analytic solutions that offer more flexibility and agility, which are hard to find in traditional data management systems.
03Why Alibaba Cloud
AI Surge needed a cloud platform that is agile, cost effective, secure, and compliant to build their data solution for running fast and accurate analytics on large datasets. AI Surge eventually chose Alibaba Cloud as its cloud provider for the excellent support and easy to use platform. In addition, Alibaba Cloud's flexible pricing options and cost-effective solutions allow AI Surge to scale their resources quickly while keeping costs at a minimum.
04Architecture
AI Surge's ultimate goal is to implement an easy-to-use application that allows data owners to work on their data without writing a single line of code, while ensuring that the data is processed using industry-leading technologies.
To achieve this, AI Surge leveraged a host of cloud products from Alibaba Cloud, including Container Service for Kubernetes, ApsaraDB for MongoDB, Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), and Server Load Balancer(SLB). These products, as well as Alibaba Cloud's dedicated support, enabled AI Surge to build a unified platform, allowing users to apply ACID transaction on top of their Data Lake assets.
05Looking Forward
The team at AI Surge hopes to continue its successful partnership with Alibaba Cloud and experiment with more products and services in the near future. It hopes to develop more user-centric capabilities for various use cases, including Data Processing on Edge, PDF Scan Data, Visual SQL builder, and Industry-Specific AI & BI Tools.