Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC)

What Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC) is

Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC) creates and manages cloud server instances, with elastic scaling and adjustable instances and bandwidth. Its instance families cover general-purpose, compute-optimized, storage-optimized, GPU, and FPGA workloads. Deployments can start from public, marketplace, service integration, or custom images, and BCC can connect with private data centers in a hybrid cloud. It is available through web, API, Linux, and Windows. APIs support creating, stopping, querying, reinstalling, and releasing instances; remote access options are Client, SmartTerm, and VNC.

Operational features include multi-layer DDoS protection, failover completed in seconds, automatic snapshot backups, monitoring alerts for different business scenarios, and an instance-level virtual firewall with inbound and outbound rules based on IP address and port. The product page states a data durability rate of 99.9999999%. Postpaid use is billed by the minute, rounding partial minutes up to a full minute. For the Postpaid BCC instance plan, deductions occur every 15 minutes and statements are hourly. Prepaid instances require an upfront payment, while reserved instances have one- or three-year terms and offset matching postpaid bills. Prices vary by instance configuration and region. Creating an instance requires real-name certification.

Who it suits

BCC suits teams that need configurable cloud servers, elastic capacity, or a hybrid connection to private data centers. Its range of instance families, image choices, APIs, and remote access options also suits users managing varied server workloads.

Limits

Postpaid instance creation requires the account balance combined with general coupons to exceed RMB 100. Prepaid instances require an upfront payment for a term of 1–9 months or 1–3 years; reserved instances require a one- or three-year commitment and matching configuration and availability zone.

Getting started

1. Visit the Baidu Cloud Compute product website.
2. Choose a postpaid, prepaid, or reserved-instance billing option.
3. Complete real-name certification to create an instance.
4. For postpaid instance creation, ensure the account balance and general coupons together exceed RMB 100.
5. Select an instance family and deploy from a public, marketplace, service integration, or custom image.
6. Manage the instance through the API or access it remotely with Client, SmartTerm, or VNC.

Verdict

Choose BCC if you need cloud server instances with varied configurations, scaling controls, APIs, or hybrid-cloud connectivity. Instance creation requires real-name certification.