This topic describes all Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance families available for purchase and introduces their features, instance types, and supported scenarios to facilitate instance type selection.
Background information
Before you read further in this topic, you must be familiar with the following information:
Classification and naming of instance types. Familiarize yourself with the instance family categories, naming conventions of instance types, and differences between instance families. For more information, see Classification and naming of instance types.
Instance type metrics. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics. You can also call the DescribeInstanceTypeFamilies and DescribeInstanceTypes operations to query the instance families and the details of all instance types provided by ECS.
Instructions for selecting instance types based on your business scenarios. For more information, see Instance type selection.
After you determine an instance type for your use case, you may need to learn about the following information:
Regions in which the instance type is available for purchase. Instance types that are available for purchase vary based on the region. You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available for purchase in each region. Alternatively, you can call the DescribeRegions and DescribeZones operations to query the available regions and the zones in a specific region.
Estimated instance costs. You can calculate the price of instances that uses different billing methods in the Price Calculator. You can also call the DescribePrice operation to query information about the most recent prices of ECS resources.
Instructions for purchasing an instance. You can go to the ECS instance buy page to place a purchase order for instances.
You may be concerned about the following information:
Retired instance families. If you cannot find an instance type in this topic, the instance type may be in a retired instance family. For information about retired instance families, see Retired instance families.
Supported instance type changes. Before you change the instance type of an instance, check whether the instance type can be changed and identify compatible instance types. For more information, see Instance types and families that support instance type changes.
Catalog
x86-based enterprise-level computing instance families
General-purpose instance families (g series)
Intel processor-powered instance families | AMD processor-powered instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.) |
Compute-optimized instance families (c series)
Intel processor-powered instance families | AMD processor-powered instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.) |
Memory-optimized instance families (r series)
Intel processor-powered instance families | AMD processor-powered instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.) |
Universal instance families
Bid data instance families (d series)
Recommended instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the recommended instance families.) |
Instance families with local SSDs (i series)
Recommended instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.) | ||
Instance families powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors | Instance families powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors | Instance families powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors | |
Instance families with high clock speeds (hf series)
Recommended instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.) | |
Instance families powered by Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors | Instance families powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors | |
Enhanced instance families
Storage-enhanced instance families | Network-enhanced instance families | Security-enhanced instance families | Memory-enhanced instance families |
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x86-based entry-level computing instance families
Recommended instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the recommended instance families.) |
Arm-based enterprise-level computing instance families
YiTian 710 processor-powered instance families | Ampere® Altra® processor-powered instance families |
ECS Bare Metal Instance families
Super Computing Cluster (SCC) instance families
Enterprise-level heterogeneous computing instance families
Recommended instance families | Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the recommended instance families.) |
x86-based enterprise-level computing instance families
g8a, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios: general-purpose enterprise-level applications such as Java, in-memory database and relational database applications, big data applications such as Kafka and Elasticsearch, web applications, AI training and inference, and audio and video transcoding applications.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.7 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa 9T24 processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
g8a instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g8a.large | 2 | 8 | 1.5/12.5 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20,000/110,000 | 1.5/10 |
ecs.g8a.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 2.5/12.5 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 30,000/110,000 | 2/10 |
ecs.g8a.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 4/12.5 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 45,000/110,000 | 2.5/10 |
ecs.g8a.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 7/12.5 | 2,000,000 | 300,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 60,000/110,000 | 3.5/10 |
ecs.g8a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10/25 | 3,000,000 | 600,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 80,000/110,000 | 5/10 |
ecs.g8a.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 16/25 | 4,500,000 | 750,000 | 48 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/none | 8/10 |
ecs.g8a.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 20/25 | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 160,000/none | 10/none |
ecs.g8a.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 32/none | 9,000,000 | 1,500,000 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 240,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.g8a.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 40/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 320,000/none | 20/none |
ecs.g8a.48xlarge | 192 | 768 | 64/none | 18,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 500,000/none | 32/none |
Packet forwarding rates significantly vary based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to select appropriate instance types.
For ecs.g8a.large and ecs.g8a.xlarge instances, you must enable the Jumbo Frames feature before the instances can burst their network bandwidths to 12.5 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
g8i, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios: scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, search promotion applications, websites, application servers, data analytics and computing, and scenarios that require secure and trusted computing.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids processors that deliver a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteWhen you purchase an instance of this instance family, the system randomly allocates one type of the preceding processors to the instance. You cannot select a processor type for the instance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
Supports Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME) to encrypt memory.
g8i instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g8i.large | 2 | 8 | 2.5/burstable up to 15 | 1,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 25,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 4/burstable up to 15 | 1,200,000 | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2.5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 6/burstable up to 15 | 1,600,000 | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 10/burstable up to 15 | 2,400,000 | Up to 300,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 80,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 12/burstable up to 25 | 3,000,000 | 350,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 100,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 15/burstable up to 25 | 4,500,000 | 500,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 7.5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 20/burstable up to 25 | 6,000,000 | 800,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000/none | 10/none |
ecs.g8i.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 25/none | 9,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 48 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 300,000/none | 12/none |
ecs.g8i.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 1,600,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 360,000/none | 20/none |
ecs.g8i.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 50/none | 18,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 500,000/none | 24/none |
ecs.g8i.48xlarge | 192 | 1,024 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 1,000,000/none | 48/none |
If you want to use the ecs.g8i.48xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
g8ae, performance-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios: AI scenarios such as deep learning, training, and AI inference, high-performance scientific computing scenarios such as high-performance computing (HPC), large and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, servers for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, and other general-purpose enterprise-level applications that require high performance.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 3.4 GHz AMD EPYC™ Genoa processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.75 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
g8ae instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Support for vTPM | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g8ae.large | 2 | 8 | 3/burstable up to 15 | 1,000,000 | Yes | Up to 300,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 30,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8ae.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 4/burstable up to 15 | 1,200,000 | Yes | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2.5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8ae.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 6/burstable up to 15 | 1,600,000 | Yes | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 3/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8ae.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 12/burstable up to 25 | 3,000,000 | Yes | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 100,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8ae.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 20/burstable up to 25 | 6,000,000 | Yes | 1,000,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000/none | 10/none |
ecs.g8ae.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 32/none | 9,000,000 | Yes | 1,500,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 250,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.g8ae.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 64/none | 18,000,000 | Yes | 3,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 500,000/none | 32/none |
For ecs.g8ae.large and ecs.g8ae.xlarge instances, you must enable the Jumbo Frames feature before the instances can burst their network bandwidths to 15 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
g7a, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: video encoding and decoding, scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, websites, application servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, game servers, scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested, and other general-purpose enterprise-level applications.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC™ MILAN processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g7a instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g7a.large | 2 | 8 | 1/burstable up to 10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 12,500/burstable up to 110,000 | 1/burstable up to 6 |
ecs.g7a.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5/burstable up to 10 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 20,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 1.5/burstable up to 6 |
ecs.g7a.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5/burstable up to 10 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 30,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 2/burstable up to 6 |
ecs.g7a.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5/burstable up to 10 | 2,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 60,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 3.7/burstable up to 10.5 |
ecs.g7a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 8/burstable up to 10 | 3,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 75,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 4.1/burstable up to 11 |
ecs.g7a.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 150,000/none | 8.2/none |
ecs.g7a-nps1.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 150,000/none | 8.2/none |
ecs.g7a.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 300,000/none | 16.4/none |
Ubuntu 16 and Debian 9 operating system kernels do not support AMD EPYC™ MILAN processors. Do not use Ubuntu 16 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this instance family. Instances of this instance family created from Ubuntu 16 or Debian 9 images cannot be started.
g7, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes, websites, application servers, data analytics and computing, scenarios that require secure and trusted computing, and blockchain scenarios.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
Supports the Enclave feature and provides virtualization-based confidential computing environments. For more information, see Build a confidential computing environment by using Enclave.
g7 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Support for vTPM | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Maximum attached data disks | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g7.large | 2 | 8 | 2/burstable up to 12.5 | 1,100,000 | Yes | Up to 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 20,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 1.5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g7.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 3/burstable up to 12.5 | 1,100,000 | Yes | Up to 500,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 40,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 2/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g7.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 5/burstable up to 15 | 1,600,000 | Yes | Up to 500,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 50,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 3/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g7.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 8/burstable up to 15 | 2,400,000 | Yes | Up to 500,000 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 70,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 4/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g7.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 10/burstable up to 25 | 3,000,000 | Yes | 500,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 80,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g7.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 12/burstable up to 25 | 4,500,000 | Yes | 550,000 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 110,000/burstable up to 160,000 | 6/10 |
ecs.g7.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 16/burstable up to 32 | 6,000,000 | Yes | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 160,000/none | 10/none |
ecs.g7.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | Yes | 1,200,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 360,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.g7.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 64/none | 24,000,000 | Yes | 2,400,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 600,000/none | 32/none |
g6, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Provides high network and storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
NoteNetwork performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Supported instance type changes: Supports changes to c6 or r6 instance types.
g6 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g6.large | 2 | 8 | 1/burstable up to 3 | 300,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.g6.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5/burstable up to 5 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.g6.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5/burstable up to 8 | 800,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.g6.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 4/burstable up to 10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.g6.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5/burstable up to 10 | 1,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.g6.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 7.5/burstable up to 10 | 1,500,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 50,000 | 4 |
ecs.g6.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10/none | 2,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.g6.13xlarge | 52 | 192 | 12.5/none | 3,000,000 | 900,000 | 32 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 100,000 | 8 |
ecs.g6.26xlarge | 104 | 384 | 25/none | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
g6a, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Video encoding and decoding
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted
Websites and application servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Game servers
Scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested
Other general-purpose enterprise-level applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYC™ ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high network and storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g6a instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g6a.large | 2 | 8 | 1/10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 12,500 | 1 |
ecs.g6a.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5/10 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.g6a.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5/10 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 30,000 | 2 |
ecs.g6a.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5/10 | 2,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 60,000 | 3.1 |
ecs.g6a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 8/10 | 3,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 75,000 | 4.1 |
ecs.g6a.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 150,000 | 8.2 |
ecs.g6a.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 1 | 300,000 | 16.4 |
g6e, performance-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high network and storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
NoteNetwork performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g6e instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g6e.large | 2 | 8 | 1.2/burstable up to 10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 20,000 | 1 |
ecs.g6e.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 2/burstable up to 10 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 40,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.g6e.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 3/burstable up to 10 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 50,000 | 2 |
ecs.g6e.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 6/burstable up to 10 | 3,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 80,000 | 3 |
ecs.g6e.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10/none | 6,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 150,000 | 5 |
ecs.g6e.13xlarge | 52 | 192 | 16/none | 9,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 240,000 | 8 |
ecs.g6e.26xlarge | 104 | 384 | 32/none | 24,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 1 | 480,000 | 16 |
The results for network capabilities are the maximum values obtained from single-item tests. For example, when network bandwidth is tested, no stress tests are performed on the packet forwarding rate or other network metrics.
If you want to use the ecs.g6e.26xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
g5, general-purpose instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the g6, g6e, or g7 instance family instead.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
NoteNetwork performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g5 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.g5.large | 2 | 8 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.g5.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.g5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5 | 800,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.g5.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 4 | 900,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.g5.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.g5.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 7.5 | 1,500,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.g5.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10 | 2,000,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.g5.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 20 | 4,000,000 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
sn2ne, network-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the g6, g6e, or g7 instance family instead.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
sn2ne instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.sn2ne.large | 2 | 8 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 2.5 | 1,300,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 3 | 1,600,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 4.5 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 6 | 2,500,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
ecs.sn2ne.14xlarge | 56 | 224 | 10 | 4,500,000 | 14 | 8 | 20 | 1 |
c8a, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios: big data applications, web applications, AI training and inference, and audio and video transcoding applications.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.7 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
The c8a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c8a.large, ecs.c8a.xlarge, ecs.c8a.2xlarge, ecs.c8a.4xlarge, ecs.c8a.8xlarge, ecs.c8a.12xlarge, ecs.c8a.16xlarge, ecs.c8a.24xlarge, ecs.c8a.32xlarge, and ecs.c8a.48xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c8i, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios: machine learning inference applications, data analytics, batch computing, video encoding, frontend servers for games, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, and web frontend servers.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids processors that deliver a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteWhen you purchase an instance of this instance family, the system randomly allocates one type of the preceding processors to the instance. You cannot select a processor type for the instance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
Implements trusted boot based on Trusted Cryptography Module (TCM) or TPM chips to provide ultra-high security capabilities. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying server to the ECS instance are measured and verified.
Supports Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME) to encrypt memory.
The c8i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c8i.large, ecs.c8i.xlarge, ecs.c8i.2xlarge, ecs.c8i.3xlarge, ecs.c8i.4xlarge, ecs.c8i.6xlarge, ecs.c8i.8xlarge, ecs.c8i.12xlarge, ecs.c8i.16xlarge, ecs.c8i.24xlarge, ecs.c8i.48xlarge, and ecs.ebmc8i.48xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c8ae, performance-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide consistent computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios:
AI scenarios, such as deep learning and training, and AI inference
High-performance scientific computing scenarios, such as high-performance computing (HPC)
Large and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Servers for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Other general-purpose enterprise-level applications that have high performance requirements
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 3.4 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.75 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
The c8ae instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c8ae.large, ecs.c8ae.xlarge, ecs.c8ae.2xlarge, ecs.c8ae.4xlarge, ecs.c8ae.8xlarge, ecs.c8ae.16xlarge, and ecs.c8ae.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the metrics of instance types. For more information, see Metrics of instance types.
c7a, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Video encoding and decoding
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested
Data analytics and batch computing
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC™ MILAN processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c7a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c7a.large, ecs.c7a.xlarge, ecs.c7a.2xlarge, ecs.c7a.4xlarge, ecs.c7a.8xlarge, ecs.c7a-nps1.8xlarge, ecs.c7a.16xlarge, ecs.c7a-nps1.16xlarge, and ecs.c7a.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c7, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Frontend servers for MMO games
Web frontend servers
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Scenarios that require secure and trusted computing
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Blockchain scenarios
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
Supports the Enclave feature and provides virtualization-based confidential computing environments. For more information, see Build a confidential computing environment by using Enclave.
The c7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c7.large, ecs.c7.xlarge, ecs.c7.2xlarge, ecs.c7.3xlarge, ecs.c7.4xlarge, ecs.c7.6xlarge, ecs.c7.8xlarge, ecs.c7.16xlarge, and ecs.c7.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c6, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Supported instance type changes: Supports changes to g6 or r6 instance types.
The c6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c6.large, ecs.c6.xlarge, ecs.c6.2xlarge, ecs.c6.3xlarge, ecs.c6.4xlarge, ecs.c6.6xlarge, ecs.c6.8xlarge, ecs.c6.13xlarge, and ecs.c6.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c6a, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios: video encoding and decoding, scenarios in which large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, web frontend servers, frontend servers for MMO games, and scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYC™ ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c6a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c6a.large, ecs.c6a.xlarge, ecs.c6a.2xlarge, ecs.c6a.4xlarge, ecs.c6a.8xlarge, ecs.c6a.16xlarge, and ecs.c6a.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c6e, performance-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
NoteNetwork performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c6e instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c6e.large, ecs.c6e.xlarge, ecs.c6e.2xlarge, ecs.c6e.4xlarge, ecs.c6e.8xlarge, ecs.c6e.13xlarge, and ecs.c6e.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c5, compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the c6, c6e, or c7 instance family.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c5 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c5.large, ecs.c5.xlarge, ecs.c5.2xlarge, ecs.c5.3xlarge, ecs.c5.4xlarge, ecs.c5.6xlarge, ecs.c5.8xlarge, and ecs.c5.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
ic5, compute-intensive instance family
Supported scenarios:
Web frontend servers
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Frontend servers for MMO games
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:1.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 2.7 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The ic5 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.ic5.large, ecs.ic5.xlarge, ecs.ic5.2xlarge, ecs.ic5.3xlarge, ecs.ic5.4xlarge, ecs.ic5.6xlarge, ecs.ic5.8xlarge, and ecs.ic5.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
sn1ne, network-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the c6, c6e, or c7 instance family.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The sn1ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.sn1ne.large, ecs.sn1ne.xlarge, ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge, ecs.sn1ne.3xlarge, ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge, ecs.sn1ne.6xlarge, and ecs.sn1ne.8xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
r8a, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios:
Memory-intensive, general-purpose, enterprise-level applications such as Java
Various in-memory database applications such as Redis and Memcache
Big data applications such as Kafka and Elasticsearch
Audio and video transcoding applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.7 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see the Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types section of the "Compatibility between AMD instance types and operating systems" topic.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports Elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.
The r8a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8a.large, ecs.r8a.xlarge, ecs.r8a.2xlarge, ecs.r8a.4xlarge, ecs.r8a.8xlarge, ecs.r8a.12xlarge, ecs.r8a.16xlarge, ecs.r8a.24xlarge, ecs.r8a.32xlarge, and ecs.r8a.48xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
For ecs.r8a.large and ecs.r8a.xlarge instances, you must enable the Jumbo Frames feature before the instances can burst their network bandwidths to 12.5 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
To use the ecs.r8a.48xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
r8i, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios:
Data analytics and mining
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Distributed in-memory cache, such as Redis
Websites and application servers
Servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids processors that deliver a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.
Supports Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME) to encrypt memory.
The r8i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8i.large, ecs.r8i.xlarge, ecs.r8i.2xlarge, ecs.r8i.3xlarge, ecs.r8i.4xlarge, ecs.r8i.6xlarge, ecs.r8i.8xlarge, ecs.r8i.12xlarge, ecs.r8i.16xlarge, and ecs.r8i.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r8ae, enhanced-performance memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Supported scenarios:
AI scenarios, such as deep learning and training, and AI inference
High-performance scientific computing scenarios such as high-performance computing (HPC)
Large and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Servers of MMO games
Other general-purpose enterprise-level applications that have high performance requirements
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 3.4 GHz AMD EPYCTM Genoa processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.75 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see the Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types section of the "Compatibility between AMD instance types and operating systems" topic.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.
The r8ae instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8ae.large, ecs.r8ae.xlarge, ecs.r8ae.2xlarge, ecs.r8ae.4xlarge, and ecs.r8ae.8xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r7a, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see the Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types section of the "Compatibility between AMD instance types and operating systems" topic.
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Blockchain applications
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r7a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7a.large, ecs.r7a.xlarge, ecs.r7a.2xlarge, ecs.r7a.4xlarge, ecs.r7a.8xlarge, ecs.r7a-nps1.8xlarge, ecs.r7a.16xlarge, ecs.r7a-nps1.16xlarge, and ecs.r7a.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r7, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Scenarios that require secure and trusted computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security:
Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.
Supports the Enclave feature and provides a virtualization-based confidential computing environment. For more information, see Build a confidential computing environment by using Enclave.
The r7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7.large, ecs.r7.xlarge, ecs.r7.2xlarge, ecs.r7.3xlarge, ecs.r7.4xlarge, ecs.r7.6xlarge, ecs.r7.8xlarge, ecs.r7.16xlarge, and ecs.r7.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r6, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance type change: Supports changes to g6 or c6 instance types.
The r6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6.large, ecs.r6.xlarge, ecs.r6.2xlarge, ecs.r6.3xlarge, ecs.r6.4xlarge, ecs.r6.6xlarge, ecs.r6.8xlarge, ecs.r6.13xlarge, and ecs.r6.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r6a, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios: scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, video encoding and decoding, in-memory databases, enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters, and scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYCTM ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see the Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types section of the "Compatibility between AMD instance types and operating systems" topic.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r6a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6a.large, ecs.r6a.xlarge, ecs.r6a.2xlarge, ecs.r6a.4xlarge, ecs.r6a.8xlarge, and ecs.r6a.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r6e, enhanced-performance memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
NoteNetwork performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.
The r6e instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6e.large, ecs.r6e.xlarge, ecs.r6e.2xlarge, ecs.r6e.4xlarge, ecs.r6e.8xlarge, ecs.r6e.13xlarge, and ecs.r6e.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
r5, memory-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the r6, r6e, or r7 instance family instead.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
NoteThe maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r5 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r5.large, ecs.r5.xlarge, ecs.r5.2xlarge, ecs.r5.3xlarge, ecs.r5.4xlarge, ecs.r5.6xlarge, ecs.r5.8xlarge, and ecs.r5.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
se1ne, network-enhanced memory-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteInstances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the r6, r6e, or r7 instance family instead.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The se1ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.se1ne.large, ecs.se1ne.xlarge, ecs.se1ne.2xlarge, ecs.se1ne.3xlarge, ecs.se1ne.4xlarge, ecs.se1ne.6xlarge, ecs.se1ne.8xlarge, and ecs.se1ne.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
se1, memory-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The se1 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.se1.large, ecs.se1.xlarge, ecs.se1.2xlarge, ecs.se1.4xlarge, ecs.se1.8xlarge, and ecs.se1.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
u1, universal instance family
Features:
Compute:
Offers the following CPU-to-memory ratios: 1:2, 1:4, and 1:8.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Platinum Scalable processors.
Noteu1 instances are randomly deployed to different server platforms during instance creation and may be migrated across server platforms during the lifecycle of the instances. u1 instances use technological capabilities to promote cross-platform compatibility. However, business performance significantly varies between server platforms. If your business requires performance consistency, we recommend that you use g7, c7, or r7 instances.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports enhanced SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD Entry disks, and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only virtual private clouds (VPCs).
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Supported scenarios:
Small and medium-sized enterprise-level applications
Websites and application servers
Data analytics and computing
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.u1-c1m1.large | 2 | 2 | 1 | 300,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.large | 2 | 4 | 1 | 300,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.large | 2 | 8 | 1 | 300,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.large | 2 | 16 | 1 | 300,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.u1-c1m1.xlarge | 4 | 4 | 1.5 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 1.5 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.xlarge | 4 | 32 | 1.5 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m1.2xlarge | 8 | 8 | 2.5 | 800,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 2.5 | 800,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5 | 800,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.2xlarge | 8 | 64 | 2.5 | 800,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.u1-c1m1.3xlarge | 12 | 12 | 4 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 4 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 4 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.3xlarge | 12 | 96 | 4 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.u1-c1m1.4xlarge | 16 | 16 | 5 | 1,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 5 | 1,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5 | 1,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.4xlarge | 16 | 128 | 5 | 1,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.u1-c1m1.8xlarge | 32 | 32 | 10 | 2,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.u1-c1m2.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 10 | 2,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.u1-c1m4.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10 | 2,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.u1-c1m8.8xlarge | 32 | 256 | 10 | 2,000,000 | Up to 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For information about the specifications of the instance types, see the Instance type specifications section of the "Overview of instance families" topic.
Exceptions may occur when you deploy Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) applications on u1 instances. To resolve the issue, replace Userspace I/O (UIO) drivers with Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) drivers. For more information, see Replace UIO drivers with VFIO drivers.
For frequently asked questions about universal instances, see the sections that are related to u1 instances in Instance FAQ.
d3s, storage-intensive big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with 12-TB, large-capacity, high-throughput local SATA HDDs and can provide a maximum network bandwidth of 64 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Big data computing and storage business scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch and Kafka are used
This instance family supports online replacement and hot swapping of damaged disks to prevent instance shutdown.
If a local disk fails, you receive a system event. You can handle the system event by initiating the process of repairing the damaged disk. For more information, see O&M scenarios and system events for instances equipped with local disks.
ImportantAfter you initiate the process of repairing the damaged disk, data stored on the damaged disk cannot be restored.
Compute:
Uses 2.7 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d3s instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d3s.2xlarge, ecs.d3s.4xlarge, ecs.d3s.8xlarge, ecs.d3s.12xlarge, and ecs.d3s.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
d3c, compute-intensive big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with high-capacity and high-throughput local disks and can provide a maximum bandwidth of 40 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Big data computing and storage business scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Scenarios in which EMR JindoFS and Object Storage Service (OSS) are used in combination to separately store hot and cold data and decouple storage from computing
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch and Kafka are used
This instance family supports online replacement and hot swapping of damaged disks to prevent instance shutdown.
If a local disk fails, you receive a system event. You can handle the system event by initiating the process of repairing the damaged disk. For more information, see O&M scenarios and system events for instances equipped with local disks.
ImportantAfter you initiate the process of repairing the damaged disk, data stored on the damaged disk cannot be restored.
Compute:
Uses third-generation 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d3c instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d3c.3xlarge, ecs.d3c.7xlarge, and ecs.d3c.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
This instance family supports only Linux images. When you create an instance of this instance family, select a Linux image.
d2c, compute-intensive big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with high-capacity and high-throughput local SATA HDDs and can provide a maximum bandwidth of 35 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Big data computing and storage business scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Scenarios in which EMR JindoFS and OSS are used in combination to separately store hot and cold data and decouple storage from computing
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch and Kafka are used
This instance family supports online replacement and hot swapping of damaged disks to prevent instance shutdown.
If a local disk fails, you receive a system event. You can handle the system event by initiating the process of repairing the damaged disk. For more information, see O&M scenarios and system events for instances equipped with local disks.
ImportantAfter you initiate the process of repairing the damaged disk, data stored on the damaged disk cannot be restored.
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports enhanced SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d2c instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d2c.6xlarge, ecs.d2c.12xlarge, and ecs.d2c.24xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
d2s, storage-intensive big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with high-capacity and high-throughput local SATA HDDs and can provide a maximum bandwidth of 35 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Big data computing and storage business scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch and Kafka are used
This instance family supports online replacement and hot swapping of damaged disks to prevent instance shutdown.
If a local disk fails, you receive a system event. You can handle the system event by initiating the process of repairing the damaged disk. For more information, see O&M scenarios and system events for instances equipped with local disks.
ImportantAfter you initiate the process of repairing the damaged disk, data stored on the damaged disk cannot be restored.
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d2s instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d2s.5xlarge, ecs.d2s.10xlarge, and ecs.d2s.20xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
d1ne, network-enhanced big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with high-capacity and high-throughput local SATA HDDs and can provide a maximum bandwidth of 35 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch are used
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for big data scenarios.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d1ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d1ne.2xlarge, ecs.d1ne.4xlarge, ecs.d1ne.6xlarge, ecs.d1ne-c8d3.8xlarge, ecs.d1ne.8xlarge, ecs.d1ne-c14d3.14xlarge, and ecs.d1ne.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
d1, big data instance family
Features:
This instance family is equipped with high-capacity and high-throughput local SATA HDDs and can provide a maximum bandwidth of 17 Gbit/s between instances.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios in which services such as Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase are used
Machine learning scenarios such as Spark in-memory computing and MLlib
Scenarios in which customers in industries such as Internet and finance need to compute, store, and analyze big data
Search and log data processing scenarios in which solutions such as Elasticsearch are used
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for big data scenarios.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The d1 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.d1.2xlarge, ecs.d1.3xlarge, ecs.d1.4xlarge, ecs.d1.6xlarge, ecs.d1-c8d3.8xlarge, ecs.d1.8xlarge, ecs.d1-c14d3.14xlarge, and ecs.d1.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i4, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Uses 2.7 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Compatibility between the i4 instance types and operating systems.
The i4 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i4.large, ecs.i4.xlarge, ecs.i4.2xlarge, ecs.i4.4xlarge, ecs.i4.8xlarge, ecs.i4.16xlarge, and ecs.i4.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i4g, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, E-MapReduce big data scenarios such as tiering of hot and cold data, storage and computing separation, and data lakes, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.7 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
The i4g instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i4g.4xlarge, ecs.i4g.8xlarge, ecs.i4g.16xlarge, and ecs.i4g.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
This instance family supports only Linux images. When you create an instance of this instance family, you must select a Linux image.
i4r, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8, which is designed for high-performance databases. This instance family is the most cost-effective instance family that is suitable for scenarios such as hot data tiering and data lakes.
Uses 2.7 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
The i4r instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i4r.4xlarge, ecs.i4r.8xlarge, ecs.i4r.16xlarge, and ecs.i4r.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i4p, performance-enhanced instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family uses the Intel® Second-generation Optane persistent memory (BPS) to provide ultra-high-performance local disks. For information about how to initialize local disks, see the Configure persistent memory as a local disk section of the "Configure the usage mode of persistent memory" topic.
Supported scenarios:
Gene sequencing applications. For more information, see Case description.
On-disk key-value (KV) databases, such as RocksDB and ClickHouse.
OLTP and high-performance relational databases for write-ahead log (WAL) optimization.
NoSQL databases, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase.
Search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Other I/O-intensive applications that frequently write data to disks, such as message middleware and containers.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i4p instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i4p.2xlarge, ecs.i4p.4xlarge, ecs.i4p.6xlarge, ecs.i4p.8xlarge, ecs.i4p.16xlarge, and ecs.i4p.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i3g, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i3g instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i3g.2xlarge, ecs.i3g.4xlarge, ecs.i3g.8xlarge, ecs.i3g.13xlarge, and ecs.i3g.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
This instance family supports only Linux images. When you create an instance of this instance family, you must select a Linux image.
i3, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency, and allows damaged disks to be isolated online.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i3 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i3.xlarge, ecs.i3.2xlarge, ecs.i3.4xlarge, ecs.i3.8xlarge, ecs.i3.13xlarge, and ecs.i3.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
This instance family supports only Linux images. When you create an instance of this instance family, you must select a Linux image.
i2, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i2 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i2.xlarge, ecs.i2.2xlarge, ecs.i2.4xlarge, ecs.i2.8xlarge, and ecs.i2.13xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i2g, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i2g instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i2g.2xlarge, ecs.i2g.4xlarge, ecs.i2g.8xlarge, and ecs.i2g.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i2ne, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Provides a network bandwidth of up to 20 Gbit/s.
The i2ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i2ne.xlarge, ecs.i2ne.2xlarge, ecs.i2ne.4xlarge, ecs.i2ne.8xlarge, ecs.i2ne.16xlarge, and ecs.i2ne.20xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i2gne, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, MongoDB, and HBase, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Provides a network bandwidth of up to 20 Gbit/s.
The i2gne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i2gne.2xlarge, ecs.i2gne.4xlarge, ecs.i2gne.8xlarge, and ecs.i2gne.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
i1, instance family with local SSDs
Introduction: This instance family is equipped with high-performance local NVMe SSDs that deliver high IOPS, high I/O throughput, and low latency.
Supported scenarios: OLTP and high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB, and search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, which is designed for high-performance databases.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The i1 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.i1.xlarge, ecs.i1.2xlarge, ecs.i1.3xlarge, ecs.i1.4xlarge, ecs.i1-c5d1.4xlarge, ecs.i1.6xlarge, ecs.i1.8xlarge, ecs.i1-c10d1.8xlarge, and ecs.i1.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfc7, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios in which large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting and telecom data forwarding
High-performance frontend server clusters
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfc7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfc7.large, ecs.hfc7.xlarge, ecs.hfc7.2xlarge, ecs.hfc7.3xlarge, ecs.hfc7.4xlarge, ecs.hfc7.6xlarge, ecs.hfc7.8xlarge, ecs.hfc7.12xlarge, and ecs.hfc7.24xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfc6, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers for MMO games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatAllows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfc6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfc6.large, ecs.hfc6.xlarge, ecs.hfc6.2xlarge, ecs.hfc6.3xlarge, ecs.hfc6.4xlarge, ecs.hfc6.6xlarge, ecs.hfc6.8xlarge, ecs.hfc6.10xlarge, ecs.hfc6.16xlarge, and ecs.hfc6.20xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfg7, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
High-performance scientific computing
Video encoding applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfg7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfg7.large, ecs.hfg7.xlarge, ecs.hfg7.2xlarge, ecs.hfg7.3xlarge, ecs.hfg7.4xlarge, ecs.hfg7.6xlarge, ecs.hfg7.8xlarge, ecs.hfg7.12xlarge, and ecs.hfg7.24xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfg6, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatAllows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfg6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfg6.large, ecs.hfg6.xlarge, ecs.hfg6.2xlarge, ecs.hfg6.3xlarge, ecs.hfg6.4xlarge, ecs.hfg6.6xlarge, ecs.hfg6.8xlarge, ecs.hfg6.10xlarge, ecs.hfg6.16xlarge, and ecs.hfg6.20xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfr7, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfr7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfr7.large, ecs.hfr7.xlarge, ecs.hfr7.2xlarge, ecs.hfr7.3xlarge, ecs.hfr7.4xlarge, ecs.hfr7.6xlarge, ecs.hfr7.8xlarge, ecs.hfr7.12xlarge, and ecs.hfr7.24xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfr6, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatAllows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.
NoteBy default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteFor information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The hfr6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.hfr6.large, ecs.hfr6.xlarge, ecs.hfr6.2xlarge, ecs.hfr6.3xlarge, ecs.hfr6.4xlarge, ecs.hfr6.6xlarge, ecs.hfr6.8xlarge, ecs.hfr6.10xlarge, ecs.hfr6.16xlarge, and ecs.hfr6.20xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
hfc5, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Supported scenarios: Scenarios such as high-performance frontend servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, MMO games, and video encoding.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors.
Provides consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.hfc5.large | 2 | 4 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.hfc5.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 2 | 1,000,000 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 2.5 | 1,300,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 3 | 1,600,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfc5.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 4.5 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfc5.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 6 | 2,500,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
hfg5, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Supported scenarios: Scenarios such as high-performance frontend servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, MMO games, and video encoding.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4 (excluding the instance type with 56 vCPUs).
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors.
Provides consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.hfg5.large | 2 | 8 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.hfg5.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2 | 1,000,000 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 2.5 | 1,300,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 3 | 1,600,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 4.5 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 6 | 2,500,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.14xlarge | 56 | 160 | 10 | 4,000,000 | 14 | 8 | 20 |
g7se, storage-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and Intel Ice Lake processors to improve storage I/O performance.
Supported scenarios: I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized online transaction processing (OLTP) core databases, large and medium-sized NoSQL databases, search and real-time log analytics, and traditional large enterprise-level commercial software such as SAP.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.9 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Allows up to 64 data disks to be attached per instance. You can attach up to 16 data disks to an instance when you create the instance. If the instance requires more data disks, attach more data disks after the instance is created. For more information, see Attach a data disk.
Delivers a sequential read/write throughput of up to 64 Gbit/s and IOPS of up to 1,000,000 per instance.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The g7se instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g7se.large, ecs.g7se.xlarge, ecs.g7se.2xlarge, ecs.g7se.3xlarge, ecs.g7se.4xlarge, ecs.g7se.6xlarge, ecs.g7se.8xlarge, and ecs.g7se.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
c7se, storage-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and Intel Ice Lake processors to improve storage I/O performance.
Supported scenarios: I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized OLTP core databases, large and medium-sized NoSQL databases, search and real-time log analytics, and traditional large enterprise-level commercial software such as SAP.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.9 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Allows up to 64 data disks to be attached per instance. You can attach up to 16 data disks to an instance when you create the instance. If the instance requires more data disks, attach more data disks after the instance is created. For more information, see Attach a data disk.
Delivers a sequential read/write throughput of up to 64 Gbit/s and IOPS of up to 1,000,000 per instance.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c7se instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c7se.large, ecs.c7se.xlarge, ecs.c7se.2xlarge, ecs.c7se.3xlarge, ecs.c7se.4xlarge, ecs.c7se.6xlarge, ecs.c7se.8xlarge, and ecs.c7se.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
r7se, storage-enhanced memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and Intel Ice Lake processors to improve storage I/O performance.
Supported scenarios:
I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized OLTP core databases
Large and medium-sized NoSQL databases
Search and real-time log analytics
Traditional large enterprise-level commercial software such as SAP
High-density deployment of containers
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.9 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Allows up to 64 data disks to be attached per instance. You can attach up to 16 data disks to an instance when you create the instance. If the instance requires more data disks, attach more data disks after the instance is created. For more information, see Attach a data disk.
Delivers a sequential read/write throughput of up to 64 Gbit/s and IOPS of up to 1,000,000 per instance.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r7se instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7se.large, ecs.r7se.xlarge, ecs.r7se.2xlarge, ecs.r7se.3xlarge, ecs.r7se.4xlarge, ecs.r7se.6xlarge, ecs.r7se.8xlarge, and ecs.r7se.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
g7nex, network-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Network-intensive scenarios such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) or Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), mobile Internet, on-screen video comments, and telecom data forwarding
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Significantly improves the network throughput and packet forwarding rate per instance. A single instance can deliver a packet forwarding rate of up to 30,000,000 pps.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The g7nex instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g7nex.large, ecs.g7nex.xlarge, ecs.g7nex.2xlarge, ecs.g7nex.4xlarge, ecs.g7nex.8xlarge, ecs.g7nex.16xlarge, and ecs.g7nex.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Each ecs.g7nex.32xlarge instance must have at least two elastic network interfaces (ENIs) that are assigned different network card indexes before the instance can burst its network bandwidth to 160 Gbit/s. If all ENIs on the instance are assigned the same network card index, the instance can burst its network bandwidth only to 100 Gbit/s. For more information, see AttachNetworkInterface.
c7nex, network-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Network-intensive scenarios such as NFV or SD-WAN, mobile Internet, on-screen video comments, and telecom data forwarding
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Significantly improves the network throughput and packet forwarding rate per instance. A single instance can deliver a packet forwarding rate of up to 30,000,000 pps.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.
The c7nex instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c7nex.large, ecs.c7nex.xlarge, ecs.c7nex.2xlarge, ecs.c7nex.4xlarge, ecs.c7nex.8xlarge, ecs.c7nex.16xlarge, and ecs.c7nex.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Each ecs.c7nex.32xlarge instance must have at least two ENIs that are assigned different network card indexes before the instance can burst its network bandwidth to 160 Gbit/s. If all ENIs on the instance are assigned the same network card index, the instance can burst its network bandwidth only to 100 Gbit/s. For more information, see AttachNetworkInterface.
g7ne, network-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family significantly improves the network throughput and packet forwarding rate per instance. A single instance can deliver a packet forwarding rate of up to 24,000,000 pps.
Supported scenarios:
Network-intensive scenarios such as NFV or SD-WAN, mobile Internet, on-screen video comments, and telecom data forwarding
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Big data analytics and machine learning
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8369HB (Cooper Lake) or Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8369HC (Cooper Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and a clock speed of at least 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The g7ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g7ne.large, ecs.g7ne.xlarge, ecs.g7ne.2xlarge, ecs.g7ne.4xlarge, ecs.g7ne.8xlarge, ecs.g7ne.12xlarge, and ecs.g7ne.24xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
g5ne, network-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family significantly improves the network throughput and packet forwarding rate per instance. A single instance can deliver a packet forwarding rate of up to 10,000,000 pps.
Supported scenarios:
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) applications
Network-intensive scenarios such as NFV or SD-WAN, mobile Internet, on-screen video comments, and telecom data forwarding
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Big data analytics and machine learning
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
NoteTo deploy DPDK applications, we recommend that you select instance types in the g5ne instance family.
The g5ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g5ne.large, ecs.g5ne.xlarge, ecs.g5ne.2xlarge, ecs.g5ne.4xlarge, ecs.g5ne.8xlarge, ecs.g5ne.16xlarge, and ecs.g5ne.18xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
g7t, security-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Introduction:
This instance family supports up to 256 GiB of encrypted memory and confidential computing based on Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) to protect the confidentiality and integrity of essential code and data from malware attacks.
This instance family supports Virtual SGX (vSGX) and allows you to select instance types based on your business requirements.
ImportantIf you use keys (such as SGX sealing keys) that are bound to hardware to encrypt the data of an instance within an Intel SGX enclave, the encrypted data cannot be decrypted after the host of the instance is changed. We recommend that you perform data redundancy and backup at the application layer to ensure application reliability.
This instance family implements trusted boot based on Trusted Cryptography Module (TCM) or Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying server to the guest operating system are measured and verified.
This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios that involve sensitive information such as personal identity information, healthcare information, financial information, and intellectual property data
Scenarios where confidential data is shared among multiple parties
Blockchain scenarios
Confidential machine learning
Scenarios that require high security and enhanced trust, such as services for financial organizations, public service sectors, and enterprises
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4. About 50% of memory is encrypted.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The g7t instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g7t.large, ecs.g7t.xlarge, ecs.g7t.2xlarge, ecs.g7t.3xlarge, ecs.g7t.4xlarge, ecs.g7t.6xlarge, ecs.g7t.8xlarge, ecs.g7t.16xlarge, and ecs.g7t.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Intel Ice Lake supports only remote attestation based on Intel Software Guard Extensions Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel SGX DCAP) and does not support remote attestation based on Intel Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID). You must adapt applications before you can use the remote attestation feature. For more information about remote attestation, see Strengthen Enclave Trust with Attestation.
Intel SGX depends on host hardware. This instance family does not support hot migration.
Operations, such as changing instance types and enabling the economical mode, may cause the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
By default, failover is disabled. You can enable failover. For more information, see Modify instance maintenance attributes. Failover causes the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
When you create a security-enhanced instance, you must select a dedicated image to use the security features. For more information, see Create a trusted instance.
To use the ecs.g7t.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
c7t, security-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction:
This instance family supports up to 128 GiB of encrypted memory and confidential computing based on Intel® SGX to protect the confidentiality and integrity of essential code and data from malware attacks.
This instance family supports vSGX and allows you to select instance types based on your business requirements.
ImportantIf you use keys (such as SGX sealing keys) that are bound to hardware to encrypt the data of an instance within an Intel SGX enclave, the encrypted data cannot be decrypted after the host of the instance is changed. We recommend that you perform data redundancy and backup at the application layer to ensure application reliability.
This instance family implements trusted boot based on TCM or TPM chips. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying server to the guest operating system are measured and verified.
This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios that involve sensitive information such as personal identity information, healthcare information, financial information, and intellectual property data
Scenarios where confidential data is shared among multiple parties
Blockchain scenarios
Confidential machine learning
Scenarios that require high security and enhanced trust, such as services for financial organizations, public service sectors, and enterprises
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2. About 50% of memory is encrypted.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c7t instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c7t.large, ecs.c7t.xlarge, ecs.c7t.2xlarge, ecs.c7t.3xlarge, ecs.c7t.4xlarge, ecs.c7t.6xlarge, ecs.c7t.8xlarge, ecs.c7t.16xlarge, and ecs.c7t.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Intel Ice Lake supports only remote attestation based on Intel Software Guard Extensions Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel SGX DCAP) and does not support remote attestation based on Intel Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID). You must adapt applications before you can use the remote attestation feature. For more information about remote attestation, see Strengthen Enclave Trust with Attestation.
Intel SGX depends on host hardware. This instance family does not support hot migration.
Operations, such as changing instance types and enabling the economical mode, may cause the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
By default, failover is disabled. You can enable failover. For more information, see Modify instance maintenance attributes. Failover causes the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
When you create a security-enhanced instance, you must select a dedicated image to use the security features. For more information, see Create a trusted instance.
To use the ecs.c7t.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
r7t, security-enhanced memory-optimized instance family
Introduction:
This instance family supports up to 512 GiB of encrypted memory and confidential computing based on Intel® SGX to protect the confidentiality and integrity of essential code and data from malware attacks.
This instance family supports vSGX and allows you to select instance types that meet your business requirements.
ImportantIf you use keys (such as SGX sealing keys) that are bound to hardware to encrypt the data of an instance within an Intel SGX enclave, the encrypted data cannot be decrypted after the host of the instance is changed. We recommend that you perform data redundancy and backup at the application layer to ensure application reliability.
This instance family implements trusted boot based on TCM or TPM chips. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying server to the guest operating system are measured and verified.
This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Supported scenarios:
Encrypted computing applications for databases
Scenarios that involve sensitive information such as personal identity information, healthcare information, financial information, and intellectual property data
Scenarios where confidential data is shared among multiple parties
Blockchain scenarios
Confidential machine learning
Scenarios that require high security and enhanced trust, such as services for financial organizations, public service sectors, and enterprises
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8. About 50% of memory is encrypted.
Uses the third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r7t instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7t.large, ecs.r7t.xlarge, ecs.r7t.2xlarge, ecs.r7t.3xlarge, ecs.r7t.4xlarge, ecs.r7t.6xlarge, ecs.r7t.8xlarge, ecs.r7t.16xlarge, and ecs.r7t.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Intel Ice Lake supports only remote attestation based on Intel Software Guard Extensions Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel SGX DCAP) and does not support remote attestation based on Intel Enhanced Privacy ID (EPID). You must adapt applications before you can use the remote attestation feature. For more information about remote attestation, see Strengthen Enclave Trust with Attestation.
Intel SGX depends on host hardware. This instance family does not support hot migration.
Operations, such as changing instance types and enabling the economical mode, may cause the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
By default, failover is disabled. You can enable failover. For more information, see Modify instance maintenance attributes. Failover causes the host of an instance to change. For instances of this instance family, the host change may cause data decryption to fail. Proceed with caution.
When you create a security-enhanced instance, you must select a dedicated image to use the security features. For more information, see Create a trusted instance.
To use the ecs.r7t.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
g6t, security-enhanced general-purpose instance family
Features:
Introduction:
This instance family implements trusted boot based on TCM or TPM chips. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying server to the guest operating system are measured and verified.
This instance family supports the vTPM feature and delivers a full set of trusted capabilities at the IaaS layer based on integrity monitoring.
This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios that require high security and enhanced trust, such as services for financial organizations, public service sectors, and enterprises
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The g6t instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.g6t.large, ecs.g6t.xlarge, ecs.g6t.2xlarge, ecs.g6t.4xlarge, ecs.g6t.8xlarge, ecs.g6t.13xlarge, and ecs.g6t.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
The results for network capabilities are the maximum values obtained from single-item tests. For example, when network bandwidth is tested, no stress tests are performed on the packet forwarding rate or other network metrics.
c6t, security-enhanced compute-optimized instance family
Introduction:
This instance family implements trusted boots based on TPM chips. During a trusted boot, all modules in the boot chain from the underlying hardware to the guest operating system are measured and verified.
This instance family supports integrity monitoring and provides a full set of trusted capabilities at the IaaS layer.
This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios that require high security and enhanced trust, such as services for financial organizations, public service sectors, and enterprises
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c6t instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c6t.large, ecs.c6t.xlarge, ecs.c6t.2xlarge, ecs.c6t.4xlarge, ecs.c6t.8xlarge, ecs.c6t.13xlarge, and ecs.c6t.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
The results for network capabilities are the maximum values obtained from single-item tests. For example, when network bandwidth is tested, no stress tests are performed on the packet forwarding rate or other network metrics.
re6p, persistent memory-optimized instance family
For answers to commonly asked questions about persistent memory-optimized instances, see Instance FAQ.
Features:
Introduction:
This instance family uses Intel® OptaneTM persistent memory.
ImportantThe reliability of data stored in persistent memory varies based on the reliability of persistent memory devices and the physical servers to which these devices are attached. Risks of single points of failure exist. To ensure the reliability of application data, we recommend that you implement data redundancy at the application layer and use cloud disks for long-term data storage.
This instance family allows persistent memory to be used as memory or as local SSDs on instances of some instance types.
NoteFor more information, see Configure the usage mode of persistent memory.
This instance family provides the ecs.re6p-redis.<nx>large instance types for Redis applications.
Noteecs.re6p-redis.<nx>large instance types are exclusively provided for Redis applications. Persistent memory on instances of these instance types is used as memory by default and cannot be re-configured as local SSDs. For information about how to deploy a Redis application, see Deploy Redis on persistent memory-optimized instances.
Supported scenarios:
Redis and other NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB
Structured databases such as MySQL
I/O-intensive applications such as e-commerce, online games, and media applications
Search scenarios that use solutions such as Elasticsearch
Live video streaming, instant messaging, and room-based online games that require persistent connections
High-performance relational databases and OLTP systems
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
The re6p instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.re6p.large, ecs.re6p.xlarge, ecs.re6p.2xlarge, ecs.re6p.13xlarge, ecs.re6p.26xlarge, ecs.re6p-redis.large, ecs.re6p-redis.xlarge, ecs.re6p-redis.2xlarge, and ecs.re6p-redis.13xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
re6, high-memory instance family
Features:
Introduction: This instance family is optimized for high-performance databases, in-memory databases, and enterprise-level memory-intensive applications.
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases such as SAP HANA
Memory-intensive applications
Big data processing engines such as Apache Spark and Presto
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:15 and up to 3 TiB of memory.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
The re6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.re6.4xlarge, ecs.re6.8xlarge, ecs.re6.13xlarge, ecs.re6.16xlarge, ecs.re6.26xlarge, ecs.re6.32xlarge, and ecs.re6.52xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
To use the ecs.re6.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
re4, high-memory instance family
Introduction:
This instance family is optimized for high-performance databases, in-memory databases, and enterprise-level memory-intensive applications.
The ecs.re4.20xlarge and ecs.re4.40xlarge instance types are SAP HANA-certified.
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases such as SAP HANA
Memory-intensive applications
Big data processing engines such as Apache Spark and Presto
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:12 and up to 1,920 GiB of memory.
Uses 2.2 GHz Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v4 (Broadwell) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 2.4 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
The re4 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.re4.10xlarge, ecs.re4.20xlarge, and ecs.re4.40xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
re4e, high-memory instance family
To use the re4e instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family is optimized for high-performance databases, in-memory databases, and enterprise-level memory-intensive applications.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:24 and up to 3,840 GiB of memory.
Uses 2.2 GHz Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v4 (Broadwell) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of up to 2.4 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supported scenarios:
High-performance databases and in-memory databases such as SAP HANA
Memory-intensive applications
Big data processing engines such as Apache Spark and Presto
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | Private IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.re4e.40xlarge | 160 | 3840 | 30 | 4,500,000 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 1 |
x86-based entry-level computing instance families
e, economy instance family
Features:
Compute:
Offers multiple CPU-to-memory ratios such as 1:1, 1:2, and 1:4.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Platinum Scalable processors.
NoteInstances of the e instance family use a CPU-unbound scheduling scheme, in which each vCPU is randomly allocated to an idle CPU hyperthread. Compared with enterprise-level instances, e instances share resources and cost less.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports enhanced SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD Entry disks, and ESSD AutoPL disks.
NoteDue to the limits of economy instance types, ESSDs at performance levels 1, 2, and 3 (PL1, PL2, and PL3 ESSDs) cannot deliver their maximum performance on e instances. We recommend that you select ESSD Entry disks or PL0 ESSDs for the instances.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only virtual private clouds (VPCs).
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Supported scenarios:
Small and medium-sized websites
Development and testing
Lightweight applications
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.e-c4m1.large | 2 | 0.5 | 0.2/burstable up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8,000/none | 0.4/none |
ecs.e-c2m1.large | 2 | 1 | 0.2/burstable up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8,000/none | 0.4/none |
ecs.e-c1m1.large | 2 | 2.0 | 0.2/burstable up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8,000/none | 0.4/none |
ecs.e-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0 | 0.2/burstable up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8,000/none | 0.4/none |
ecs.e-c1m4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 0.4/burstable up to 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16,000/none | 0.8/none |
ecs.e-c1m2.xlarge | 4 | 8.0 | 0.4/burstable up to 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 16,000/none | 0.8/none |
ecs.e-c1m4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 0.8/burstable up to 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 16,000/none | 0.8/none |
ecs.e-c1m2.2xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 0.8/burstable up to 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 16,000/none | 0.8/none |
ecs.e-c1m4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 1.2/burstable up to 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 16,000/none | 0.8/none |
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
The following limits apply to the ecs.e-c4m1.large, ecs.e-c2m1.large, ecs.e-c1m1.large, ecs.e-c1m2.large, and ecs.e-c1m4.large instance types:
Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs) cannot be bound to ecs.e-c1m1.large, ecs.e-c1m2.large, or ecs.e-c1m4.large instances during instance creation and can be bound after the instances are created.
You can bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from ecs.e-c1m1.large, ecs.e-c1m2.large, and ecs.e-c1m4.large instances only when the instances are in the Stopped state.
The ecs.e-c4m1.large and ecs.e-c2m1.large1.large instance types are available for purchase only in the following regions: China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), UK (London), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Virginia), and US (Silicon Valley).
t6, burstable instance family
Features:
Provides a CPU performance baseline and the ability to burst above the baseline, which are governed by accrued CPU credits.
More cost-effective compared with the t5 burstable instance family.
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Cascade Lake processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Uses DDR4 memory.
Storage:
Is an I/O optimized instance.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
ImportantESSDs at performance level (PL) 2 and 3 cannot provide maximum performance due to the specification limits of burstable instances. We recommend that you use enterprise-level instances or ESSDs of lower performance levels.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only virtual private clouds (VPCs).
Supported scenarios:
Web application servers
Lightweight applications and microservices
Development and testing environments
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Average baseline CPU performance | CPU credits per hour | Max CPU credit balance | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.t6-c4m1.large | 2 | 0.5 | 5% | 6 | 144 | 0.08/burstable up to 0.4 | 40,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c2m1.large | 2 | 1.0 | 10% | 12 | 288 | 0.08/burstable up to 0.6 | 60,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c1m1.large | 2 | 2.0 | 20% | 24 | 576 | 0.08/burstable up to 1 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0 | 20% | 24 | 576 | 0.08/burstable up to 1 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c1m4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 30% | 36 | 864 | 0.08/burstable up to 1 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c1m4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 40% | 96 | 2304 | 0.16/burstable up to 2 | 200,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t6-c1m4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 40% | 192 | 4608 | 0.32/burstable up to 4 | 400,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs) cannot be bound to instances of this instance family when the instances are being created and can be bound to the instances after the instances are created. When you bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from instances of the following instance types, make sure that the instances are in the Stopped state: ecs.t6-c1m1.large, ecs.t6-c1m2.large, ecs.t6-c1m4.large, ecs.t6-c2m1.large, and ecs.t6-c4m1.large.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For information about instance type metrics, see Instance type metrics.
t5, burstable instance family
Features:
Provides a CPU performance baseline and the ability to burst above the baseline, which are governed by accrued CPU credits.
Balances compute, memory, and network resources.
Compute:
Offers multiple CPU-to-memory ratios.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® processors.
Uses DDR4 memory.
Storage: supports only ultra disks and standard SSDs.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Supported scenarios:
Web application servers
Lightweight applications and microservices
Development and testing environments
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Average baseline CPU performance | CPU credits per hour | Max CPU credit balance | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.t5-lc2m1.nano | 1 | 0.5 | 20% | 12 | 288 | 0.1 | 40,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-lc1m1.small | 1 | 1.0 | 20% | 12 | 288 | 0.2 | 60,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-lc1m2.small | 1 | 2.0 | 20% | 12 | 288 | 0.2 | 60,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-lc1m2.large | 2 | 4.0 | 20% | 24 | 576 | 0.4 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-lc1m4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 20% | 24 | 576 | 0.4 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m1.large | 2 | 2.0 | 25% | 30 | 720 | 0.5 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0 | 25% | 30 | 720 | 0.5 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 25% | 30 | 720 | 0.5 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m1.xlarge | 4 | 4.0 | 25% | 60 | 1440 | 0.8 | 200,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m2.xlarge | 4 | 8.0 | 25% | 60 | 1440 | 0.8 | 200,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 25% | 60 | 1440 | 0.8 | 200,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m1.2xlarge | 8 | 8.0 | 25% | 120 | 2880 | 1.2 | 400,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m2.2xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 25% | 120 | 2880 | 1.2 | 400,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 25% | 120 | 2880 | 1.2 | 400,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m1.4xlarge | 16 | 16.0 | 25% | 240 | 5760 | 1.2 | 600,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.t5-c1m2.4xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 25% | 240 | 5760 | 1.2 | 600,000 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Secondary ENIs cannot be bound to instances of this instance family when the instances are being created and can be bound to the instances after the instances are created. When you bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from instances of the following instance types, make sure that the instances are in the Stopped state: ecs.t5-lc2m1.nano, ecs.t5-c1m1.large, ecs.t5-c1m2.large, ecs.t5-c1m4.large, ecs.t5-lc1m1.small, ecs.t5-lc1m2.large, ecs.t5-lc1m2.small, and ecs.t5-lc1m4.large.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For information about instance type metrics, see Instance type metrics.
v5, CPU overprovisioned instance family
- You can create v5 instances only on dedicated hosts.
- Compute:
- Supports multiple CPU-to-memory ratios such as 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, and 1:8.
- Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
- Storage:
- Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
- Supports ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
- Network:
- Supports IPv6.
- Suits the following scenarios:
- Migration from offline virtualization environments to Alibaba Cloud
- Services that generate low, medium, or burstable CPU loads
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (Kpps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.large | 2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.xlarge | 4 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.2xlarge | 8 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.3xlarge | 12 | 12.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.4xlarge | 16 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m1.8xlarge | 32 | 32.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.xlarge | 4 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.2xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.3xlarge | 12 | 24.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.4xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m2.8xlarge | 32 | 64.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.3xlarge | 12 | 48.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.4xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m4.8xlarge | 32 | 128.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.large | 2 | 16.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.xlarge | 4 | 32.0 | 2.0 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.2xlarge | 8 | 64.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.3xlarge | 12 | 96.0 | 3.0 | 400 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.4xlarge | 16 | 128.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| ecs.v5-c1m8.8xlarge | 32 | 256.0 | 4.0 | 500 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
xn4, n4, mn4, and e4, previous-generation shared instance families
Features:
Offer multiple CPU-to-memory ratios.
Use 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® processors.
Use DDR4 memory.
Are instance families in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Support only IPv4.
Instance family | Description | vCPU-to-memory ratio | Scenario |
xn4 | Shared compact instance family | 1:1 |
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n4 | Shared compute instance family | 1:2 |
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mn4 | Shared general-purpose instance family | 1:4 |
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e4 | Shared memory instance family | 1:8 |
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xn4 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Network interface controller (NIC) queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.xn4.small | 1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Secondary ENIs cannot be bound to instances of this instance family during instance creation and can be bound after the instances are created. You can bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from an ecs.xn4.small instance only when the instance is in the Stopped state.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
n4 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.n4.small | 1 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.n4.large | 2 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.n4.xlarge | 4 | 8.0 | 0.8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.n4.2xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 1.2 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.n4.4xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 2.5 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.n4.8xlarge | 32 | 64.0 | 5.0 | 50 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Secondary ENIs cannot be bound to instances of this instance family during instance creation and can be bound after the instances are created. You can bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from instances of specific instance types, including ecs.n4.small and ecs.n4.large, only when the instances are in the Stopped state.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
mn4 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.mn4.small | 1 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.mn4.large | 2 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.mn4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 0.8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.mn4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 1.2 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.mn4.4xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 2.5 | 40 | 1 | 8 | 6 |
ecs.mn4.8xlarge | 32 | 128.0 | 5 | 50 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
Secondary ENIs cannot be bound to instances of this instance family during instance creation and can be bound after the instances are created. You can bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from instances of specific instance types, including ecs.mn4.small and ecs.mn4.large, only when the instances are in the Stopped state.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
e4 instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory size (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.e4.small | 1 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.e4.large | 2 | 16.0 | 0.5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
ecs.e4.xlarge | 4 | 32.0 | 0.8 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.e4.2xlarge | 8 | 64.0 | 1.2 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
ecs.e4.4xlarge | 16 | 128.0 | 2.5 | 40 | 1 | 8 | 6 |
Secondary ENIs cannot be bound to instances of this instance family during instance creation and can be bound after the instances are created. You can bind secondary ENIs to or unbind secondary ENIs from instances of specific instance types, including ecs.e4.small and ecs.e4.large, only when the instances are in the Stopped state.
You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available in each region.
For more information about these specifications, see the "Instance type specifications" section in Overview of instance families. Packet forwarding rates vary significantly based on business scenarios. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types.
Arm-based enterprise-level computing instance families
g8y, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses in-house Arm-based YiTian 710 processors and the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: containers, microservices, websites, application servers, video encoding and decoding, HPC, and CPU-based machine learning.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.75 GHz Yitian 710 processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high network and storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g8y instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Maximum attached data disks | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g8y.small | 1 | 4 | 1/10 | 500,000 | Up to 250,000 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 1/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8y.large | 2 | 8 | 2/10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 20,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 1.5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8y.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 3/10 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 40,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 2/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8y.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 5/10 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 50,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 3/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8y.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 10/25 | 3,000,000 | 400,000 | 25 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 80,000/burstable up to 110,000 | 5/burstable up to 10 |
ecs.g8y.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 16/25 | 5,000,000 | 750,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 125,000 | 10 |
ecs.g8y.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 32/none | 10,000,000 | 1,500,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 250,000 | 16 |
ecs.g8y.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 64/none | 20,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 500,000 | 32 |
If you want to use the ecs.g8y.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.
c8y, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses in-house Arm-based YiTian 710 processors and the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: containers, microservices, websites, application servers, video encoding and decoding, HPC, and CPU-based machine learning.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.75 GHz YiTian 710 processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c8y instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c8y.small, ecs.c8y.large, ecs.c8y.xlarge, ecs.c8y.2xlarge, ecs.c8y.4xlarge, ecs.c8y.8xlarge, ecs.c8y.16xlarge, and ecs.c8y.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
r8y, memory-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses in-house Arm-based YiTian 710 processors and the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: scenarios such as containers, microservices, websites and application servers, video encoding and decoding, high-performance computing, and CPU-based machine learning.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.75 GHz YiTian 710 processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The r8y instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8y.small, ecs.r8y.large, ecs.r8y.xlarge, ecs.r8y.2xlarge, ecs.r8y.4xlarge, ecs.r8y.8xlarge, ecs.r8y.16xlarge, and ecs.r8y.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.
g6r, general-purpose instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios: containers, microservices, scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested, websites, application servers, game servers, and CPU-based machine learning and inference.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.8 GHz Ampere® Altra® processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
g6r instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.g6r.large | 2 | 8 | 1/10 | 900,000 | Up to 250,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 12,500 | 1 |
ecs.g6r.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5/10 | 1,000,000 | Up to 250,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.g6r.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5/10 | 1,600,000 | Up to 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 30,000 | 2 |
ecs.g6r.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5/10 | 2,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 60,000 | 3 |
ecs.g6r.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 8/10 | 3,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 75,000 | 4 |
ecs.g6r.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 900,000 | 32 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 150,000 | 8 |
c6r, compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Containers and microservices
Scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested
Websites and application servers
CPU-based machine learning and inference
High-performance nce and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.8 GHz Ampere® Altra® processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The c6r instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.c6r.large, ecs.c6r.xlarge, ecs.c6r.2xlarge, ecs.c6r.4xlarge, ecs.c6r.8xlarge, and ecs.c6r.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
ECS Bare Metal Instance families
ebmgn8v, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
This instance family is available only in specific regions, including regions outside China. To use the instance family, contact Alibaba Cloud sales personnel.
Introduction: This instance family is an 8th-generation GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family provided by Alibaba Cloud for AI model training and ultra-large models. Each instance of this instance family is equipped with eight GPUs.
Supported scenarios:
Multi-GPU parallel inference computing for large language models (LLMs) that have more than 70 billion parameters
Traditional AI model training and autonomous driving training, for which each GPU delivers computing power of up to 39.5 TFLOPS in the single-precision floating-point format (FP32)
Small and medium-sized model training scenarios that leverage the NVLink connections among the eight GPUs
Benefits and positioning:
High-speed and large-capacity GPU memory: Each GPU is equipped with 96 GB of HBM3E memory and delivers up to 4 TB/s of memory bandwidth, which greatly accelerates model training and inference.
High bandwidth between GPUs: Multiple GPUs are interconnected by using 900 GB/s NVLink connections. The efficiency of multi-GPU training and inference is much higher than that of previous generations of GPU-accelerated instances.
Quantization of large models: This instance family supports computing power in the 8-bit floating point format (FP8) and optimizes computing power for large-scale parameter training and inference. This significantly improves the computing speed of training and inference and reduces memory usage.
Compute:
Uses the latest CIPU 1.0 processors.
Decouples computing capabilities from storage capabilities, allowing you to flexibly select storage resources based on your business requirements, and increases inter-instance bandwidth to 160 Gbit/s for faster data transmission and processing compared with 7th-generation instance families.
Uses the bare metal capabilities provided by CIPU processors to support peer-to-peer (P2P) communication between GPU-accelerated instances.
Uses the 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.1 GHz and provides 192 vCPUs.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and elastic ephemeral disks (EEDs). For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 30,000,000 pps.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs) to allow inter-instance RDMA-based communication in VPCs and provides up to 160 Gbit/s of bandwidth per instance, which is suitable for training tasks based on CV models and traditional models.
NoteFor information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | NIC queues (Primary ENI/Secondary ENI) | ENIs | Maximum attached data disks | Maximum disk bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmgn8v.48xlarge | 192 | 1,024 | 96GB*8 | 160 (80 × 2) | 30,000,000 | 30 | 30 | 64 | 32 | 31 | 6 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the images support the UEFI boot mode and the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
ebmgn8is, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
This instance family is available only in specific regions, including regions outside China. To use the instance family, contact Alibaba Cloud sales personnel.
Introduction: This instance family is an 8th-generation GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal instance family provided by Alibaba Cloud in response to the recent developments in the AI generation field. Each instance of this instance family is equipped with eight GPUs.
Supported scenarios:
Production and rendering of special effects for animation, film, and television based on workstation-level graphics processing capabilities in scenarios in which Alibaba Cloud Marketplace GRID images are used, the GRID driver is installed, and OpenGL and Direct3D graphics capabilities are enabled
Scenarios in which the management services provided by Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) for containerized applications are used to support AI-generated graphic content and LLM inference tasks with up to 130 billion parameters
Other general-purpose AI recognition, image recognition, and speech recognition scenarios
Benefits and positioning:
Graphic processing: This instance family uses high-frequency 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors to deliver sufficient CPU computing power in 3D modeling scenarios and achieve smooth graphics rendering and design.
Inference tasks: This instance family uses innovative GPUs, each with 48 GB of memory, which accelerate inference tasks and support the FP8 floating-point format. You can use this instance family together with ACK to support the inference of various AI-generated content (AIGC) models and accommodate inference tasks for LLMs that have less than 70 billion parameters.
Training tasks: This instance family provides cost-effective computing capabilities and delivers the FP32 computing performance double that of the 7th-generation inference instances. Instances of this instance family are suitable for training FP32-based CV models and other small and medium-sized models.
Uses the latest CIPU 1.0 processors that provide the following benefits:
Decouples computing capabilities from storage capabilities, allowing you to flexibly select storage resources based on your business requirements, and increases inter-instance bandwidth to 160 Gbit/s for faster data transmission and processing compared with previous-generation instance families.
Uses the bare metal capabilities provided by CIPU processors to support Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) P2P communication between GPU-accelerated instances.
Compute:
Uses innovative GPUs that have the following features:
Support for acceleration features such as vGPU, RTX technology, and TensorRT inference engine
Support for PCIe Switch interconnect, which achieves a 36% increase in NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) performance compared with the CPU direct connection scheme and helps improve inference performance by up to 9% when you run LLM inference tasks on multiple GPUs in parallel
Support for eight GPUs per instance with 48 GB of memory per GPU to support LLM inference tasks with 70 billion or more parameters on a single instance
Uses 3.4 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (SPR) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.9 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and EEDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 30,000,000 pps.
Supports ERIs to allow inter-instance RDMA-based communication in VPCs and provides up to 160 Gbit/s of bandwidth per instance, which is suitable for training tasks based on CV models and traditional models.
NoteFor information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | NIC queues (Primary ENI/Secondary ENI) | ENIs | Maximum attached data disks | Maximum disk bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmgn8is.32xlarge | 128 | 1,024 | 48 GB × 8 | 160 (80 × 2) | 30,000,000 | 30 | 30 | 64/16 | 32 | 31 | 6 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the images support the UEFI boot mode and the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
ebmgn7e, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning training and development
High-performance computing (HPC) and simulations
ImportantWhen you use AI training services that feature a high communication load, such as transformer models, you must enable NVLink for GPU-to-GPU communication. Otherwise, data may be damaged due to unpredictable failures that are caused by large-scale data transmission over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) links. If you do not understand the topology of the communication links that are used for AI training services, submit a ticket to obtain technical support.
Compute:
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and supports PCIe 4.0 interfaces.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues (Primary NIC/Secondary NIC) | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn7e.32xlarge | 128 | 1,024 | 80 GB × 8 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32/12 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
You must check the status of the multi-instance GPU (MIG) feature and enable or disable the MIG feature after you start an ebmgn7e instance. For information about the MIG feature, see NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU User Guide.
The following table describes whether the MIG feature is supported by the instance types in the ebmgn7e instance family.
Instance type | Support for MIG | Description |
ecs.ebmgn7e.32xlarge | Yes | The MIG feature is supported by ebmgn7e instances. |
ebmgn7i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
Supported scenarios:
Concurrent AI inference tasks that require high-performance CPUs, memory, and GPUs, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and behavior identification
Compute-intensive graphics processing tasks that require high-performance 3D graphics virtualization capabilities, such as remote graphic design and cloud gaming
Scenarios that require high network bandwidth and disk bandwidth, such as the creation of high-performance render farms
Small-scale deep learning and training applications that require high network bandwidth
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA A10 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Support for acceleration features such as vGPU, RTX technology, and TensorRT inference engine
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn7i.32xlarge | 128 | 768 | NVIDIA A10 × 4 | 24 GB × 4 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn7, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications that require robust GPU computing capabilities, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Compute:
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn7.26xlarge | 104 | 768 | 40 GB × 8 | 30 | 18,000,000 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6ia, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs to offer GPU acceleration capabilities for graphics and AI applications and adopts container technology to start at least 60 virtual Android devices and provide hardware-accelerated video transcoding.
Supported scenarios:
Remote application services based on Android, such as always-on cloud-based services, cloud-based mobile games, cloud-based mobile phones, and Android service crawlers.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.
Uses 2.8 GHz Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz and provides high performance and high compatibility with applications for Android servers.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn6ia.20xlarge | 80 | 256 | NVIDIA T4 × 2 | 16 GB × 2 | 32 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
Ampere® Altra® processors have specific requirements for operating system kernels. Instances of the preceding instance type can use Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 images and CentOS 8.4 or later images. We recommend that you use Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 images on the instances. If you want to use another operating system distribution, patch the kernel of an instance that runs an operating system of that distribution, create a custom image from the instance, and then use the custom image to create instances of the instance type. For information about kernel patches, visit Ampere Altra (TM) Linux Kernel Porting Guide.
ebmgn6e, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
This instance family uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs that each have 32 GB of GPU memory and support NVLink.
This instance family uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Volta architecture
32 GB of HBM2 memory (900 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
5,120 CUDA cores per GPU
640 Tensor cores per GPU
Up to six NVLink connections per GPU, each of which provides a bandwidth of 25 GB/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300)
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training and inference applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn6e.24xlarge | 96 | 768 | NVIDIA V100 × 8 | 32 GB × 8 | 32 | 4,800,000 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6v, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
This instance family uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs.
This instance family uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Volta architecture
16 GB of HBM2 memory (900 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
5,120 CUDA cores per GPU
640 Tensor cores per GPU
Up to six NVLink connections per GPU, each of which provides a bandwidth of 25 GB/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300)
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training and inference applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn6v.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | NVIDIA V100 × 8 | 16 GB × 8 | 30 | 4,500,000 | 8 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
This instance family uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Turing architecture
16 GB of memory (320 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
2,560 CUDA cores per GPU
Up to 320 Turing Tensor cores per GPU
Mixed-precision Tensor cores that support 65 FP16 TFLOPS, 130 INT8 TOPS, and 260 INT4 TOPS
Supported scenarios:
AI (deep learning and machine learning) inference for computer vision, voice recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and reference systems
Real-time rendering for cloud gaming
Real-time rendering for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications
Graphics workstations or graphics-heavy computing
GPU-accelerated databases
High-performance computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmgn6i.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | NVIDIA T4 × 4 | 16 GB × 4 | 30 | 4,500,000 | 8 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmc8i, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Uses Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids processors that deliver a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteWhen you purchase an instance of this instance family, the system randomly allocates one type of the preceding processors to the instance. You cannot select a processor type for the instance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Operating system versions that support AMD Genoa processors used by eighth-generation AMD instance types.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc8i.48xlarge | 192 | 512 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 (primary ENI)/16 (secondary ENI) | 72 | 30 | 30 | 1,000,000/none | 48/none |
ebmc7, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers of MMO games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel ® Xeon ® Platinum 8369B (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc7.32xlarge | 128 | 256 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 2,400,000 | 32 | 20 | 20 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmc7a, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Data analytics and computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc7a.64xlarge | 256 | 512 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 15 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
Ubuntu 18 and Debian 9 operating system kernels do not support AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors. Do not use Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this instance family. Instances of this instance family that are created from Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images cannot start.
ebmc6me, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Frontend servers of MMO games
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.
Uses 2.3 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc6me.16xlarge | 64 | 192 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmc6a, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
This instance family is in invitational preview. To use the instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Data analytics and computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYCTM ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc6a.64xlarge | 256 | 512 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
ebmc6e, performance-enhanced compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers of MMO games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc6e.26xlarge | 104 | 192 | 32 | 24,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 480,000 | 16 |
ebmc6, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Frontend servers of MMO games
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc6.26xlarge | 104 | 192 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmg8i, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Uses Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids processors that deliver a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteWhen you purchase an instance of this instance family, the system randomly allocates one type of the preceding processors to the instance. You cannot select a processor type for the instance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Compatibility between Intel instance types and operating systems.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg8i.48xlarge | 192 | 1,024 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 (primary ENI)/16 (secondary ENI) | 72 | 30 | 30 | 1,000,000/none | 48/none |
ebmg7, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8369B (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg7.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 2,400,000 | 32 | 20 | 20 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmg7a, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Data analytics and computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC™ MILAN processors that deliver a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg7a.64xlarge | 256 | 1,024 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 15 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
Ubuntu 18 and Debian 9 operating system kernels do not support AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors. Do not use Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this instance family. Instances of this instance family that are created from Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images cannot start.
ebmg6a, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
This instance family is in invitational preview. To use this instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Data analytics and computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYC™ ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg6a.64xlarge | 256 | 1,024 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
ebmg6e, performance-enhanced general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg6e.26xlarge | 104 | 384 | 32 | 24,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 480,000 | 16 |
ebmg6, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Enterprise-level applications such as large and medium-sized databases
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Data analytics and computing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg6.26xlarge | 104 | 384 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
The CPU monitoring information about ECS bare metal instances cannot be obtained. To obtain the CPU monitoring information about an ECS bare metal instance, install the CloudMonitor agent on the instance. For more information, see Install and uninstall the CloudMonitor agent.
ebmr7, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel ® Xeon ® Platinum 8369B (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr7.32xlarge | 128 | 1,024 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 2,400,000 | 32 | 20 | 20 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmr7a, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
In-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.55 GHz AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors that deliver a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr7a.64xlarge | 256 | 2,048 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 15 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
Ubuntu 18 and Debian 9 operating system kernels do not support AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors. Do not use Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this instance family. Instances of this instance family that are created from Ubuntu 18 or Debian 9 images cannot start.
ebmr6a, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
This instance family is in invitational preview. To use the instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
In-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.6 GHz AMD EPYCTM ROME processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr6a.64xlarge | 256 | 2,048 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
The boot mode of the images that are used by instances of this instance family must be UEFI. If you want to use custom images on the instances, make sure that the boot mode of the images is set to UEFI. For information about how to set the boot mode of a custom image, see Set the boot mode of custom images to the UEFI mode by calling API operations.
ebmr6e, performance-enhanced memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr6e.26xlarge | 104 | 768 | 32 | 24,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 480,000 | 16 |
ebmr6, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr6.26xlarge | 104 | 768 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmre6p, persistent memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
To use the ebmre6p instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
In-memory databases such as Redis
High-performance databases such as SAP HANA
Other memory-intensive applications such as AI applications and smart search applications
Compute:
Uses the Intel® OptaneTM persistent memory and is tuned for Redis applications in an end-to-end manner to provide cost-effectiveness.
Supports a total memory capacity of up to 1,920 GiB (384 GiB of DRAM + 1,536 GiB of Intel® OptaneTM persistent memory), offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:20, and can meet the needs of memory-intensive applications.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Persistent memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmre6p.26xlarge | 104 | 384 | 1,536 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmre6-6t, performance-enhanced memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
To use the ebmre6-6t instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
In-memory databases and high-performance databases such as SAP HANA
Memory-intensive applications
Big data processing engines such as Apache Spark and Presto
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:30.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmre6-6t.52xlarge | 208 | 6,144 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmhfg7, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
High-performance scientific computing
Video encoding applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cooper Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of at least 3.3 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfg7.48xlarge | 192 | 768 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmhfc7, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance frontend server clusters
Frontend servers of MMO games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cooper Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of at least 3.3 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfc7.48xlarge | 192 | 384 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmhfr7, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cooper Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of at least 3.3 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfr7.48xlarge | 192 | 1,536 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 600,000 | 32 |
ebmhfg6, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Enterprise-level applications such as large and medium-sized databases
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.8.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfg6.20xlarge | 80 | 384 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmhfc6, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.4.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfc6.20xlarge | 80 | 192 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmhfr6, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:9.6.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmhfr6.20xlarge | 80 | 768 | 32 | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
High-performance computing and SCC instance families
scchfc6, compute-optimized SCC instance family with high clock speeds
To use it, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.
Supported scenarios:
Large-scale machine learning training
Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations
Large-scale data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.4.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports enhanced SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Physical cores | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | RoCE network bandwidth (Gbit/s) | ENIs |
ecs.scchfc6.20xlarge | 80 | 40 | 192.0 | 30 | 6,000,000 | 50 | 32 |
ecs.scchfc6.20xlarge provides 80 logical processors on 40 physical cores.
scchfg6, general-purpose SCC instance family with high clock speeds
To use it, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.
Supported scenarios:
Large-scale machine learning training
Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations
Large-scale data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.8.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Physical cores | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | RoCE network bandwidth (Gbit/s) | ENIs |
ecs.scchfg6.20xlarge | 80 | 40 | 384.0 | 30 | 6,000,000 | 50 | 32 |
ecs.scchfg6.20xlarge provides 80 logical processors on 40 physical cores.
scchfr6, memory-optimized SCC instance family with high clock speeds
To use it, submit a ticket.
Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.
Supported scenarios:
Large-scale machine learning training
Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations
Large-scale data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:9.6.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Physical cores | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | RoCE network bandwidth (Gbit/s) | ENIs |
ecs.scchfr6.20xlarge | 80 | 40 | 768.0 | 30 | 6,000,000 | 50 | 32 |
ecs.scchfr6.20xlarge provides 80 logical processors on 40 physical cores.
scch5, SCC instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.
Supported scenarios:
Large-scale machine learning training
Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations
Large-scale data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports only standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Physical cores | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | RoCE network bandwidth (Gbit/s) | ENIs |
ecs.scch5.16xlarge | 64 | 32 | 192.0 | 10 | 4,500,000 | 50 | 32 |
ecs.scch5.16xlarge provides 64 logical processors on 32 physical cores.
ebmc5s, network-enhanced compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Video encoding, decoding, and rendering
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 2.7 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmc5s.24xlarge | 96 | 192 | 32 | 4,500,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmg5s, network-enhanced general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Enterprise-level applications such as large and medium-sized databases
Video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 2.7 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg5s.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 32 | 4,500,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmr5s, network-enhanced memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 2.7 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmr5s.24xlarge | 96 | 768 | 32 | 4,500,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 10 | 200,000 | 16 |
ebmg5, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Introduction: This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments
Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch
Enterprise-level applications such as large and medium-sized databases
Video encoding
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 2.7 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,000,000 pps.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.ebmg5.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 10 | 4,000,000 | 32 | 10 |
Enterprise-level heterogeneous computing instance families
sgn7i-vws, vGPU-accelerated instance family with shared CPUs
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude. This way, data storage and model loading can be performed more quickly.
Instances of this instance family share CPU and network resources to maximize the utilization of underlying resources. Each instance has exclusive access to its memory and GPU memory to provide data isolation and performance assurance.
NoteIf you want to use exclusive CPU resources, select the vgn7i-vws instance family.
This instance family comes with an NVIDIA GRID vWS license and provides certified graphics acceleration capabilities for Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to meet the requirements of professional graphic design. Instances of this instance family can serve as lightweight GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instances to reduce the costs of small-scale AI inference tasks.
Supported scenarios:
Concurrent AI inference tasks that require high-performance CPUs, memory, and GPUs, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and behavior identification
Compute-intensive graphics processing tasks that require high-performance 3D graphics virtualization capabilities, such as remote graphic design and cloud gaming
3D modeling in fields that require the use of Ice Lake processors, such as animation and film production, cloud gaming, and mechanical design
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA A10 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Support for acceleration features, such as vGPU, RTX, and TensorRT, to provide diversified business support
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The sgn7i-vws instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.sgn7i-vws-m2.xlarge, ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4.2xlarge, ecs.sgn7i-vws-m8.4xlarge, ecs.sgn7i-vws-m2s.xlarge, ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge, and ecs.sgn7i-vws-m8s.4xlarge. The following table describes the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPUs | GPU memory | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m2.xlarge | 4 | 15.5 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/12 | 24GB * 1/12 | 1.5/5 | 500,000 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4.2xlarge | 8 | 31 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/6 | 24GB * 1/6 | 2.5/10 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m8.4xlarge | 16 | 62 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/3 | 24GB * 1/3 | 5/20 | 2,000,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m2s.xlarge | 4 | 8 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/12 | 24GB * 1/12 | 1.5/5 | 500,000 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m4s.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/6 | 24GB * 1/6 | 2.5/10 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
ecs.sgn7i-vws-m8s.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | NVIDIA A10 * 1/3 | 24GB * 1/3 | 5/20 | 2,000,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
The GPU column in the preceding table indicates the GPU model and GPU slicing information for each instance type. Each GPU can be sliced into multiple GPU partitions, and each GPU partition can be allocated as a vGPU to an instance. Example:
NVIDIA A10 * 1/12. NVIDIA A10 is the GPU model. 1/12 indicates that a GPU is sliced into 12 GPU partitions, and each GPU partition can be allocated as a vGPU to an instance.
vgn7i-vws, vGPU-accelerated instance family
Introduction:
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude. This way, data storage and model loading can be performed more quickly.
This instance family comes with an NVIDIA GRID vWS license and provides certified graphics acceleration capabilities for CAD software to meet the requirements of professional graphic design. Instances of this instance family can serve as lightweight GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instances to reduce the costs of small-scale AI inference tasks.
Supported scenarios:
Concurrent AI inference tasks that require high-performance CPUs, memory, and GPUs, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and behavior identification
Compute-intensive graphics processing tasks that require high-performance 3D graphics virtualization capabilities, such as remote graphic design and cloud gaming
3D modeling in fields that require the use of Ice Lake processors, such as animation and film production, cloud gaming, and mechanical design
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA A10 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Support for acceleration features, such as vGPU, RTX, and TensorRT, to provide diversified business support
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The vgn7i-vws instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.vgn7i-vws-m4.xlarge, ecs.vgn7i-vws-m8.2xlarge, ecs.vgn7i-vws-m12.3xlarge, and ecs.vgn7i-vws-m24.7xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
vgn6i-vws, vGPU-accelerated instance family
In light of the NVIDIA GRID driver upgrade, Alibaba Cloud upgrades the vgn6i instance family to the vgn6i-vws instance family. The vgn6i-vws instance family uses the latest NVIDIA GRID driver and provides an NVIDIA GRID vWS license. To apply for free images for which the NVIDIA GRID driver is pre-installed, submit a ticket.
To use other public images or custom images that do not contain an NVIDIA GRID driver, submit a ticket to apply for the GRID driver file and install the NVIDIA GRID driver. Alibaba Cloud does not charge additional license fees for the GRID driver.
Supported scenarios:
Real-time rendering for cloud gaming
Real-time rendering for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications
AI (deep learning and machine learning) inference for elastic Internet service deployment
Educational environment of deep learning
Modeling experiment environment of deep learning
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs.
Uses vGPUs.
Supports the 1/4 and 1/2 compute capacity of NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs.
Supports 4 GB and 8 GB of GPU memory.
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:5.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The vgn6i-vws instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.vgn6i-m4-vws.xlarge, ecs.vgn6i-m8-vws.2xlarge, and ecs.vgn6i-m16-vws.5xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn8v, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
This instance family is available only in specific regions, including regions outside China. To use the instance family, contact Alibaba Cloud sales personnel.
Introduction: This instance family is an 8th-generation GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family provided by Alibaba Cloud for AI model training and the inference tasks of ultra-large models. This instance family consists of multiple instance types that provide one, two, four, or eight GPUs per instance.
Supported scenarios:
Multi-GPU parallel inference computing for large language models (LLMs) that have more than 70 billion parameters
Traditional AI model training and autonomous driving training, for which each GPU delivers computing power of up to 39.5 TFLOPS in the single-precision floating-point format (FP32)
Small and medium-sized model training scenarios that leverage the NVLink connections among the eight GPUs
Benefits and positioning:
High-speed and large-capacity GPU memory: Each GPU is equipped with 96 GB of HBM3E memory and delivers up to 4 TB/s of memory bandwidth, which greatly accelerates model training and inference.
High bandwidth between GPUs: Multiple GPUs are interconnected by using 900 GB/s NVLink connections. The efficiency of multi-GPU training and inference is much higher than that of previous generations of GPU-accelerated instances.
Quantization of large models: This instance family supports computing power in the 8-bit floating point format (FP8) and optimizes computing power for large-scale parameter training and inference. This significantly improves the computing speed of training and inference and reduces memory usage.
High security: This instance family supports confidential computing capabilities that cover the full link of model inference tasks. The capabilities include CPU-based Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) confidential computing and GPU-based NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC). The confidential computing capabilities ensure the security of user inference data and enterprise models in model inference and training.
Compute:
Uses the latest Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) 1.0 processors.
Decouples computing capabilities from storage capabilities, allowing you to flexibly select storage resources based on your business requirements.
Provides bare metal capabilities to support peer-to-peer (P2P) communication between GPU-accelerated instances.
Uses the 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors that deliver a base frequency of up to 2.8 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.1 GHz.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and elastic ephemeral disks (EEDs).
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of up to 30,000,000 pps (for instances equipped with eight GPUs).
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs).
NoteFor information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
The gn8v instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn8v.4xlarge, ecs.gn8v.6xlarge, ecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge, ecs.gn8v-4x.8xlarge, ecs.gn8v-2x.12xlarge, ecs.gn8v-8x.16xlarge, ecs.gn8v-4x.24xlarge, and ecs.gn8v-8x.48xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn8is, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
This instance family is available only in specific regions, including regions outside China. To use the instance family, contact Alibaba Cloud sales personnel.
Introduction: This instance family is an 8th-generation GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family provided by Alibaba Cloud in response to the recent developments in the AI generation field. This instance family consists of multiple instance types that provide one, two, four, or eight GPUs per instance and have different CPU-to-GPU ratios to fit various use cases.
Benefits and positioning:
Graphic processing: This instance family uses high-frequency 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors to provide sufficient CPU capacity for smooth graphics rendering and design in 3D modeling scenarios.
Inference tasks: This instance family uses innovative GPUs, each with 48 GB of memory, which accelerate inference tasks and support the FP8 floating-point format. You can use this instance family together with Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) to support the inference of various AI-generated content (AIGC) models and especially accommodate inference tasks for LLMs that have less than 70 billion parameters.
Supported scenarios:
Animation, special effects for film and television, and rendering
Generation of AIGC images and inference of LLMs
Other general-purpose AI recognition, image recognition, and speech recognition scenarios
Compute:
Uses innovative GPUs that have the following features:
Support for acceleration features, such as TensorRT, and the FP8 floating-point format to improve LLM inference performance.
Up to 48 GB of memory per GPU and support for the inference of 70B or larger LLMs on a single instance with multiple GPUs.
Improved graphic processing capabilities. For example, after you install a GRID driver on a gn8is instance by using Cloud Assistant or an Alibaba Cloud Marketplace image, the instance can provide graphic processing performance twice that of a 7th-generation instance.
Uses the latest high-frequency Intel® Xeon® processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz to meet complex 3D modeling requirements.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and EEDs.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports ERIs.
NoteFor information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
The gn8is instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn8is.2xlarge, ecs.gn8is.4xlarge, ecs.gn8is-2x.8xlarge, ecs.gn8is-4x.16xlarge, and ecs.gn8is-8x.32xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn7e, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Features:
Introduction:
This instance family allows you to select instance types that provide different numbers of GPUs and CPUs to meet your business requirements in AI use cases.
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and doubles the average bandwidths of virtual private clouds (VPCs), networks, and disks compared with instance families of the previous generation.
Supported scenarios:
Small- and medium-scale AI training
High-performance computing (HPC) business accelerated by using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)
AI inference tasks that require high GPU processing capabilities or large amounts of GPU memory
Deep learning applications, such as training applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications that require robust GPU computing capabilities, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
ImportantWhen you use AI training services that feature a high communication load, such as transformer models, you must enable NVLink for GPU-to-GPU communication. Otherwise, data may be damaged due to unpredictable failures that are caused by large-scale data transmission over Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) links. If you do not understand the topology of the communication links that are used for AI training services, submit a ticket to obtain technical support.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn7e instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn7e-c16g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn7e-c16g1.8xlarge, ecs.gn7e-c16g1.16xlarge, and ecs.gn7e-c16g1.32xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn7i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.
Supported scenarios:
Concurrent AI inference tasks that require high-performance CPUs, memory, and GPUs, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and behavior identification
Compute-intensive graphics processing tasks that require high-performance 3D graphics virtualization capabilities, such as remote graphic design and cloud gaming
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA A10 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Support for acceleration features, such as RTX and TensorRT
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Provides up to 752 GiB of memory, which is much larger than the memory sizes of the gn6i instance family.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn7i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c16g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c32g1.8xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c32g1.16xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c32g1.32xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c48g1.12xlarge, ecs.gn7i-c56g1.14xlarge, ecs.gn7i-2x.8xlarge, ecs.gn7i-4x.8xlarge, ecs.gn7i-4x.16xlarge, ecs.gn7i-8x.32xlarge, and ecs.gn7i-8x.16xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn7s, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
To use the gn7s instance family, submit a ticket.
Introduction:
This instance family uses the latest Intel Ice Lake processors and NVIDIA A30 GPUs that are based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture. You can select instance types that comprise appropriate mixes of GPUs and vCPUs to meet your business requirements in AI scenarios.
This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and doubles the average bandwidths of VPCs, networks, and disks compared with instance families of the previous generation.
Supported scenarios: concurrent AI inference tasks that require high-performance CPUs, memory, and GPUs, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and behavior identification.
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA A30 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Support for the multi-instance GPU (MIG) feature and acceleration features (based on second-generation Tensor cores) to provide diversified business support
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.
Improves memory sizes significantly from instance families of the previous generation.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn7s instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn7s-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn7s-c16g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn7s-c32g1.8xlarge, ecs.gn7s-c32g1.16xlarge, ecs.gn7s-c32g1.32xlarge, ecs.gn7s-c48g1.12xlarge, and ecs.gn7s-c56g1.14xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn7, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications that require robust GPU computing capabilities, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn7-c12g1.3xlarge, ecs.gn7-c13g1.13xlarge, and ecs.gn7-c13g1.26xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn6i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
AI (deep learning and machine learning) inference for computer vision, speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and recommendation systems
Real-time rendering for cloud gaming
Real-time rendering for AR and VR applications
Graphics workstations or graphics-heavy computing
GPU-accelerated databases
High-performance computing
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Turing architecture
16 GB of memory (320 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
2,560 CUDA cores per GPU
Up to 320 Turing Tensor cores per GPU
Mixed-precision Tensor cores that support 65 FP16 TFLOPS, 130 INT8 TOPS, and 260 INT4 TOPS
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn6i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge, ecs.gn6i-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn6i-c16g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn6i-c24g1.6xlarge, ecs.gn6i-c40g1.10xlarge, ecs.gn6i-c24g1.12xlarge, and ecs.gn6i-c24g1.24xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn6e, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training and inference applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs that each have 32 GB of GPU memory and support NVLink.
Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Volta architecture
32 GB of HBM2 memory (900 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
5,120 CUDA cores per GPU
640 Tensor cores per GPU
Up to six NVLink bidirectional connections per GPU, each of which provides a bandwidth of 25 Gbit/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 Gbit/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300)
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn6e instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn6e-c12g1.3xlarge, ecs.gn6e-c12g1.6xlarge, ecs.gn6e-c12g1.12xlarge, and ecs.gn6e-c12g1.24xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn6v, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning applications, such as training and inference applications of AI algorithms used in image classification, autonomous vehicles, and speech recognition
Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, molecular dynamics, and environmental analytics
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs.
Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:
Innovative NVIDIA Volta architecture
16 GB of HBM2 memory (900 GB/s bandwidth) per GPU
5,120 CUDA cores per GPU
640 Tensor cores per GPU
Up to six NVLink bidirectional connections per GPU, each of which provides a bandwidth of 25 Gbit/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 Gbit/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300)
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn6v instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn6v-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn6v-c8g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn6v-c8g1.8xlarge, ecs.gn6v-c8g1.16xlarge, and ecs.gn6v-c10g1.20xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn5, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios:
Deep learning
Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, genomics, and environmental analytics
Server-side GPU compute workloads, such as high-performance computing, rendering, and multi-media encoding and decoding
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA P100 GPUs.
Offers multiple CPU-to-memory ratios.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
Storage:
Supports high-performance local Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSDs.
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn5 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn5-c4g1.xlarge, ecs.gn5-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn5-c4g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn5-c8g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn5-c28g1.7xlarge, ecs.gn5-c8g1.8xlarge, ecs.gn5-c28g1.14xlarge, and ecs.gn5-c8g1.14xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.
gn5i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
Supported scenarios: server-side GPU compute workloads, such as deep learning inference and multi-media encoding and decoding.
Compute:
Uses NVIDIA P4 GPUs.
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
The gn5i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.gn5i-c2g1.large, ecs.gn5i-c4g1.xlarge, ecs.gn5i-c8g1.2xlarge, ecs.gn5i-c16g1.4xlarge, ecs.gn5i-c16g1.8xlarge, and ecs.gn5i-c28g1.14xlarge. Expand the following section to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see Instance type metrics.