Advanced Computing Performance
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest CPUs to help you to power your cloud applications and achieve faster results with low latency.
Deploy ECS instances with just a few clicks from the easy-to-use console and scale capacity up or down based on real-time demands.
High Availability
Alibaba Cloud ECS provides the high SLA commitment for both single instance and multiple instances in multiple availability zones among the top cloud providers worldwide. Alibaba Cloud gained lots of experience of running infrastructure at large scale while maintaining high availability. We are currently supporting major e-commerce platforms in China such as Taobao and Tmall and we work closely with scientists from DAMO Academy to accurately predict, prevent and mitigate infrastructure issues without impacting our customers.
Technology Leadership
On top of the world-class customized components from our various vendors, Alibaba Cloud invested heavily on the Research & Development of our ECS product. Over the time, we developed X-Dragon compute platform, including the self-developed SOC, hardware acceleration card, as well as the Dragonfly lightweight hypervisor.Our Technology leadership provides a foundation for the high performance, availability, elasticity, scalability and security you enjoyed in our ECS products.
Elasticity
As the largest cloud provider in China and the 3rd largest cloud provider worldwide by revenue , Alibaba Cloud ECS has the scale to provide high elasticity that can meet your business needs instantly. We can provide hundreds of thousands of vCPUs in minutes for a single customer in a single region, that is because of our sophisticated smart placement algorithm, dynamic and automatic planing as well as our optimization of both hardware and software.
System Disk: 100GB
Traffic: CDT: 200GB of free quota/month
Quantity: 1 instance
$29.00/year
System Disk: 100GB
Traffic: CDT: 200GB of free quota/month
Quantity: 1 instance
$49.00/year
System Disk: 100GB
Traffic: CDT: 200GB of free quota/month
Quantity: 1 instance
$99.00/year
System Disk: 100GB
Traffic: CDT: 200GB of free quota/month
Quantity: 1 instance
$199.00/year
Specification: ecs.u1-c1m2.large (2vcpu4G), 80GB ESSD PL0, 1Mbps bandwidth
Quantity: 1 instance
Specifications: ecs.t5-lc1m1.small (1vcpu1G), 40GB system disk, 1Mbps bandwidth
Quantity: 1 instance
System Disk: 20GB
Bandwidth: 1 Mbps
Quantity: 1 instance
From $3.90/month
System Disk: 40GB ESSD
Bandwidth: 1 Mbps
Quantity: 1 instance
From $28.71/month
Small- and medium-sized enterprise applications
Websites and application servers
Data analytics and computing
Small- and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
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Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as bullet screen and re-transmission of telecommunication information
Game Servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, cache, and search clusters
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and Application Servers
Simple Application Server is a compute service that is designed for single-server scenarios.
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g6:6000000 pps
g5:4000000 pps
Frontend servers of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games
Web Frontend Servers
Data analysis, batch compute, and video encoding
High-performance science and engineering applications
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
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c6:6000000 pps
High-performance and in-memory databases
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as bullet screen and re-transmission of telecommunication information
Data analysis and mining, and distributed memory cache
Hadoop, Spark, and other memory-intensive enterprise applications
Scenarios that require secure and trusted computing
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r6:6000000 pps
r5:4000000 pps
Benefits
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High Availability
Alibaba Cloud ECS ensures data reliability and high availability by adopting stringent IDC standards, server access standards, and O&M standards.
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Secure
Alibaba Cloud ECS is in the scope ISO 27001 and MTCS certifications that Alibaba Cloud has acheived. With Alibaba Cloud ECS, the confidentiality of user data and user information is secured while the user privacy is protected.
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Elasticity
Alibaba Cloud ECS features elastic computing, storage, networking, and business architecture planning. You can leverage such elasticity to integrate your businesses as needed.
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Reliable
Alibaba Cloud ECS offers an industry-leading SLA, with a commitment of 99.975% availability for individual instances and a commitment of 99.995% availability for multiple zones within the same region.
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Flexible Billing Methods
Alibaba Cloud ECS provides multiple billing methods to cater to the cost-effectiveness requirements in different scenarios. These include Subscription (by year or by month), Pay-As-You-Go, Preemptible instance, Instance reservation, and more. Besides, a unique pay-by-bandwidth method is designed to support resource saving during public network access .
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Deploy and Grow Globally
Alibaba Cloud ECS is available in 28 regions around the globe. You can deploy your instances in any of the regions while managing them with one global account.
Product Updates
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2022-3-25 New FeaturesSupports Community Image Explore More
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2021-5-28 New FeaturesAMD MILAN Architecture-based 7th-generation Instance Families Released Explore More
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2021-4-19 New FeaturesSeventh-generation General-purpose, Compute-optimized, and Memory-optimized Instance Families Released Explore More
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2021-1-11 New FeaturesSupports Access to Instance Metadata in Security-hardening Mode Explore More
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2020-8-19 New FeaturesSupports Diagnosis Explore More
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2020-6-24 New FeaturesNumber of IP Addresses Assigned to ECS Instances Increased Explore More
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2020-6-9 New FeaturesFeature of Change VPCs for Subscription ECS Instances in Invitational Preview Explore More
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2020-5-29 Experience EnhancementsSupports Execution of Remote Commands from the Instances Details Page Explore More
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2020-5-22 Experience EnhancementsSupports Isolation of Damaged Disks in Instances Equipped with Local Disks in the ECS Console Explore More
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2020-5-11 New FeaturesSupports the Creation of Instances that Support Advanced VPC Features Explore More
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2020-4-22 New FeaturesSupports the Instance Maintenance Attribute Explore More
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2020-4-1 New FeaturesSupports Access to Instance Metadata in Security-enhanced Mode Explore More
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2020-1-1 New FeaturesWorkbench Released Explore More
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2019-9-29 Experience EnhancementsSupports Selecting ECS Instances by Tag Explore More
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2019-9-29 Experience EnhancementsUser Experience Optimized Explore More
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2019-9-6 New FeaturesBig Data Instances Support Disk Replacement Explore More
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2019-8-12 New FeaturesSupports Reserved Instances Explore More
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2019-4-1 New FeaturesWindows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition Image Updated Explore More
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2019-4-1 New FeaturesWindows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition Image Updated Explore More
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2019-4-1 New FeaturesImage of Windows Server V1809 Datacenter Edition Updated Explore More
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2019-4-1 New FeaturesWindows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Image Updated Explore More
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2019-3-21 New FeaturesReleases Migration Tool V1.5.0.8 Explore More
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2019-3-19 New FeaturesCoreOS Image Updated Explore More
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2019-3-14 New FeaturesReleases Migration Tool V1.5.0.5 Explore More
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2019-3-11 New FeaturesReleases Cloud Migration Tool V1.5.0 Explore More
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2019-2-28 Experience EnhancementsCloud Assistant Supports ECS Bare Metal Instances Explore More
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2019-2-25 New FeaturesCentOS 7 Image Updated Explore More
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2019-2-2 New FeaturesCloud Migration Tool Version 1.3.2.5 Released Explore More
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2019-1-29 New FeaturesECS Instance Status Change Events and Preemptable Instance Release Notifications Explore More
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2019-1-17 Experience EnhancementsOptimizes Logic of Comparison Between Faces and Data Sources Explore More
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2019-1-11 Experience EnhancementsImproved Efficiency of Exporting Images Three to Five Times Higher Explore More
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2018-12-31 Experience EnhancementsCloud Assistant Available in the UK (London) Region Explore More
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2018-12-27 New FeaturesDebian 9.6 Mirrored Released Explore More
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2018-12-27 New FeaturesCentOS 7.6 Mirrored Released Explore More
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2018-12-27 New FeaturesUbuntu 18.04 Mirror Released Explore More
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2018-12-27 New FeaturesCentOS 7.5 Mirror Released Explore More
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2018-12-17 Pricing UpdatesSupport Pay-by-Second fora Preemptible Instance Explore More
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2018-12-14 New FeaturesSecure Method to Release Pay-As-You-Go Instances Explore More
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2018-12-4 Experience EnhancementsInvoking DescribeNetworkInterfaces to Return EIP Addresses Explore More
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2018-12-1 New FeaturesRelease of 50 GB Data Transfer Plan by International Site Explore More
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2018-11-30 New Featuresre4e.40xlarge Memory-Optimized Instances Released Explore More
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2018-11-30 New FeaturesCreating ECS Images Using Packer Explore More
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2018-11-29 New FeaturesSupport for Subscription Disk Mounting Explore More
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2018-11-23 New FeaturesFiltering Cloud Resources by Global Tags Explore More
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2018-11-23 New FeaturesFiltering Cloud Resources by Global Tags Explore More
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2018-11-16 New FeaturesRelease of Alibaba Cloud Deployment Set Explore More
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2018-11-3 New Featurest5 Unlimited Instances Available to All Users Explore More
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2018-10-19 New FeaturesOpen API Best Practices Released in the ECS Console Explore More
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2018-9-30 Pricing UpdatesPrice Reduction for Some ECS Instance Specification Families in China North 3 Regions Starts on September 30 Explore More
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2018-9-28 New FeaturesHigh-precision Time Synchronization Service Based on Full Coverage of Regions Explore More
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2018-9-14 Experience EnhancementsSystem Events for Instance Maintenance Supported in Instance Metadata Explore More
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2018-9-14 Experience EnhancementsInstance Health Status Supported on ECS Instance Details Page Explore More
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2018-9-7 New FeaturesFeatures of Renewing and Repurchasing Multiple Instances Released Explore More
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2018-9-3 New FeaturesECS provides open APIs for simulating system events Explore More
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2018-8-31 Experience EnhancementsEnhanced maintenance experience of ECS instances on physical disks Explore More
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2018-8-31 Experience EnhancementsECS system events support overdue payment notifications Explore More
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2018-8-17 New FeaturesECS console supports cloud assistant to meet your O&M requirements Explore More
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2018-8-13 New FeaturesEIP supports binding ENI with Open API Explore More
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2018-7-9 New FeaturesECS-Intensive computing instance type family ic5 released Explore More
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2018-6-29 Experience EnhancementsECS - When creating an ECS instance, you are allowed to select lower versions of Red Hat and other operating systems Explore More
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2018-6-22 New FeaturesECS - Support for using the password preset in the image when creating ECSs Explore More
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2018-6-22 New FeaturesECS resource manager - Security group High-risk port alerts and repetitive rule alerts Explore More
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2018-6-20 New ReleasesSQL Server image is available in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace Explore More
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2018-6-15 New FeaturesConfiguration change of postpaid instances and real-time configuration downgrade are supported across different versions Explore More
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2018-6-15 New FeaturesThe original password can be retained when you create an instance using a custom image Explore More
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2018-6-6 Experience EnhancementsFunctional grouping of the instance list Explore More
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2018-6-6 New FeaturesSub-accounts are supported when the ECS console is degraded Explore More
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2018-6-6 New FeaturesOne-click cloning of ECS console classic2vpc security group Explore More
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2018-6-5 New FeaturesAlibaba Cloud server - price download function released Explore More
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2018-6-4 Experience EnhancementsECS - Support for setting a minimum purchase quantity when creating ECSs Explore More
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2018-6-1 New FeaturesSecurity group optimizing project Explore More
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2018-6-1 New FeaturesPhase II of active operation and maintenance is fully released Explore More
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2018-5-28 Experience EnhancementsThe individual ECS sales page of the image market is integrated into the official website ECS sales page Explore More
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2018-5-25 New FeaturesECS system events support history query Explore More
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2018-5-25 New FeaturesECS system events connected to CloudMonitor Explore More
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2018-5-11 New FeaturesECS instance LaunchTemplate released Explore More
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2018-5-9 New ReleasesRHEL 7.5 image released Explore More
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2018-5-4 New FeaturesECS resource group connected with snapshots, security groups, images, and key pairs Explore More
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2018-4-13 New FeaturesConfiguration change is supported during the renewal for expired subscription ECS instances Explore More
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2018-4-1 New FeaturesECS instance new purchase and configuration change support system disks of 20 GB capacity Explore More
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2018-4-1 Pricing UpdatesPrice adjustment of ECS enterprise instances and entry-level instances based on the latest Skylake+25G network in domestic regions Explore More
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2018-3-26 New FeaturesECS instance system event feature released Explore More
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2018-3-1 New FeaturesAlibaba Cloud ECS instance identifier feature released Explore More
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2018-2-10 New FeaturesECS releases available resource query API for configuration upgrade and downgrade Explore More
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2018-2-2 New FeaturesECS releases a query API to facilitate resource creation Explore More
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2018-1-19 Experience EnhancementsECS international sites updated instance creation pages Explore More
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2018-1-18 Experience EnhancementsECS console instance search optimization enhanced Explore More
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2017-12-23 New FeaturesFour international regions added for launching the performance burst instance T5 Explore More
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2017-10-31 New FeaturesRAM role feature of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances released Explore More
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2017-10-18 New FeaturesPreemptible Instances Available in All Alibaba Cloud Regions Explore More
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2017-9-18 New ReleasesPreemptible ECS Instance Released Explore More
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2017-9-18 New ReleasesLaunched Alibaba Cloud ECS bidding instances Explore More
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2017-8-10 New FeaturesAlibaba Cloud ECS Image Import is made openly available Explore More
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