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A sub-second response time in cloud computing? Yes, with QingCloud, you can

  • China
  • 3 min read
  • Jun 01, 2018
  • By Irene Wang

Unusually for China, this five-year old startup chose to pursue slow expansion instead of a rapid growth model – a move that's now giving it an edge over the competition

Cloud computing, a rapidly growing field, has attracted a lot of public attention. There is one particularly eye-catching “green cloud” in China: QingCloud.
QingCloud is the world’s first cloud service provider that can deliver IT resources in seconds. Its remarkable speed meant QingCloud could provide clients with a per second billing system as early as 2013, a huge improvement over Google’s per minute and Amazon's per hour billing systems (Amazon did not adopt a per second billing model with a one-minute minimum until 2017).
Three years after QingCloud’s...

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Edited by Wendy Lovinger , Wang Xiao'e

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