| You can purchase a batch of elastic bare metal servers through simple operations on the console, quickly build or expand your business cluster, and flexibly respond to business peaks. In general, you can add and unsubscribe elastic bare metal servers within a few minutes. | Self built IDC has poor flexibility. At the same time, operations such as goods preparation, purchase cycle, online operation and maintenance, and network/storage/business system configuration need to be considered. It takes a long period to complete cluster expansion and online. |
| The BBC provides web console, API, SDK and other methods. You can access and operate the server according to your usage habits. | When it is necessary to access or manage the server, it is necessary to contact the on-site operation and maintenance personnel or build a special operation and maintenance system, which is very convenient. |
| BBC can use elastic public network IP, VPC and other network services, as well as BCM monitoring services, giving you the same experience as ECS. | The pure physical machine cluster needs to build its own internal and external network configuration, and set monitoring functions separately, such as indicator alarm, visualization and other functions. |
| The BBC provides a diversified purchase mode of monthly subscription (prepaid) and pay as you go (post paid). You can choose to match the peak and low peak of the business to purchase and release BBC products, thereby significantly reducing operating costs. | The traditional data center needs to plan the purchase and online rhythm of servers in advance to accurately meet the peak demand of business. While producing high CapEx, it is also prone to excessive server performance. |
Efficient operation and maintenance | Baidu Intelligent Cloud has a professional operation and maintenance team and spare parts library in the data center, and engineers will quickly deal with server or network equipment failures. | For traditional IDC, you usually need to purchase additional maintenance services provided by IDC and server manufacturers. |