Elastic Compute Service (ECS) Bare Metal Instance is suitable for scenarios in which applications that run in traditional non-virtualization environments are migrated to the cloud. ECS Bare Metal Instance can work seamlessly with other Alibaba Cloud services, such as storage, network, and database services, to allow you to build resources based on your business scenarios. This topic describes the benefits and features of ECS Bare Metal Instance families and lists the instance types of each instance family.
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.
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.
Estimated instance costs. You can calculate the price of instances that uses different billing methods in the Price Calculator.
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.
Recommended Bare Metal Iinstance families:
Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the recommended instance families.)
Introduction
ECS Bare Metal Instance is an innovative computing service developed by Alibaba Cloud based on state-of-the-art virtualization 2.0 technology. Virtualization 2.0 endows ECS bare metal instances with the elasticity of virtual machines (ECS instances), the performance and features of physical machines, and full support for nested virtualization.
By default, the secondary virtualization capability is enabled for ECS bare metal instances.
ECS bare metal instances combine the strengths of both physical machines and ECS instances to deliver powerful and robust computing capabilities. Using virtualization 2.0, ECS Bare Metal Instance provides your business applications with direct access to the processor and memory resources of the underlying servers without virtualization overheads. ECS Bare Metal Instance retains the hardware feature sets (such as Intel VT-x) and resource isolation capabilities of physical machines, which is ideal for applications that need to run in non-virtualization environments on the cloud.
ECS Bare Metal Instance integrates features from both physical and virtual machines based on the proprietary chips, hypervisor system software, and a redefined server hardware architecture. ECS Bare Metal Instance can seamlessly connect with other Alibaba Cloud services for storage, networking, and database tasks and is fully compatible with ECS images. These properties allow you to build resources to suit your business requirements.
When you use ECS Bare Metal Instance, take note of the following items:
ECS bare metal instances do not support instance type changes.
When the physical machine that hosts an ECS bare metal instance fails, the instance fails over to a healthy physical machine. Data is retained in the data disks of the instance.
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.
Benefits
ECS Bare Metal Instance provides the following benefits based on technological innovations:
Exclusive computing resources
ECS Bare Metal Instance is a cloud-based elastic computing service that provides the same performance and resource isolation capabilities as physical machines. It can ensure the exclusive use of computing resources by tenants without virtualization overheads or performance loss. You can select instance types that support 80, 96, 104, 128, or 192 vCPUs.
Chip-level security
In addition to physical isolation, ECS Bare Metal Instance uses a chip-level trusted execution environment of Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) to ensure that encrypted data can be computed only in a secure and trusted environment. This chip-level hardware security protection provides security for your data in the cloud and allows you to control all data encryption and key protection processes. For more information, see Install SGX.
Compatibility with multiple private clouds
ECS Bare Metal Instance can address high-performance computing needs and help you construct hybrid clouds. Thanks to the flexibility, elasticity, and other strengths inherited from the mix of physical and virtual machines, ECS Bare Metal Instance can implement re-virtualization and allow local private clouds to seamlessly migrate to Alibaba Cloud without performance overheads arising from nested virtualization. This provides you a new method to move business to the cloud.
Support for heterogeneous instruction set processors
ECS Bare Metal Instance uses the virtualization 2.0 technology developed by Alibaba Cloud and supports instruction set processors such as Advanced RISC Machine (ARM).
Comparison of ECS bare metal instances, physical machines, and virtual machines
An ECS bare metal instance delivers better performance than a physical machine that has the same configurations. During the yearly Double 11 sales event, ECS bare metal instances deliver robust computing capabilities with millions of vCPUs to handle spikes in traffic.
The following table compares the features of ECS bare metal instances, physical machines, and virtual machines. In this table, Y means supported, N means not supported, and N/A means not applicable.
Feature type | Feature | ECS bare metal instance | Physical machine | Virtual machine |
Automated O&M | Delivery within minutes | Y | N | Y |
Compute | Zero performance loss | Y | Y | N |
Zero feature loss | Y | Y | N | |
Zero resource contention | Y | Y | N | |
Storage | Compatibility with ECS disks | Y | N | Y |
Boot from system disks | Y | N | Y | |
Quick reset of system disks | Y | N | Y | |
Use of ECS images | Y | N | Y | |
Cold migration between physical and virtual machines | Y | N | Y | |
No need to install operating systems | Y | N | Y | |
No need for local RAIDs, and better protection of data on disks | Y | N | Y | |
Network | Compatibility with virtual private clouds (VPCs) | Y | N | Y |
Compatibility with the classic network | Y | N | Y | |
No communication bottlenecks between physical and virtual machine clusters in VPCs | Y | N | Y | |
Management | Compatibility with existing ECS management systems | Y | N | Y |
Consistent user experience on features, such as Virtual Network Computing (VNC), with that on virtual machines | Y | N | Y | |
Out-of-band (OOB) network security | Y | N | N/A |
ebmg7se, storage-enhanced ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Delivers a maximum sequential read/write throughput of 64 Gbit/s and up to 1,000,000 IOPS per instance.
Supports Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) disks and the multi-attach feature to meet the requirements of core enterprise business. For more information, see NVMe disks and Multi-attach for cloud disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 12,000,000 pps.
Supported scenarios:
Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware
High-availability workloads that requires support for the multi-attach feature
I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized online transaction processing (OLTP) core databases or NoSQL databases
Search and real-time log analytics
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 | Maximum data disks | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.ebmg7se.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 32 | 12,000,000 | 2,400,000 | 16 | 30 | 1 | 32 | 1,000,000 | 64 |
ebmg7, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
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.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
The instance family is in invitational preview. To use this instance family, submit a ticket.
Features:
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.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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.
ebmc7, compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
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.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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
The instance family is in invitational preview. To use the instance family, submit a ticket.
Features:
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.
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.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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 |
ebmr7, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
The instance family is in invitational preview. To use the instance family, submit a ticket.
Features:
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.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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.
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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, memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
To use the ebmre6-6t instance family, submit a ticket.
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
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.
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.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
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.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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 on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments 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
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
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 6,000,000 pps.
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
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 |
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.
Features:
The ebmgn8is instance family is an 8th-generation GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal instance family provided by Alibaba Cloud in response to the recent development of AI-generated business. Each instance of this instance family is equipped with eight GPUs.
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 Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) to support the inference of various AI-generated content (AIGC) models and accommodate inference tasks for 70B or larger large language models (LLMs).
Training tasks: This instance family provides cost-effective computing capabilities and delivers the single-precision floating-point format (FP32) computing performance that is doubled compared with the computing performance 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.
This instance family 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, 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) peer-to-peer (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 3.9 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.
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.
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 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
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 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
Features:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
Compute:
Uses 2.9 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) 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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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.
Instance types
Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU memory | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues (Primary ENI/Secondary ENI) | 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 |
ebmgn7i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides ultra-high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 24,000,000 pps.
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
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 | 24GB * 4 | 64 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn7, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
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
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 | 40GB*8 | 30 | 18,000,000 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6ia, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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 up to 60 virtual Android devices and provide hardware-accelerated video transcoding.
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 only ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
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.
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 | 16GB * 2 | 32 | 24,000,000 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
Ampere® Altra® processors have specific requirements on 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
Features:
This instance family uses the SHENLONG architecture to provide flexible and powerful software-defined compute.
This instance family uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs that each has 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.
Support for up to six NVLink connections per GPU. Each NVLink connection provides a bandwidth of 25 GB/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300).
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
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
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 | 32GB * 8 | 32 | 4,800,000 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6v, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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.
Support for up to six NVLink connections per GPU. Each NVLink connection provides a bandwidth of 25 GB/s in each direction for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s (6 × 25 × 2 = 300).
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
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
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 | 16GB * 8 | 30 | 4,500,000 | 8 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmgn6i, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
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
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
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 games
Real-time rendering for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications
Graphics workstations or graphics-heavy computing
GPU-accelerated databases
High-performance computing
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 | 16GB * 4 | 30 | 4,500,000 | 8 | 32 | 10 | 1 |
ebmg5s, network-enhanced general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
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
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 |
ebmg5, general-purpose ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,000,000 pps.
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
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 |
ebmc5s, network-enhanced compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
Supported scenarios:
Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments 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
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 |
ebmr5s, network-enhanced memory-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family
Features:
This instance family provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.
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.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Supports only VPCs.
Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,500,000 pps.
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
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 |
Billing methods
ECS Bare Metal Instance supports pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods. For more information, see Overview of billing methods.