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Running the World’s Internet Servers

Key Features ofChina’s Public Clouds

By Steve Mushero

May, 2014

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Public Clouds taking over the World

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Now in China, too

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Public Cloud History in China

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• ChinaNetCloud – 2008

• CloudEx – 2009

• Joyent – 2010

• Aliyun – 2010

• Hi-China – 2011

• U-Cloud – 2012

• Q-Cloud – 2013

• QingCloud - 2013


What are we talking about ?

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• Public IaaS clouds

• Virtual Servers

• Plus other Services

• Available in China today

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Clouds Feature Areas

• Compute

• Networking

• Storage

• Database

• Security

• Application Services

• Deployment & Management


Feature - Compute

• The key feature !

• A Virtual Machine

• Sized by RAM & CPU

• The main cost driver

• All clouds about the same

• Careful of Cores

• AWS uses CU – 1Ghz

• Others use 2-3Ghz cores


Feature - Networking

• Usually very basic

• Private & Public IP, fixed

• Purchase Public bandwidth

• Usually by server

• Usually BGP

• Expensive – 60-100-200 RMB/month/Mbps


Feature – Networking - VPC

• VPC – Virtual Private Network

• More like private LAN in IDC

• With Internet gateway

• Can add VPNs

• Can build 100% private network

• The future of higher-end clouds

• Best practice on AWS


Feature - Networking

• Load Balancer – ELB

• Basic LB functions

• Can do SSL

• CDN – Very helpful

• Firewall – Later, in security


Feature - Storage

• Three separate types

• Local Disk

• Block Storage

• Object Storage

• All are important


Feature – Storage – Local Disks

• Most common

• Not always RAID

• Not always persistent

• AWS deletes on restart/crash


Feature – Storage – Block Storage

• EBS

• Actually disks on iSCSI

• Attach as disk – sdc/sdd

• Format / LVM as disk

• Can be very fast

• Especially if SSD-backed

• Provision by IOPS

• 100 standard, AWS to 2000


Feature – Storage – Object Storage

• S3

• Aliyun’s OSS

• Files in the cloud

• Specialized Clouds

• Qiniu


Feature - Database

• Database as Service

• MySQL, SQL Server, etc.

• Nice, but simple

• Usually limits

• Replication

• Backups

• Tuning

• Monitoring


Feature - Database

• Also key-value (Dynamo)

• Redis/Memcache

• Hadoop

• Simpler than own install

• Complex to setup

• Cheaper than own install


Feature - Security

• Different levels and functions

• Server Users

• Password

• Keys

• Firewall/Network

• Security Groups

• VPC

• Console Users

• Single vs. IAM

• API - Keys


Feature – App Services

• Many smaller services

• SMS

• Queue

• Payment

• Email Sending

• Search – Like Solr

• Encoding/Transcoding

• Monitoring – Limited


Feature – Deploy & Manage

• Still quite rare

• Server Images (AMI)

• Auto-Scaling

• Automation/API


Feature – Billing Services

• Still rate in China, more to come

• Can be very complex

• Especially for per hour/minute, with options

• Many 3rd party services

• Especially for AWS

• Analysis – What/how used

• Efficiency – Don’t waste

• Savings – Optimize

• Useful


Feature – Backups

• None

• Do it yourself

• Push tar.gz to object storage


Feature Priority / Importance

• Compute

• Network

• Storage

• Security

• Database


Pioneers in OaaS – Operations as a Service

Thanks from ChinaNetCloud


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