Alibaba Cloud Edge Cloud's new architecture upgrades to help CDN control a new experience

Introduction to This upgrade is based on the usage feedback of tens of thousands of corporate customers and industry application characteristics, from simple activation to personalized customization, from content distribution to a complete solution for edge computing, and comprehensively sorts out the customer-side experience. Link optimization, advance edge cloud CDN control innovation, and gradually build an open platform for "5G + edge".

As edge cloud technology matures and standards become more unified, CDN, as one of the core basic applications of enterprise edge cloud, is increasingly penetrated into the industry due to its low latency, high concurrency, and low cost. In various application scenarios of the Internet.

Based on the usage feedback of tens of thousands of corporate customers and industry application characteristics, this upgrade has gone from simple activation to personalized customization, and from content distribution to complete solutions for edge computing. The customer-side experience is comprehensively sorted and the entire link optimized. Promote the innovation of edge cloud CDN control, and gradually build an open platform for "5G + edge".

upgrade 1: 0 threshold to open edge cloud CDN service

The Alibaba Cloud CDN console overview page serves as the first entry point for users to access, giving priority to displaying data, domain names, usage, resource packs and other information. At the same time, learning paths and self-service diagnostic tools are added to help novice users quickly get started. For domain name addition scenarios, in the new version of domain name management function launched in July 2021, a new domain name configuration wizard function is added to guide users to easily complete the operation configuration, avoiding the situation that cannot be operated due to improper operation.

For mid-to-advanced users, edge cloud CDNs have also significantly improved in terms of "acceleration efficiency", "access performance", and "security". The new "recommended configuration" function has been added, which includes the most commonly used and customized functions of CDN, such as Cache expiration time, filtering parameters, intelligent compression, range back to the source, monitoring alarms, etc. Reasonable configuration can help increase the cache hit rate, increase the access speed, and make the acceleration experience smoother.

upgrade 2: service visualization and tooling

To help users analyze acceleration costs and efficiency more intuitively, this upgrade adds a new "operation report" function, including topURL and topIP statistics, which can be customized and data inquired in the operation report. After the report is customized, you can create daily, weekly, and monthly subscription tasks, and the data will be automatically sent to the designated mailbox for regular analysis and adjustment of business strategies. At the same time, through code optimization and API optimization, the CDN console's second-level response effect has been achieved, from the original 2.8 seconds to about 1 second, and the performance is improved by 100%, making the overall product operation interaction experience smoother.

Upgrade 3: Self-service tools increase efficiency by 50%

When encountering a series of problems such as domain name conflict, domain name inaccessibility, and slow domain name access speed, users can locate and resolve the problem through tools such as domain name status diagnosis, function configuration check, abnormal status code diagnosis, etc., so as to improve the efficiency of problem handling. When a user's problem cannot be solved with a self-service tool, the self-service tool can be used to arouse the manual work order processing process, realize the seamless switch from the intelligent question and answer to the manual customer service, and obtain the solution as quickly as possible.

Cloud Edge Cloud CDN does more than accelerate

Alibaba Cloud Edge Cloud Programmable CDN (EdgeScript) configuration function can combine a customized CDN configuration like a building block through simple and easy-to-learn syntax and a rich function library. It has business advantages such as simple syntax, flexible development, and agile iteration, and is widely used in the development of various customized business flows. At present, the business scenarios that programmable CDN can support include 7 types of customized authentication, cache control, speed limit control, and banning and interception.

In the future, Alibaba Cloud edge cloud technology will inevitably continue to evolve in the direction of distributed, miniaturization, autonomy, collaboration, and cloud native. Alibaba Cloud will give full play to its overall advantages in products, technologies, and ecology, and provide flexibility and openness. , A secure edge cloud computing base, empowering partners to develop multi-scenario edge applications, serving customers in various vertical industries, constantly building open product capabilities, combining more scenario-based solutions, and promoting the further industry development of edge cloud.

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