Alibaba SysOps Administrator case studies
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The Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional (ACP) SysOps Administrator credential is aimed at engineers who run day-to-day operations on Alibaba Cloud rather than design architectures from scratch. It suits cloud operations staff, SREs, and system administrators who already touch ECS, VPC, OSS, and RAM and want independent evidence that they can keep those services healthy. The Alibaba SysOps Administrator case studies are 5 cases and about 2,428 words.
1Autoscaling Web Tier Behind SLB During Flash Sale
A retail platform runs an ECS-based web tier behind a public-facing SLB (layer-4 TCP listener, round-robin). During a flash sale, request volume triples for 10 minutes.
503 words, about 3 min2Cross-Region Backup and RPO for OSS-Backed Application Data
A SaaS provider stores user-generated files in an OSS bucket in the China (Hangzhou) region. The bucket has versioning enabled and a lifecycle rule that transitions objects to Infrequent Access after 30 days and deletes noncurrent versions after 90 days.
491 words, about 2 min3Security Group and RAM Design for a Multi-Tier VPC
A three-tier application runs in a VPC: a public SLB, a web tier of 6 ECS instances in a public-facing vSwitch, an app tier of 4 ECS instances in a private vSwitch, and an RDS instance. Engineers currently use the root account's AccessKey in CI scripts and connect to ECS over SSH from the internet using a shared password.
473 words, about 2 min4Diagnosing Intermittent Latency on a Self-Managed MySQL on ECS
A self-managed MySQL 8.0 runs on a single ECS instance (8 vCPU, 32 GiB, ESSD PL1 data disk, separate ESSD system disk). Users report intermittent 2–5 second query latency spikes every few minutes, worst around 02:00.
440 words, about 2 min5Rolling Deployment via ROS and Cloud Assistant Without Downtime
A team deploys a Java service to 12 ECS instances behind an SLB using a manual process: SSH to each host, stop the service, replace the JAR, start it, and verify. A release takes ~50 minutes and causes partial outages because the SLB continues to send traffic during restarts.
521 words, about 3 min