ESA at Apsara 2026: eleven capabilities - seven shipped, four from the conference - grouped under AI acceleration, AI security, and agent runtime.
Fast mainland China access from an overseas origin: ESA Access Optimization routes users without ICP, no local build-out.
Attackers can bypass ESA and hit your origin directly. Origin Protection whitelists ESA POP IPs at your load balancer or firewall, so only vetted traffic gets through.
ESA's multi-level cache gives every request multiple chances to hit cache: edge, regional, and cold-storage tiers, before reaching your origin.
Alibaba Cloud OSS (Object Storage Service) is a solid storage backend, but exposing it directly to the internet has drawbacks: the bucket domain is vi.
As AI becomes increasingly widespread, developing AI-powered web scrapers or using AI to generate scraping code has become remarkably straightforward.
ESA Smart Routing solves this by leveraging 3,200+ global points of presence to continuously probe network conditions and select the optimal path for .
Operations depend on logs. Alibaba Cloud ESA provides log delivery. Agent Skills let AI assistants query logs with natural language.
ESA Functions&Pages provide the capability to host lightweight website on it's serverless infrastructure, which is also called Edge Routine.
Here's where it gets interesting for practitioners. While post-quantum cryptography might sound like something that requires complex migration project...
This article provides a deep-dive into the protocol-level mechanics of Domain Fronting and demonstrates how Alibaba Cloud ESA (Edge Security Accelerat...
The most common question I get from ESA customers: "can I serve static files from OSS and route API calls to ECS - under a single domain?" This PoC proves the answer is yes, and shows exactly how.
As SaaS platforms scale, managing hundreds or thousands of customer-facing domains becomes a critical operational bottleneck.
To the ones who are still using CDN, I can only say that you're out. Alibaba Cloud launched the ESA to replace the DCDN few years ago, and DCDN is the updated CDN.
