Checks whether the number of CPU cores for each Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance within your Alibaba Cloud account is greater than or equal to a specified value.

Scenarios

This rule can be used to check whether the number of CPU cores for each ECS instance meets your requirements for supporting the business. This helps you prevent business interruption that is caused by insufficient CPU cores of ECS instances.

Risk level

Default risk level: low.

You can change the risk level as required when you apply this rule.

Compliance evaluation logic

  • If the number of CPU cores for each ECS instance within your account is greater than or equal to a specified value, the evaluation result is compliant.
  • If the number of CPU cores for an ECS instance within your account is less than a specified value, the evaluation result is non-compliant. For more information about how to correct the non-compliant configuration, see Non-compliance remediation.

Rule details

Item Description
Rule name ecs-cpu-min-count-limit
Rule ID ecs-cpu-min-count-limit
Tag ECS and CPU
Automatic remediation Not supported
Trigger type Configuration change
Supported resource type ECS instance
Input parameter cpuCount

Non-compliance remediation

For more information about how to upgrade an ECS instance for more CPU cores, see Overview of instance upgrade and downgrade.