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On June 6, 2025 Alibaba Cloud experienced a widespread DNS resolution failure affecting OSS, CDN, container image services and more, which was later linked to a Shadowserver sinkhole, and the article outlines the incident timeline, root‑cause analysis, and practical mitigation steps for operators.
This article explains how to build a flexible machine‑learning infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud ACK using Ray and KubeRay, covering Ray's core components, AI libraries, deployment options on VMs and Kubernetes, code examples for data processing, model serving, and advanced scheduling and quota management techniques.
This guide explains how Alibaba Cloud's ACK One registered cluster provides multi‑region serverless GPU compute scheduling, addressing AI workload elasticity by using region‑specific labels, ResourcePolicy, and the ack‑co‑scheduler to automatically balance resources across regions.
The article outlines multiple approaches for synchronizing MySQL data to Elasticsearch—including synchronous and asynchronous dual‑write, Logstash pipelines, binlog real‑time sync, Canal, and Alibaba Cloud DTS—while also promoting related AI products and community services.
This case study describes how Qimai Technology, a SaaS provider for offline stores, tackled rapid cloud cost growth by establishing a cost center that uses CMDB mapping, Alibaba Cloud ACK Cost V2 API, and static and dynamic allocation rules to achieve fine‑grained resource cost distribution and improve financial transparency.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of Alibaba Cloud's modern data stack built on Flink CDC, detailing its core concepts, extended capabilities, typical application scenarios, performance optimizations, a live demo, and future development plans for large‑scale streaming data integration.
This guide explains how to deploy a production‑ready DeepSeek‑R1 inference service on Alibaba Cloud ACK using KServe, covering model preparation, storage configuration, service deployment, observability, autoscaling, model acceleration, gray‑release and GPU‑shared inference.
This article explains how Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) can be extended using EnvoyFilter, Lua scripts, WebAssembly plugins, External Processing filters, and custom authorization services, detailing their capabilities, limitations, and recommended use cases for cloud‑native microservice environments.
This guide explains how to achieve zone‑level disaster recovery on Alibaba Cloud by deploying multi‑AZ ACK clusters, configuring Service Mesh ASM for observability and traffic shifting, and using Prometheus‑based metrics and alerts to detect and isolate failures, including step‑by‑step instructions and sample YAML manifests.
The article analyzes the storage, sharding, backup, and operational pain points of Zhihu's self‑operated MongoDB cluster, proposes cloud‑based architectural and procedural solutions, and details a step‑by‑step migration plan that ensures zero‑downtime, improved stability, and cost efficiency.
The article details how the Juqian intelligent investment research platform leverages Alibaba Cloud's ACK cloud‑native AI suite, Kubernetes, and various cloud services to build a high‑efficiency, scalable AI‑driven quantitative finance solution, improving resource utilization, reducing costs, and accelerating research workflows.
At the CCF China Storage Conference 2024 in Guangzhou, Alibaba Cloud’s research team presented the ALS (ALink System) ecosystem, discussed Scale‑Up interconnect protocols, and demonstrated multi‑layer storage innovations for AI workloads, highlighting hardware‑software integration, high‑bandwidth networking, and future CXL/PIM research.
In June 2024, Alibaba Cloud and Tsinghua University's MADSys Lab announced the open‑source Mooncake architecture, a KVCache‑centered large‑model inference framework that boosts throughput, lowers cost, and standardizes resource‑pooling techniques for high‑performance AI inference across industry and academia.
This guide explains how to use Kmesh, an eBPF‑based high‑performance service‑mesh data plane, with Alibaba Cloud ASM by configuring the control plane, deploying the Kmesh DaemonSet, setting required environment variables, and verifying traffic routing and service status.
This guide explains how to use an idle Alibaba Cloud server, install Docker, deploy the NPS reverse‑proxy container, configure security groups and client settings, and finally enable remote access to a local development service through an internet‑exposed tunnel.
This guide explains how enterprises can overcome IDC data‑center capacity limits by leveraging Alibaba Cloud ACK One registration clusters to achieve flexible, cost‑effective elastic scaling, detailing architecture, registration steps, node‑pool creation, virtual nodes, multi‑level scheduling, and associated command‑line examples.
This article provides a detailed, beginner‑friendly tutorial on purchasing an Alibaba Cloud ECS instance, configuring the operating system, and installing JDK 8, Redis, and MySQL 8.0—including necessary firewall and security‑group settings—to launch a functional web‑site environment.
EasyRec, Alibaba Cloud’s modular recommendation framework, unifies configurable data, embedding, dense, and output layers on MaxCompute, EMR, and DLC, and speeds training with deduplication, EmbeddingParallel sharding, lock‑free hash tables, GPU embeddings, and AMX BF16, while inference benefits from operator fusion, low‑precision AVX/AMX kernels, compact caches, batch merging, and network compression, enabling real‑time online learning and delivering higher recommendation quality at lower cost in e‑commerce.
Alibaba Cloud, in collaboration with Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, received the China Automation Association’s top Science and Technology Progress Award for breakthrough ultra‑large‑scale cloud network control technology that achieves second‑level task configuration for hundreds of thousands of tasks, marking a first in China.
This article introduces Spring Cloud Alibaba AI, explains its relationship to Spring AI, and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial—including Maven setup, dependency configuration, code examples, and sample calls—to integrate Alibaba's Tongyi large‑model services for text QA, image generation, and speech synthesis in a Java Spring Boot application.