Alibaba Cloud Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN)
Alibaba Cloud Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) is a highly available and scalable global network service that enables enterprises to build a private, fast, and stable network to connect their Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across multiple regions, and extend this network to their on-premises data…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud CEN was created to address the significant challenges enterprises faced when trying to connect geographically dispersed cloud resources and integrate them seamlessly with their on-premises infrastructure. Before CEN, achieving this required complex, point-to-point VPN connections, often leading to performance bottlenecks, management overhead, and a lack of unified network visibility and control across multiple regions and hybrid environments.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Enterprises with a global presence on Alibaba Cloud
- Companies with complex multi-region VPC architectures
- Organizations implementing hybrid cloud strategies