Alibaba Cloud DNS Product Upgrade and Ecosystem Strategy at Yunqi Conference 2023

On October 31, the Yunqi Conference’s forum themed “‘DNS+’ Connecting Everything, Addressing First” was successfully held in Hangzhou, where three leaders from Alibaba Cloud DNS presented product upgrades, technical capabilities, and ecosystem strategies, and invited customers and partners to share their DNS research and application experiences.

According to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology’s 2022 Hybrid Cloud User Development Survey, enterprise IT infrastructure has entered a “multi‑cloud + traditional IDC” integration stage. DNS, as the first hop for application access, must address global interconnection and unified scheduling across heterogeneous environments such as public cloud, private cloud, and traditional IDC.

Product Lead Liu Zhihui introduced the Cloud DNS product system, positioning it as a core solution for integrated IP intelligent addressing and scheduling in multi‑cloud + self‑built IDC scenarios. This year’s upgrade enhances resource management, heterogeneous disaster recovery, full‑link visibility, flexible integration, standardized processes, and operational service capabilities.

The product now serves two ends (IDC side and device SDK side). The platform’s capabilities are delivered as software, enabling standardized IDC deployment, while the SDK optimizes terminal DNS performance. On the platform side, enhancements in visibility, unified management, ultra‑high availability, and full‑link closure meet customer needs for both internal and public DNS resolution, performance analysis, configuration, domain control, stability, low‑latency resolution, and global scheduling.

Figure: Cloud DNS “One Platform + Two Ends” product system

Figure: Major upgrade for the two ends of Cloud DNS

Figure: Major upgrade for the platform side of Cloud DNS

Technical Lead Ma Yong presented the Cloud DNS technical architecture, analyzing four key challenges—stability, security, scalability, and flexibility—in integrated scenarios, and described a fully self‑developed, intelligent, end‑to‑end cloud architecture backed by Alibaba’s globally deployed DNS infrastructure.

Figure: Cloud‑native integrated technical architecture

Ecosystem Strategy Lead Zhang Xiaojun outlined the “making DNS resolution more inclusive” strategy, emphasizing DNS as a foundational service for digital transformation across industries and announcing a fully functional, self‑developed, free Alibaba Cloud Fusion DNS software for large customers, opening the ecosystem to operations staff, developers, and ISVs.

Figure: Co‑building the DNS service ecosystem

Geely Automobile, a strategic partner of Alibaba Cloud, uses the Fusion DNS service across public cloud, VPC, self‑built IDC, and other platforms, supporting its mode innovation and intelligent manufacturing. Geely’s IT Infrastructure Lead Gu Chaoping delivered a talk titled “Technology‑Driven Mode Innovation, Data‑Empowered Intelligent Manufacturing.”

Figure: Gu Chaoping’s presentation at Geely

Gu explained Geely’s transition from a proprietary cloud to a multi‑cloud model, leveraging Alibaba’s distributed DNS architecture to provide global domain resolution, enabling elastic traffic scaling, disaster‑recovery switching, low‑cost, rapid deployment, and high availability.

Figure: Geely’s global distributed DNS architecture

China Communications (Zhongjiao Xinglu), an ecosystem inclusive customer, deployed the inclusive DNS software to achieve high‑availability disaster‑recovery scheduling and improve service continuity. Their Operations Director Sun Rencai presented “Fusion Cloud Traffic Scheduling Scenario Delivery.”

Figure: Sun Rencai at the conference

Figure: Shenzhou Guangda’s fusion cloud DNS deployment architecture

Shenzhou Guangda, an Alibaba Cloud DNS ecosystem partner, provides reliable delivery and operation support for the Fusion DNS software. Their R&D Director Zhou Feng delivered a talk titled “Service Cloud, Cloud Service.”

Figure: Zhou Feng’s presentation

Figure: Service capabilities for delivering Alibaba Cloud Fusion DNS