What is Elastic Computing?

What is Elastic Computing?

Elastic computing offers organizations the ability to swiftly expand or shrink IT infrastructure resources dynamically to meet changing demand. This is done automatically, without you having to plan capacity and peak usage ahead of time, meaning that the resources are there when you need them and released when you don’t. Using elastic computing results in huge savings in infrastructure costs, as you do not have to pay for resources that are not being used.

What Are the Benefits of Using Elastic Cloud Computing?

Complete flexibility: With on-demand computing resources, exact services and infrastructure are provisioned as they are needed. Resources are automatically provisioned behind the scenes, and organizations no longer have to worry about either over-provisioning or under-provisioning resources. The system remains high performing throughout.

Cost-effectiveness: Elastic cloud computing helps organizations avoid huge costs and expenses not only from adding extra resources to their data centers, but also from having to establish on-premises data centers in the first place. With the pay-as-you-go model, organizations only pay for the resources that they consume, saving IT costs.

Facilitates growth: Elastic cloud computing helps your organization adopt a growth-oriented mindset. The elastic cloud makes your IT infrastructure more agile and ready to welcome new users and customers.

Automation: Another benefit to cloud elasticity is its ability to automate the deployment process. By automating the provisioning and scaling of resources, it reduces the chance of human error and lets you free up time for IT staff to concentrate on your core business functionality.

Simplified management: With elastic cloud, IT teams no longer need to worry about deploying, maintaining and upgrading individual pieces of infrastructure. They have the option to set notifications for idle or underutilized resources, so that you are always aware of the status of usage.

Endless storage: With virtually unlimited storage capacity, elastic cloud can accommodate as much data as you need it to — no more, no less.

Who Should Use Elastic Cloud Computing?

Elastic cloud services are the right choice for your organization if…

You only want to pay for the resources that you need and want to ensure that users have continued access to your services even during unexpected spikes in demand, such as during Black Friday sales.
You require high availability and uptime, such as with an on-demand streaming services or e-commerce websites.
You need to scale virtual desktop infrastructure on the cloud for employees working remotely or if you have temporary projects to account for, such as data processing or the rendering of media.
You want to plan ahead for disaster recovery and business continuity. Elastic computing can be used for data backups in situations where companies deal with critical information.

Huawei Cloud Elastic Cloud Offerings

Huawei Cloud has a range of cloud offerings that feature elasticity for all different use cases. Choose the one that's right for you.

Services:

Computing: Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) provides secure, scalable, on-demand compute resources, enabling you to flexibly deploy applications and workloads.

Storage: Elastic Volume Service (EVS) provides highly durable block storage for Huawei Cloud servers such as Elastic Cloud Servers and Bare Metal Servers (BMSs). EVS offers 99.9999999% durability and as little as sub-millisecond read/write latency for a broad range of mission-critical applications.

Networking: Elastic Load Balance (ELB) automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to balance their workloads, increasing service capabilities and fault tolerance of your applications.

Networking/Connectivity: Elastic IP (EIP) provides static public IP addresses and scalable bandwidths that enable your cloud resources to communicate with the Internet. You can easily bind an EIP to an ECS, BMS, virtual IP address, NAT gateway, or load balancer, enabling immediate Internet access.