Alibaba Cloud Serverless App Engine
Alibaba Cloud Serverless App Engine (SAE) is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that enables developers to deploy and run traditional application frameworks and microservices in a serverless operational model. It abstracts away underlying infrastructure management, providing…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2019
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud Serverless App Engine (SAE) was created to address the significant operational overhead and infrastructure management complexities faced by developers deploying and scaling traditional application frameworks and microservices, particularly those based on Java, Spring Cloud, and Dubbo. It aimed to provide a serverless experience for these applications, which were often ill-suited for pure Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models, thus bridging the gap between traditional PaaS/IaaS and serverless.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Alibaba Group (internal business units)
- Various enterprises using Alibaba Cloud for application modernization and deployment