Strength | Lighthouse | CVM | |
Target user | | SMEs and individual developers | Large enterprises |
Lightweight scenario-oriented | | Lightweight use cases: Enterprise websites, blogs, forums, news, and product display General web applications WeChat mini programs and mini games Mobile apps, H5 apps, and WeChat Official Account E-commerce shops, individual websites Cloud storage and image hosting services Cloud-based development, testing, and learning environments | Use cases with complex architectures: High-concurrency websites Large games Complex distributed cluster applications Video encoding/decoding Big data analysis Machine learning and deep learning |
Favorable pricing | Selling method | Cost-effective bundles (combinations of computing/network/storage resources) | Flexible selection of computing/storage/network resources that are billed independently |
| Network billing | High-bandwidth data transfer plan | Fixed bandwidth/traffic usage |
Simpler use | Console operation | Integrated, independent, and simplified console | For all services, with more details of CVM, VPC, EIP, and security group involved |
| Application creation | Out-of-the-box and premium official application images, preset with the optimal combination of software stacks required by the application system Application creation in one minute as well as automatic installation of application software and runtime environment and initialization configuration | Application creation on your own |
| Networking | Automatic network resource creation without manual management needed | Network creation, configuration, and management on your own |
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