Cloud Computing Solution

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2026-04-07

Against the backdrop of continuous development in digitalization and internet business, enterprise IT infrastructure has evolved from a "resource support tool" to a "business growth engine".

Ten years ago, the main responsibility of IT departments was to "ensure system uptime", and servers were regarded as cost centers. Today, an enterprise's market competitiveness is directly determined by its ability to quickly launch new features, handle sudden traffic spikes, and control IT costs. The emergence of cloud computing allows enterprises to no longer need to purchase hardware months in advance, over-invest in peak capacity, or maintain complex data center environments.

However, many enterprises still use traditional thinking when using cloud computing: treating the cloud as "managed virtual machines", resulting in neither enjoying the benefits of elastic scaling nor significantly reducing costs

Magicsoft believes that a true cloud computing solution is not just moving servers to the cloud, but reconstructing the entire technical system around the characteristics of the cloud—elasticity, on-demand, and automation—transforming IT infrastructure from "passively supporting business" to "actively driving growth".

Common problems with traditional IT architectures:

Fixed resources: Once server configurations are purchased, they cannot be changed. When business volume increases, new servers need to be repurchased, racked, and configured, taking weeks; when business volume decreases, idle resources cannot be released, causing waste
Difficult expansion: In monolithic application architectures, only vertical scaling (replacing with more powerful servers) is possible, which has physical limits and is extremely costly
High costs: Not only in hardware procurement and data center electricity bills, but also in hidden costs such as salaries for dedicated operation and maintenance teams, software licensing fees, and security equipment investments
Complex operation and maintenance: A large number of manual operations for system patching, backup and recovery, fault diagnosis, and performance tuning, requiring high personnel skills and being prone to errors

The combination of these problems causes enterprises with traditional IT architectures to either crash when facing "Double 11"-level traffic spikes or invest huge costs in redundancy

Magicsoft's Cloud Computing Solution revolves around "cloud resources + cloud architecture + cloud operation and maintenance" to help enterprises build a high-performance, highly available, low-cost, and scalable cloud-based technical foundation.

"Cloud resources" are the foundation, including basic components such as computing (ECS, EKS), storage (block storage, object storage, file storage), and network (VPC, load balancing, CDN). We select the most appropriate resource types and specifications based on business needs and use the elastic capabilities of cloud platforms to achieve on-demand allocation
"Cloud architecture" is the framework, designing modern architectures such as distributed, microservices, and serverless to ensure the system can scale horizontally, isolate faults, and support high concurrency
"Cloud operation and maintenance" is the guarantee, establishing automated monitoring, alerting, deployment, backup, and recovery systems to transform operation and maintenance from "manual" to "automated"

Magicsoft provides full lifecycle services from architecture design, platform construction, migration implementation to continuous operation and maintenance, helping enterprises smoothly move to the cloud and fully realize the value of the cloud

I. Overall Cloud Computing Architecture

We break down cloud computing capabilities into a multi-layer structure to form a complete technical system:

Basic Resource Layer → Platform Service Layer → Application Support Layer → Operation and Maintenance Management Layer

Basic Resource Layer: The physical or virtualized foundation of cloud computing, including computing (CPU/memory), storage (HDD/SSD), and network (bandwidth/routing). The core capability of this layer is resource pooling, which abstracts a large number of physical resources into a unified schedulable pool
Platform Service Layer: Managed services provided on top of the resource layer, such as database services (RDS), caching services (Redis), message queues (Kafka), and container orchestration (K8s). These services eliminate the need for enterprises to install, configure, and maintain them themselves
Application Support Layer: Components directly related to business development, such as API gateways, microservice frameworks, log collection, and distributed tracing, to help developers quickly build cloud-native applications
Operation and Maintenance Management Layer: Covers monitoring, alerting, auto scaling, backup and recovery, cost analysis, etc., and is the "brain" of the cloud platform

Magicsoft will help enterprises plan and build layer by layer from bottom to top to ensure each layer follows best practices and layers collaborate efficiently

II. Core Capability System (Productized Capabilities)

Module	Service Content	Core Value
Cloud Resource Management	Computing / Storage / Network	Flexible resource usage
Cloud Architecture Design	Distributed / Microservices	Support high concurrency
Cloud Platform Construction	Private Cloud / Hybrid Cloud	Flexible deployment
Automated Operation and Maintenance	Automated deployment and management	Improve efficiency
Security System	Data and network security	Risk control
Cost Management	Resource optimization	Reduce expenses

Cloud Resource Management: Helps enterprises select and use cloud products rationally to avoid blindly purchasing high-spec resources
Cloud Architecture Design: The technical core, designing architectures that meet current needs and have expansion capabilities based on business volume forecasts, growth trends, and SLA requirements
Cloud Platform Construction: For enterprises with private or hybrid cloud requirements (such as government, finance, and other highly regulated industries), we can build private cloud platforms in enterprise internal or dedicated data centers with the same experience as public clouds
Automated Operation and Maintenance: Including configuration management, application deployment, auto scaling, etc., to free operation and maintenance personnel from repetitive work
Security System: Covers network security, host security, application security, and data security, and provides compliance support
Cost Management: Helps enterprises control cloud expenses through resource optimization, billing analysis, budget alerts, and other means

Magicsoft provides standardized deliverables for each module, which enterprises can purchase on demand

III. Common Enterprise Problems (Real Pain Points)

Server resource waste: Most servers have CPU utilization consistently below 10% throughout the year, but enterprises have already paid 100% of the fees
Difficult system expansion: When business grows, database connections are insufficient, application server thread pools are full, and disk space is running out, requiring downtime for expansion every time
System crashes during peak periods: The most feared scenario for industries such as e-commerce, ticketing, and education: systems that normally run smoothly experience sudden traffic surges at the start of promotions, causing slow responses or even downtime, directly losing orders and damaging brand reputation
Complex and costly operation and maintenance: Requires multiple high-salary operation and maintenance engineers to handle installation, configuration, monitoring, backup, and fault handling, and each can only manage a limited number of servers
Uncontrollable security risks: Traditional environments lack unified security policies, possibly using weak passwords, not updating patches, and having no intrusion detection, becoming a "breeding ground" for hackers

Magicsoft's cloud computing solution has mature countermeasures for each problem, helping enterprises move from "firefighting" to "prevention"

IV. Core Logic of the Solution

Magicsoft emphasizes "cloud-native architecture + automated management + data-driven optimization":

Resource Elasticity → Auto Scaling → Peak Stability
Unified Management → Reduce Complexity
On-demand Usage → Control Costs

Cloud-native architecture: Make full use of cloud platform features such as elasticity, distribution, and managed services, rather than simply moving traditional architectures to the cloud. For example, use Auto Scaling groups instead of a fixed number of EC2 instances; use RDS instead of self-built MySQL; use S3 instead of local disk storage for files
Automated management: Includes Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automated monitoring, and alerting, transforming operation and maintenance work from "manual operations" to "code execution"
Data-driven optimization: Based on cloud platform monitoring data (CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, etc.), regularly analyze resource utilization, cost composition, and performance bottlenecks, then make adjustments such as downscaling low-load instances, purchasing reserved instances, and adding read replicas

Through these three core logics, enterprises can achieve:
The system automatically scales up to handle traffic during peaks and automatically scales down to save costs during troughs
Unified management interfaces and APIs reduce complexity
Pay-as-you-go eliminates idle waste

V. Core Capability Modules (In-depth Breakdown)

1. Cloud Resource Elasticity Capability (Foundation Core)

The core value of cloud computing lies in resources can be used on demand and dynamically adjusted.

Core Capabilities:

✔ Elastic computing resources (on-demand scaling)
✔ Dynamic storage allocation
✔ Automatic network bandwidth adjustment
✔ Auto scaling during peak periods

Low Load → Fewer Resources
High Load → Auto Scaling
Recovery → Automatic Recycling

Achieve Transformation：
Fixed Resources → Elastic Resources → Dynamic Optimization

Elasticity is the most distinctive feature of cloud computing compared to traditional IT. In traditional environments, to handle business peaks, enterprises must purchase servers according to peak resource requirements, and these resources are idle most of the time. On the cloud, we can set up elastic scaling policies: for example, when the average CPU utilization exceeds 70%, automatically add an application server; when CPU is below 30%, automatically remove one.

Storage can also be elastically expanded: cloud disks support online expansion, object storage has theoretically unlimited capacity, and database storage space can be automatically increased. Network bandwidth can also be dynamically adjusted, for example, in conjunction with CDN and load balancing, automatically increasing the bandwidth limit during traffic peaks.

With this elastic capability, enterprises only need to pay for the resources they actually use and can handle sudden traffic without manual intervention. Magicsoft will help enterprises configure reasonable elastic strategies based on historical traffic patterns and expected growth to avoid "over-elasticity" (frequent scaling causing jitter) or "under-elasticity" (insufficient scaling leading to crashes)

2. Distributed and High-concurrency Architecture (Performance Core)

As business grows, monolithic systems cannot meet high-concurrency requirements.

Architecture Capabilities:

✔ Distributed system design
✔ Microservice architecture
✔ Load balancing
✔ High-concurrency processing capability

Monolithic System → Distributed System → High-concurrency Architecture

Value Brought：
→ Support large-scale user access
→ Improve system stability
→ Support rapid business growth

Monolithic architecture: Packages all functional modules (user, order, product, payment) into one application. The advantage is simple development, but the disadvantage is that any modification to a module requires redeploying the entire application, and expansion can only be done by replicating the entire application instance. As business scales, monolithic applications become bloated and difficult to maintain, and the database becomes a bottleneck

Distributed system: Splits different functions into independently deployed services (microservices), which communicate through lightweight protocols (such as HTTP/REST, gRPC). Each service can be independently developed, deployed, and scaled. For example, if the payment service needs more resources, only the number of payment service instances can be scaled up, while the user service remains unchanged

High-concurrency processing also includes:

Using caching (Redis) to reduce database pressure
Using message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ) to smooth out traffic peaks and valleys
Using read-write separation and database sharding to expand database capabilities

Magicsoft will assess the current business situation, design appropriate service splitting boundaries and communication protocols, and guide the team to smoothly evolve from monolithic to distributed architectures to avoid over-engineering

3. Cloud Platform Deployment Capability (Flexible Architecture)

Based on enterprise needs, supports multiple cloud deployment modes:

Mode	Description	Applicable Scenario
Public Cloud	AWS, etc.	Quick launch
Private Cloud	Enterprise internal deployment	High security requirements
Hybrid Cloud	Local + cloud	Flexible expansion

Single Deployment → Multi-cloud Architecture → Flexible Scheduling

Achieve：
→ Flexible deployment
→ Data security
→ Balance between cost and performance

Public Cloud: The most common choice, enterprises do not need to build their own data centers, can use out of the box, pay as you go, suitable for most internet businesses
Private Cloud: Deployed behind the enterprise's internal firewall, fully controlled by the enterprise itself, suitable for industries with extremely high requirements for data sovereignty and compliance (such as government, finance, healthcare). Private clouds can also be built using open-source solutions (such as OpenStack) or commercial solutions (such as VMware), and Magicsoft provides design, deployment, and operation and maintenance services
Hybrid Cloud: Combines the advantages of public and private clouds: core sensitive data remains in the private cloud, and sudden computing needs (such as promotional activities) are offloaded to the public cloud. Hybrid clouds require network connectivity (dedicated lines or VPN) and unified resource scheduling and monitoring

Magicsoft also considers multi-cloud architectures to avoid single cloud vendor lock-in, achieving high availability and cost optimization through cross-cloud load balancing and data synchronization. We will recommend the most suitable deployment mode based on the enterprise's business type, data sensitivity, budget, and team capabilities, and help with implementation

4. Automated Operation and Maintenance Capability (Efficiency Core)

Through an automated operation and maintenance system, reduce labor costs and error rates:

Core Capabilities:

✔ Automated deployment
✔ Auto scaling
✔ Automated monitoring
✔ Automated recovery

System Operation → Automated Monitoring → Automated Handling → Continuous Stability

Achieve：
Manual Operation and Maintenance → Automated Operation and Maintenance → Intelligent Operation and Maintenance

Automated deployment: After developers submit code, the CI/CD pipeline automatically builds, tests, and deploys to the target environment without operation and maintenance intervention
Auto scaling: Automatically increase or decrease instances based on load metrics
Automated monitoring: The system automatically collects metrics, logs, and tracing data, and displays them visually without manual server login for viewing
Automated recovery: When an unhealthy instance is detected (such as HTTP 5xx errors persisting beyond the threshold), it is automatically removed from the load balancer and replaced by a new instance; if the database primary fails, failover is automatically triggered

Going a step further, intelligent operation and maintenance uses machine learning to analyze historical data, predict when disks will be full and when traffic will peak, issue early warnings, and even automatically execute response plans.

Magicsoft will help enterprises build automated operation and maintenance systems based on cloud-native tools, such as using AWS's Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, and Lambda to implement auto scaling and self-healing, and using Terraform to implement Infrastructure as Code, freeing operation and maintenance personnel from repetitive work to focus on architecture optimization and automation tool development

5. Security and Compliance Capability (Enterprise Guarantee)

In cloud environments, security must be designed systematically:

Core Capabilities:

✔ Network isolation
✔ Data encryption
✔ Permission management
✔ Security monitoring

Risk Identification → Protection → Monitoring → Response

Value Brought：
→ Data security
→ System stability
→ Compliance guarantee

Cloud security follows the "Shared Responsibility Model": cloud vendors are responsible for the security of underlying infrastructure, while enterprises are responsible for the security of applications and data they deploy on the cloud. Magicsoft helps enterprises build a defense-in-depth system on the cloud.

Network isolation: Use VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to divide network boundaries, and use security groups and network ACLs to implement fine-grained access control, prohibiting direct public network access to sensitive services such as databases and Redis

Data encryption: Includes transport encryption (TLS/SSL) and storage encryption (enable encryption for cloud disks, object storage, and databases), with key management using the cloud vendor's KMS service

Permission management: Based on the principle of least privilege, assign different IAM policies to different roles (development, operation and maintenance, audit), and enforce multi-factor authentication

Security monitoring: Enable cloud vendor threat detection services (such as GuardDuty), security event management (such as Security Hub), and operation auditing (CloudTrail), and integrate third-party security tools (such as WAF, host security Agent)

Compliance: Help enterprises meet standards such as GB/T 22239, GDPR, and PCI-DSS, including log retention, data classification, and access auditing

Through systematic security design, enterprises can reduce security risks to an acceptable level

VI. Cost Optimization and Resource Management (Business Core)

One of the ultimate goals of cloud computing is to reduce overall IT costs.

Optimization Strategies:

✔ Resource on-demand allocation
✔ Auto scaling
✔ Storage optimization
✔ Cost monitoring

Resource Usage → Data Analysis → Optimized Configuration → Cost Reduction

Achieve：
Uncontrollable Costs → Transparent Costs → Cost Optimization

Cost optimization is the most concerned topic for many cloud-migrating enterprises. Magicsoft has a mature cost optimization framework.

First is "resource on-demand allocation": Many enterprises are accustomed to purchasing large-spec instances "just in case", but actual utilization is extremely low. We will recommend appropriate instance specifications based on monitoring data analysis, typically saving over 30%.

Second is "auto scaling": Use Auto Scaling to keep only a small number of instances during non-peak periods and automatically scale up during peak periods, avoiding payment for idle resources.

Third is "storage optimization": Identify cold data (such as logs not accessed for more than 30 days) and migrate it from expensive SSD storage to low-cost object storage (such as S3 Standard-Infrequent Access) or archive storage (such as Glacier Deep Archive), reducing costs by over 80%.

Fourth is "billing model optimization": Purchase reserved instances (1-year or 3-year terms) for stable workloads, saving 40-60% compared to on-demand instances; use spot instances for interruptible batch processing tasks, reducing costs by 60-90%.

Finally is "cost monitoring": Use tools such as Cost Explorer, budget alerts, and bill analysis to make costs transparent and set alerts to prevent budget overruns.

Magicsoft will regularly provide customers with cost optimization reports and assist in implementing optimization measures to ensure cloud expenditures remain at a reasonable level

VII. Applicable Business Scenarios

Scenario	Solution
E-commerce Platform	High concurrency + elastic scaling
SaaS Platform	Multi-tenant architecture
Financial System	High security and high availability
Cross-border Business	Global node deployment

E-commerce Platform: Characterized by severe traffic fluctuations, we focus on designing elastic scaling and high-concurrency architectures, combining technologies such as CDN, caching, read-write separation, and message queues to ensure stable operation during large promotions

SaaS Platform: Needs to support multi-tenancy. Based on the number of tenants and isolation requirements, we design solutions such as shared databases, schema isolation, or independent instances, and use containerization to achieve tenant resource isolation and rapid launch

Financial System: Has extremely high requirements for security and availability. We adopt private or hybrid clouds, design multi-availability zone disaster recovery, data encryption, operation auditing, and WAF protection to ensure compliance requirements are met

Cross-border Business: Needs global acceleration. We use cloud vendors' global backbone networks, deploy multi-region nodes, and use intelligent DNS resolution and global load balancing to achieve low-latency access

Magicsoft has successful cases and reference architectures in various industries, enabling rapid replication of best practices

VIII. Capability Evolution Path (Enterprise Growth Perspective)

   Traditional IT Architecture
      ↓
   Basic Cloud Migration
      ↓
   Cloud Architecture Optimization
      ↓
   Cloud-native Architecture
      ↓
   Intelligent Cloud Platform

Traditional IT Architecture: Self-built data centers, physical servers, monolithic applications, complex management and maintenance
Basic Cloud Migration: Migrate physical servers to cloud virtual machines (such as EC2), enjoying the benefits of pay-as-you-go and no data center maintenance, but the architecture remains unchanged with limited elasticity
Cloud Architecture Optimization: Use cloud services such as load balancing, auto scaling, managed databases, and object storage, making the architecture initially elastic and highly available
Cloud-native Architecture: Fully adopt technologies such as containers, K8s, microservices, service meshes, and serverless, making full use of cloud platform capabilities to achieve elasticity, observability, and automation
Intelligent Cloud Platform: Based on cloud-native, introduce AIOps to achieve intelligent alerting, automated repair, capacity prediction, and cost optimization, with almost fully automated operation and maintenance

Magicsoft can help enterprises start from any stage, plan a clear evolution path, and provide corresponding technical solutions and training at each stage

IX. Core Advantages (Enhance Competitiveness)

✔ Full-stack cloud computing capabilities (resources + architecture + operation and maintenance): We don't just sell cloud resources, but provide end-to-end solutions from underlying infrastructure to upper-layer application architecture and operation and maintenance management
✔ Support high concurrency and large-scale business: Based on our years of experience serving customers in e-commerce, finance, social networking, and other fields, our architecture designs can support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of requests per second
✔ Outstanding cost optimization capability: Can help customers save an average of over 30% on cloud expenses, and many customers save more in one year than our service fees
✔ Deep integration with DevOps and AWS: Our solutions are not just theoretical, but seamlessly integrate with toolchains such as CI/CD, containers, and monitoring. All architectures are based on AWS best practices and can be directly implemented. Magicsoft's consultant team holds AWS expert certifications to ensure solution professionalism

X. Final Capabilities Gained by Customers

From the enterprise perspective, customers gain:

System Stability → Flexible Expansion → Cost Control → Efficient Operation and Maintenance

System Stability: Through multi-availability zone deployment, automated failover, and monitoring alerts, reduce annual downtime to minutes
Flexible Expansion: No need for downtime when business grows; just adjust scaling policies or add nodes, and the system automatically adapts
Cost Control: Through auto scaling, pay-as-you-go, and resource optimization, monthly cloud bills are predictable, and the cost curve with business growth is much lower than traditional IT
Efficient Operation and Maintenance: Automated operation and maintenance allows one person to manage hundreds of servers, transforming operation and maintenance personnel from "firefighters" to "optimizers"

These four capabilities are the core competitiveness of enterprise IT infrastructure in the digital era. Magicsoft's cloud computing solution helps enterprises systematically acquire these capabilities

XI. Summary (Enhance Conversion)

Magicsoft's Cloud Computing Solution not only provides cloud resources but also helps enterprises build a complete set of:

👉 High-performance architecture
👉 Highly available system
👉 Automated operation and maintenance
👉 Cost optimization system

We don't just provide simple "cloud server purchase recommendations"; instead, we design the most suitable cloud-based technical foundation starting from business goals. We deliver not only architecture diagrams but also operational cloud environments, automated scripts, monitoring dashboards, and cost analysis reports.

More importantly, we will transfer knowledge to the enterprise's internal development and operation and maintenance teams, enabling them to have independent operation and maintenance and optimization capabilities.

Magicsoft is committed to being a long-term partner for enterprises in their cloud transformation journey, growing together with the business

Final Achievement:

IT Support → Technical Platform → Business Engine → Growth Infrastructure

If you are struggling with various problems in traditional IT architectures, or have already moved to the cloud but have not achieved expected results, welcome to contact Magicsoft's cloud computing experts. We can provide you with a free cloud maturity assessment to analyze bottlenecks, cost waste points, and security risks in your current architecture, and issue a detailed optimization plan.

Let cloud computing truly become a powerful engine for your business growth, rather than a new cost burden