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Because it is the direction that the big boss is paying attention to, Kurian, the president of the Ziwei Cloud Business Group, appeared, and he was quite happy, because this is strengthening the strength of the cloud computing industry.

There are three major modes of cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Essentially, they are all the same, that is, to create an online platform on which various products are produced, waiting for customers to "rent" here.

In traditional IT, you can buy whatever you need.

That's expensive.

Many things are thrown away after being bought and used after a few times, which will also cause serious waste.

Cloud computing is to turn this demand into rent.

Lack of servers and computing power?

Let's use IaaS services and rent corresponding storage and computing resources on the cloud computing platform.

To do IT projects, we must rely on a large amount of data for further analysis through calculation and statistics.But what if there is no data?
Come to use PaaS services, come to rent data!
The coverage of the data is too broad.

Before the data is available, no one knows whether the data is the data you want.It is easy to cause you to buy it and find that it is not applicable at all, causing huge waste.

Cloud services will solve this demand, let's rent it.Even if the rent is wrong, the cost of trial and error is very low.Once the lease is successful, the contract can be renewed for a long time. The platform is constantly updating and sorting out relevant data, and customers can also use the first-hand data to make their own business judgments in real time.

Another option is software.

In the past, if you wanted to use software, you had to buy it.

After buying the software, install it on the local hard drive.

First of all, many professional software are very expensive; secondly, it is very difficult to install these professional software; and the update, maintenance, and operation of these professional software are very complicated...

In short, there are a lot of troubles, and it is very unfriendly to small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users. It is often a piece of software that has been installed for several days and is still not safe.

SaaS service means not buying software.

The software is all installed on the cloud, and services such as updates and after-sales services are also done on the cloud by the platform’s technical team, and customers can just rent it directly.

So all the hassle is saved.

What Shopify wants to do is this kind of "rental software" service that relies on the cloud computing platform.

Nowadays, those who do cross-border e-commerce are basically small and medium-sized enterprises.

The technical strength of these companies is relatively weak.

You can use this software for making e-commerce websites developed by Shopify to create beautiful e-commerce websites simply and conveniently.

It's exactly the same as Zhou Buqi heard from Ms. Ji Xiaqing, the product manager there, in the International Department of Ziwei Star Magic City.

For the cloud computing platform, it is actually a "charter woman".

What kind of charter woman makes money?

The more high-quality houses you have, the more customers you will have, and the more money you will make.

Therefore, for Kurian and Ziweiyun, of course, we should seize every opportunity to expand our strength and try our best to have as many high-quality assets as possible.

And it can also cause a linkage effect.

A customer who rents and buys software on the Ziwei Cloud platform will also give priority to Ziwei Cloud when he rents and buys resources such as servers, computing power, data, and algorithms on the cloud platform.

Cross-border e-commerce is indeed a new and promising future direction of e-commerce.

Kurian was very excited, "Ziwei Cloud's biggest rival at present is Amazon, and Amazon is an e-commerce giant. So in the e-commerce industry, they generally use Amazon cloud services. We have to admit that Ziwei The services provided by the cloud in this respect are indeed quite different from those of the Amazon cloud.”

Zhou Buqi's satisfaction with his work can be described as 99%.

It is much stronger than the land vehicle.

Satisfaction with land vehicles, up to 60%.

Among the core executives of Ziweixing International, Kurian, who is of Indian origin, is the most satisfactory. From the perspective of business, he is even better than Tang Binchen.

Under his leadership, Ziwei Cloud has become the undisputed number one in the world, with a market share 8 points more than Amazon Cloud.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's impossible for Ziweiyun to take over all fields. We have a near-monopoly advantage in the streaming media field, or Amazon can't go sideways to make movies."

Kurian smiled, "Yes."

With the success of Netflix's self-produced drama "House of Cards", streaming media platforms around the world have started the strategy of self-produced dramas, and Amazon is also following suit.

Why is Amazon doing streaming?

Whether it is past life or present life, the most important strategic value of this decision is cloud computing.If you only consider it from the business level, Amazon's streaming media is dispensable, and it is a very marginal business of Amazon.

But one thing cannot be denied, streaming media is the general trend.

Streaming media requires powerful storage and computing resources.

Let these companies buy it, no one can afford it, not even YouTube.

Then you can only rent it.

Go to the cloud computing platform to rent related resources.

This is a technical choice.

Amazon Cloud lacks technical accumulation in this field, lacks understanding of streaming media, and does not handle some details well enough, causing the streaming media platform to often go down when traffic bursts.

Ziweiyun originated from China.

The domestic Internet is best at dealing with the problems of high concurrency and short-term bursts of traffic. Its technical level is stronger than that of Silicon Valley, and it just fits the technical needs of streaming media.In addition, Ziweixing has reached cooperation agreements with Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and other well-known streaming media platforms.

Technology accumulation is getting stronger and stronger.

In the cloud service market in the field of streaming media, Ziweiyun has already dominated the world, with a market share of more than 85%. Even those adult websites have come to buy Ziweiyun's services.

Amazon Cloud will be in a hurry.

If you want to compete with Ziweiyun, you must make breakthroughs in the technical direction of streaming media cloud services. At least you must solve some basic problems at the technical level, and then you can stand on the same level as Ziweiyun at the commercial level. Compete on the horizontal line.

How to do a good job at the technical level?
Theory alone is not enough, you have to practice, you have to put it into practice.

Relying on others is definitely not enough.

Amazon does its own streaming media. Doesn’t the market not believe in the level of Amazon Cloud in the field of streaming media cloud services?That's good, I'll show you!

In fact, the platform economy summed up by Zhou Buqi must be inseparable from the theory of "self-operated + third-party".

Amazon will do Amazon Video first, and start its own streaming business!
Once self-operated, technical problems have been solved, data resources and industry experience have been summed up, and industry prestige has come out, so it will have market competitiveness.

Amazon Cloud's system in the field of streaming media cloud services has also been established.

This is the only way to attract more "third-party" customers, poaching from Ziweiyun.

The competition between Amazon Cloud and Ziwei Cloud has become more and more fierce, resulting in more and more collisions.

The core site of Amazon Cloud is e-commerce, and all e-commerce companies will give priority to Amazon Cloud when using cloud services.This is the biggest advantage of Amazon cloud.

Ziweiyun's core site is mainly streaming media and social networking.

Now, Amazon Cloud has started to move towards the field of streaming media, starting with self-operated, and wants to rely on a wave of long-term layout to compete with Ziwei Cloud in the future.

This time, with Boss Zhou's attention to cross-border e-commerce, Ziweiyun finally found an opportunity to attack the core site of Amazon Cloud.

Kurian has been eyeing the e-commerce industry for a long time, but he is a little worried, "I have also been eyeing cross-border e-commerce for a long time, including shopify, an e-commerce company that provides SaaS services in Canada. However, this industry seems to be very controversial. big."

This is a bit embarrassing for Zhou Buqi.

If there are disputes in the field of cross-border e-commerce, about [-]% to [-]% come from China.

On the one hand, some cross-border e-commerce teams are defrauding money by fraud.Others are even more violent, directly completing the flow of funds at home and abroad through false cross-border transactions, which is similar to money laundering.Therefore, the country has not officially recognized the cross-border e-commerce model.

Zhou Buqi coughed, "After all, it's a new market, so there will inevitably be some industry chaos."

Kurian said: "Amazon seems to have also promoted the global cross-border e-commerce business last year, but it did it very restrained and the relevant policies were tightened."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Tighten up, and there will be more opportunities. All new markets are inefficient first, and whoever can solve the problem of inefficiency will be able to lead the industry."

Kurian took a deep breath, "Shopify's e-commerce template can indeed create a beautiful e-commerce website efficiently and quickly."

Zhou Buqi said: "Amazon is doing e-commerce. They are on the front line, so they will definitely be conservative in strategy. What we do is build a platform for e-commerce websites. Others go to dig gold mines, we sell gold mines. shovel."

"That's the truth..." Kurian has been hesitant, "I'm afraid this is just an inconspicuous market, just like the group buying market. It was booming for a while, but soon the heat receded, and the entire industry was facing a crisis." Collapse. The collapse of the group buying industry has caused Amazon Cloud to lose a lot.”

Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, "Really? How much did you lose?"

Kurian said: "I don't think it will be less than 5 million US dollars. When the group buying wave came, they all used Amazon cloud services, and they all deferred payment. Then it collapsed, and Amazon cloud couldn't get back a penny. gone."

"This..." Zhou Buqi immediately thought of China, "Where is Ziweiyun? I mean, is Ziweiyun's business in the mainland area also damaged? The collapse of group buying in our country is more serious than that in the United States. "

Kurian smiled and said, "That's all right."

"Oh?"

Zhou Buqi breathed a sigh of relief, he had never heard of the collapse of the group buying trend in China that had affected Ziweiyun.It would be a little unreasonable if he didn't know about the serious loss.

"In the United States, Amazon Cloud launched a deferred payment strategy in order to compete with Ziweiyun." Curry settled down, "To be precise, this is my strategy. Ziweiyun has always been in the field of e-commerce. None of them are rivals of Amazon Cloud, and later I saw opportunities for emerging e-commerce companies such as group buying. Ziweiyun has launched a series of support plans. If the group buying website uses Ziweiyun’s services, payment can be postponed and so on.”

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing, "Amazon Cloud is worried about being robbed of the market, so it followed up?"