Alibaba Cloud provides powerful security services (the same level of security services used to support Alibaba Group double 11 shopping festival). However, you have to pay first before using any of the security services.
RDS for MySQL is a PaaS, which means after creating the RDS instance, the user does not need to take care of the underlying OS, runtime environment of software packages. These would be taken care of by Alibaba Cloud.
A customer uses Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling service and creates a scaling group. He/she sets the “Minimum number of instances” to 6 and “Maximum number of instances” to 8.
After correctly configuring scaling settings, the customer adds a scaling rule “Remove 5 ECS instances”, and creates a scheduled task based on this rule.
And then, the customer checks the scaling group and see it already contains 8 valid ECS instances, he/she then enables this scaling group immediately.
How many ECS instances are left in the scaling group when the scheduled task is activated once?
You built an online shop using Alibaba Cloud services (ECS, RDS, …etc.) and very soon you’ll have a campaign that every customer that invites 3 friends will get a 50% off coupon. To avoid HTTP flood attacks and ensure only genuine customers (not bots) joining the event, which security product should you choose?