Microfinance Zone
Microfinance Zone overview
The Microfinance Zone is an Alibaba Cloud cloud computing service tailored for the microfinance industry. It provides highly available, stable, and low-cost cloud computing services to meet the industry's specific needs. This helps microfinance companies easily manage business growth.
The microfinance industry includes sectors such as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, micro-lending, and crowdfunding. The Alibaba Cloud Microfinance Zone no longer accepts new service requests. However, existing services will continue to be supported.
Comparison between Finance Cloud and the Microfinance Zone
Finance Cloud is a cloud platform that provides solutions for industries such as banking, securities, funds, and insurance. The Microfinance Zone is a sub-brand of Finance Cloud that provides solutions for industries such as P2P lending, micro-lending, and crowdfunding.
Both provide intra-city active-active disaster recovery. Finance Cloud also offers optional geo-disaster recovery, which uses a three data centers across two regions architecture.
Finance Cloud is available in multiple regions. The Microfinance Zone is only available in the China (Hangzhou) region.
Price: Finance Cloud costs about 30% more than the Microfinance Zone.
Microfinance Zone value-added services
Exclusive high-specification physical clusters.
An intra-city active-active disaster recovery pattern and high-security physical clusters ensure that applications run 24/7.
Microfinance Zone customers receive a special high-security traffic scrubbing capacity of 5 Gbps for DDoS protection.
The security team monitors customer ports exposed to the Internet in real time. If a security risk is found, the team immediately notifies the customer to apply a patch.
A professional team of after-sales engineers provides 24/7 technical service. The team responds quickly and handles customer requests efficiently.