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Elastic Compute Service:General-purpose instance families (g series)

Last Updated:Jan 19, 2026

General-purpose instance families (g series) provide a processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4. These instance families are suitable for scenarios such as general-purpose Internet applications, databases, web servers, Java application services, game services, and search and promotion.

Note

X86

ARM

Not recommended (If the following instance types are sold out, use the preceding ones)

Intel processor

AMD processor

Yitian and others

Yitian 710 processor

Ampere®Altra®

g9ae general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: g9ae instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with the latest AMD EPYC Turin processors that use physical cores. These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: Big data analytics (such as Spark, Flink, and ES), search, recommendation, and advertising (ps-worker), core transaction systems, audio and video transcoding, AI training and inference, and general-purpose enterprise applications (Java).

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: AMD EPYC Turin processor with a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. These processors use physical cores to provide stable computing performance.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • You can adjust the baseline network bandwidth.

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security:

The g9ae instance familyincludes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g9ae.large

2

8

2.5/Up to 25

Up to 1.5 million

Up to 0.5 million

2

3

6

6

Up to 200,000

2.5/Up to 20

ecs.g9ae.xlarge

4

16

4/Up to 25

Up to 1.6 million

Up to 0.5 million

4

4

15

15

Up to 200,000

3/Up to 20

ecs.g9ae.2xlarge

8

32

6/Up to 25

Up to 2.5 million

Up to 0.5 million

8

4

15

15

Up to 200,000

4/Up to 20

ecs.g9ae.4xlarge

16

64

10/Up to 25

Up to 3.2 million

Up to 0.5 million

16

8

30

30

Up to 200,000

5.5/Up to 20

ecs.g9ae.8xlarge

32

128

16/Up to 25

Up to 5 million

Up to 1 million

32

8

30

30

Up to 200,000

8/Up to 20

ecs.g9ae.12xlarge

48

192

25 / None

7.5 million

1.5 million

48

8

30

30

150,000

13/N/A

ecs.g9ae.16xlarge

64

256

32 or None

10 million

2 million

64

8

30

30

200,000

16 / None

ecs.g9ae.24xlarge

96

384

50 / None

15 million

3 million

64

15

30

30

300,000

25/N/A

ecs.g9ae.32xlarge

128

512

64/N/A

20 million

4 million

64

15

30

30

400,000

32 or None

ecs.g9ae.48xlarge

192

768

100 or Unlimited

30 million

6 million

64

15

50

50

600,000

50 / None

g9a general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: g9a instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with the latest AMD EPYC Turin processors. These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: Large and medium-sized database systems, game servers, financial quantization, blockchain, web and application servers, and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: AMD EPYC Turin processor with a turbo frequency of up to 4.1 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature.

The g9a instance family includes the following instance types and metrics.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Cloud Disk IOPS Basics

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g9a.large

2

8

2.5/Up to 15

Up to 1.2 million

Up to 0.5 million

2

3

6

6

Up to 110,000

2/Up to 15

ecs.g9a.xlarge

4

16

4/Up to 15

Up to 1.4 million

Up to 0.5 million

4

4

15

15

Up to 110,000

3/Up to 15

ecs.g9a.2xlarge

8

32

6/Up to 15

Up to 2 million

Up to 0.5 million

8

4

15

15

Up to 110,000

4/Up to 15

ecs.g9a.4xlarge

16

64

12/Up to 25

Up to 3 million

Up to 0.5 million

16

8

30

30

Up to 110,000

5/Up to 15

ecs.g9a.8xlarge

32

128

16/Up to 32

Up to 4 million

Up to 0.8 million

32

8

30

30

Up to 110,000

8/Up to 15

ecs.g9a.16xlarge

64

256

32/None

7.5 million

1.5 million

64

8

30

30

120,000

16 or None

ecs.g9a.24xlarge

96

384

48/N/A

10 million

2.2 million

64

15

30

30

200,000

24 / None

ecs.g9a.32xlarge

128

512

64 / None

15 million

3 million

64

15

30

30

250,000

32/None

ecs.g9a.48xlarge

192

768

96 or None

20 million

4.5 million

64

15

50

50

400,000

48 / None

g9i general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: g9i instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with Intel® Xeon® 6 processors that feature P-cores (performance cores). These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, search and promotion applications, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, and trusted and secure computing scenarios.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: Intel® Xeon® Granite Rapids with a clock speed of 3.2 GHz, an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, and a single-core maximum turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.

      Note

      The system may display different frequencies for this instance. The all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz is stable and guaranteed. The single-core maximum turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz is a burst performance. The burst capability depends on the overall CPU load of the physical machine and is not covered by the Service-Level Agreement (SLA).

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

    • These are I/O optimized instances.

    • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

    • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information, see Overview of Elastic Block Storage.

    • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

g9i includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table:

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g9i.large

2

8

2.5/Up to 15

1 million

Up to 0.5 million

2

3

6

6

25,000/Up to 200,000

2/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.xlarge

4

16

4/Up to 15

1.2 million

Up to 0.5 million

4

4

15

15

50,000/Up to 200,000

2.5/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.2xlarge

8

32

6/Up to 15

1.6 million

Up to 0.5 million

8

4

15

15

60,000/Up to 200,000

4/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.3xlarge

12

48

10/Up to 15

2.4 million

Up to 0.5 million

12

8

15

15

80,000/Up to 200,000

5/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.4xlarge

16

64

12/Up to 25

3 million

0.5 million

16

8

30

30

100,000/Up to 200,000

6/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.6xlarge

24

96

15/Up to 25

4.5 million

0.6 million

24

8

30

30

120,000/Up to 200,000

7.5/Up to 10

ecs.g9i.8xlarge

32

128

20/Up to 32

6 million

0.8 million

32

8

30

30

200,000/Up to 300,000

10/Up to 12

ecs.g9i.12xlarge

48

192

25/Up to 32

9 million

1.6 million

48

8

30

30

240,000/Up to 320,000

12/Up to 15

ecs.g9i.16xlarge

64

256

28/Up to 36

12 million

2 million

64

8

30

30

300,000/Up to 400,000

16/Up to 24

ecs.g9i.24xlarge

96

384

32/Up to 48

18 million

3 million

64

15

30

30

350,000/Up to 600,000

20/Up to 28

ecs.g9i.32xlarge

128

512

36/Up to 50

20 million

4 million

64

15

30

30

400,000/Up to 650,000

24/Up to 28

ecs.g9i.48xlarge

192

768

64/N/A

24 million

6 million

64

15

50

50

500,000/Up to 800,000

32 or None

g8a general-purpose instance family

  • Family introduction: This instance family is built on the new Alibaba Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture and provides stable computing power, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: General-purpose enterprise applications (Java), memory-optimized or relational database applications, big data applications (such as Kafka and Elasticsearch), web applications, AI training and inference, and audio and video transcoding applications.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: AMD EPYC Genoa 9T24 processor with a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8a instance family includes the instance types and metric data listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g8a.large

2

8

1.5/12.5

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

3

6

6

20,000/110,000

1.5/10

ecs.g8a.xlarge

4

16

2.5/12.5

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

4

15

15

30,000/110,000

2/10

ecs.g8a.2xlarge

8

32

4/12.5

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

15

45,000/110,000

2.5/10

ecs.g8a.4xlarge

16

64

7/12.5

2 million

0.3 million

16

8

30

30

60,000/110,000

3.5/10

ecs.g8a.8xlarge

32

128

10/25

3 million

0.6 million

32

8

30

30

80,000/110,000

5/10

ecs.g8a.12xlarge

48

192

16/25

4.5 million

0.75 million

48

8

30

30

120,000 or None

8/10

ecs.g8a.16xlarge

64

256

20/25

6 million

1 million

64

8

30

30

160,000/Unlimited

10/None

ecs.g8a.24xlarge

96

384

32/None

9 million

1.5 million

64

15

30

30

240,000 or Unlimited

16/None

ecs.g8a.32xlarge

128

512

40 or None

12 million

2 million

64

15

30

30

320,000/Unlimited

20/None

ecs.g8a.48xlarge

192

768

64 or None

18 million

3 million

64

15

50

50

500,000/None

32/None

Note
  • The packet forwarding rate (PPS) varies significantly based on the business scenario. Therefore, perform stress testing on your services to understand the performance of instances and select an appropriate instance type.

  • For ecs.g8a.large and ecs.g8a.xlarge instances, you must enable jumbo frames to achieve the burst network bandwidth of 12.5 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

g8ae performance-enhanced general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: g8ae instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: Artificial intelligence (AI) scenarios (such as deep learning, training, and AI inference), high-performance computing (HPC) and other high-performance scientific computing scenarios, large and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, large online game servers, and other general-purpose enterprise applications that have high performance requirements.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: AMD EPYC™ Genoa processor with a clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.75 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8ae instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

vTPM support

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g8ae.large

2

8

3/Up to 15

1 million

Yes

Up to 0.3 million

2

3

6

6

30,000/Up to 200,000

2/Up to 10

ecs.g8ae.xlarge

4

16

4/Up to 15

1.2 million

Yes

Up to 0.3 million

4

4

15

15

50,000/Up to 200,000

2.5/Up to 10

ecs.g8ae.2xlarge

8

32

6/Up to 15

1.6 million

Yes

Up to 0.3 million

8

4

15

15

60,000/Up to 200,000

3/Up to 10

ecs.g8ae.4xlarge

16

64

12/Up to 25

3 million

Yes

0.5 million

16

8

30

30

100,000/Up to 200,000

6/Up to 10

ecs.g8ae.8xlarge

32

128

20/Up to 25

6 million

Yes

1 million

32

8

30

30

200,000 or Unlimited

10 or None

ecs.g8ae.16xlarge

64

256

32/None

9 million

Yes

1.5 million

64

8

30

30

250,000 or Unlimited

16/None

ecs.g8ae.32xlarge

128

512

64 / None

18 million

Yes

3 million

64

15

30

30

500,000/None

32 / None

Note

For ecs.g8ae.large and ecs.g8ae.xlarge instances, you must enable jumbo frames to achieve the burst bandwidth of 15 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

g8i general-purpose instance family

  • Family introduction: Built on the new Alibaba Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture, this family provides stable computing power, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, search and promotion applications, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, and trusted and secure computing scenarios.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids with a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

      Note

      When you purchase an instance of this family, the system randomly assigns one of the preceding processors. You cannot manually select a processor.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security:

The g8i instance family includes the instance types and metrics that are listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g8i.large

2

8

2.5/Up to 15

1 million

Up to 0.3 million

2

3

6

6

25,000/Up to 200,000

2/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.xlarge

4

16

4/Up to 15

1.2 million

Up to 0.3 million

4

4

15

15

50,000/Up to 200,000

2.5/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.2xlarge

8

32

6/Up to 15

1.6 million

Up to 0.3 million

8

4

15

15

60,000/Up to 200,000

4/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.3xlarge

12

48

10/Up to 15

2.4 million

Up to 0.3 million

12

8

15

15

80,000/Up to 200,000

5/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.4xlarge

16

64

12/Up to 25

3 million

0.35 million

16

8

30

30

100,000/Up to 200,000

6/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.6xlarge

24

96

15/Up to 25

4.5 million

0.5 million

24

8

30

30

120,000/Up to 200,000

7.5/Up to 10

ecs.g8i.8xlarge

32

128

20/Up to 25

6 million

0.8 million

32

8

30

30

200,000/Unlimited

10/None

ecs.g8i.12xlarge

48

192

25/N/A

9 million

1 million

48

8

30

30

300,000/No limit

12/N/A

ecs.g8i.16xlarge

64

256

32/None

12 million

1.6 million

64

8

30

30

360,000 / None

20 / None

ecs.g8i.24xlarge

96

384

50/none

18 million

2 million

64

15

30

30

500,000/Unlimited

24 / None

ecs.g8i.48xlarge

192

1024

100/None

30 million

4 million

64

15

50

50

1,000,000 / Unlimited

48/None

g8ine network-enhanced general-purpose instance family

  • Family introduction: Powered by Alibaba Cloud's new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture, this family delivers stable computing power and a more powerful I/O engine.

  • Scenarios: Network-intensive scenarios that require excellent forwarding performance and a high number of connections. These instances are especially suitable for network access layer gateways and traffic and data forwarding or pre-processing middleware. They can be used as part of a cloud solution in scenarios such as large websites, e-commerce, and AI.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: Intel® Xeon® Emerald Rapids or Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids with a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • These are I/O optimized instances.

    • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

    • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information, see Overview of Elastic Block Storage.

    • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable.

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8ine instance family includes the instance types and metrics described in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

EBS Multi-queue

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g8ine.large

2

8

4/Up to 24

0.6 million

2

3

10

10

1

20,000/Up to 80,000

2/Up to 8

ecs.g8ine.xlarge

4

16

7/Up to 28

1.2 million

4

4

15

15

1

40,000/Up to 80,000

2.5/Up to 8

ecs.g8ine.2xlarge

8

32

12/Up to 35

2 million

8

6

15

15

2

50,000/Up to 80,000

4/Up to 8

ecs.g8ine.4xlarge

16

64

23/Up to 44

3.5 million

16

8

30

30

2

80,000/Up to 100,000

6/Up to 10

ecs.g8ine.8xlarge

32

128

44 / None

7 million

32

8

30

30

4

100,000 / Unlimited

10 or None

g8y, general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: g8y instances are equipped with Yitian 710, a proprietary ARM-based CPU developed by Alibaba Cloud. Built on the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture, g8y instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

  • Scenarios: Containers, microservices, web and application servers, video encoding and decoding, high-performance computing, and CPU-based machine learning.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.75 GHz Yitian 710 processor that provides stable computing performance.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8y instance family includes the instance types and metrics that are described in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Maximum number of attached data disks

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g8y.small

1

4

1/10

0.5 million

Up to 0.25 million

1

2

3

3

5

10,000/Up to 110,000

1/Up to 10

ecs.g8y.large

2

8

2/10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

3

6

6

8

20,000/Up to 110,000

1.5/Up to 10

ecs.g8y.xlarge

4

16

3/10

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

4

15

15

8

40,000/Up to 110,000

2/Up to 10

ecs.g8y.2xlarge

8

32

5/10

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

15

16

50,000/Up to 110,000

3/Up to 10

ecs.g8y.4xlarge

16

64

10/25

3 million

0.4 million

16

8

30

30

16

80,000/Up to 110,000

5/Up to 10

ecs.g8y.8xlarge

32

128

16/25

5 million

0.75 million

32

8

30

30

16

125,000

10

ecs.g8y.16xlarge

64

256

32 / None

10 million

1.5 million

64

8

30

30

32

250,000

16

ecs.g8y.32xlarge

128

512

64 / None

20 million

3 million

64

15

30

30

32

500,000

32

Note

To use ecs.g8y.32xlarge, you must submit a ticket to request access.

g7a general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g7a instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

  • Scenarios: Video encoding and decoding, high packet forwarding rate scenarios, web and application servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, game servers, test and development (such as DevOps), and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC MILAN processor with a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g7a instance familyincludes the following instance types and metrics.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g7a.large

2

8

1/Up to 10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

3

6

6

12,500/Up to 110,000

1/Up to 6

ecs.g7a.xlarge

4

16

1.5/Up to 10

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

4

15

15

20,000/Up to 110,000

1.5/Up to 6

ecs.g7a.2xlarge

8

32

2.5/Up to 10

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

15

30,000/Up to 110,000

2/Up to 6

ecs.g7a.4xlarge

16

64

7/Up to 12.5

2 million

0.3 million

8

8

30

30

60,000/Up to 110,000

3.7/Up to 10.5

ecs.g7a.8xlarge

32

128

8/Up to 10

3 million

0.6 million

16

7

30

30

75,000/Up to 110,000

4.1/Up to 11

ecs.g7a.16xlarge

64

256

16 or None

6 million

1 million

32

8

30

30

150,000/Unlimited

8.2/N/A

ecs.g7a-nps1.16xlarge

64

256

16 or None

6 million

1 million

32

8

30

30

150,000/Unlimited

8.2/None

ecs.g7a.32xlarge

128

512

32 or None

12 million

2 million

32

15

30

30

300,000/Unlimited

16.4/N/A

Note

The kernels of the Ubuntu 16 and Debian 9 operating systems do not support AMD EPYC MILAN processors. Therefore, do not use Ubuntu 16 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this family. Otherwise, the instances fail to start.

g7, general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g7 instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

  • Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios (such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding), game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, enterprise applications of various types and sizes, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, trusted and secure computing scenarios, and blockchain scenarios.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: Third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processor with a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

  • Security:

The g7 instance family includes the instance types and performance metrics that are listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

vTPM support

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Maximum number of attached data disks

Baseline/Burst disk IOPS

Baseline/Burst disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g7.large

2

8

2/Up to 12.5

1.1 million

Yes

Up to 0.5 million

2

3

6

6

8

20,000/Up to 160,000

1.5/Up to 10

ecs.g7.xlarge

4

16

3/Up to 12.5

1.1 million

Yes

Up to 0.5 million

4

4

15

15

8

40,000/Up to 160,000

2/Up to 10

ecs.g7.2xlarge

8

32

5/Up to 15

1.6 million

Yes

Up to 0.5 million

8

4

15

15

16

50,000/Up to 160,000

3/Up to 10

ecs.g7.3xlarge

12

48

8/Up to 15

2.4 million

Yes

Up to 0.5 million

8

8

15

15

16

70,000/Up to 160,000

4/Up to 10

ecs.g7.4xlarge

16

64

10/Up to 25

3 million

Yes

0.5 million

8

8

30

30

16

80,000/Up to 160,000

5/Up to 10

ecs.g7.6xlarge

24

96

12/Up to 25

4.5 million

Yes

0.55 million

12

8

30

30

16

110,000/Up to 160,000

6/10

ecs.g7.8xlarge

32

128

16/Up to 32

6 million

Yes

0.6 million

16

8

30

30

24

160,000 / No limit

10 or None

ecs.g7.16xlarge

64

256

32/None

12 million

Yes

1.2 million

32

8

30

30

32

360,000 or None

16/None

ecs.g7.32xlarge

128

512

64/None

24 million

Yes

2.4 million

32

15

30

30

32

600,000 or unlimited

32/None

g6r general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g6r instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

  • Scenarios: Containers, microservices, test and development (such as DevOps), web and application servers, game servers, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.8 GHz Ampere® Altra® processor that provides stable computing performance.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6r instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline disk IOPS

Baseline disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g6r.large

2

8

1/10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

3

6

1

12,500

1

ecs.g6r.xlarge

4

16

1.5/10

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

4

15

1

20,000

1.5

ecs.g6r.2xlarge

8

32

2.5/10

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

1

30,000

2

ecs.g6r.4xlarge

16

64

5/10

2 million

0.3 million

8

8

30

1

60,000

3

ecs.g6r.8xlarge

32

128

8/10

3 million

0.6 million

16

7

30

1

75,000

4

ecs.g6r.16xlarge

64

256

16 / None

6 million

0.9 million

32

8

30

1

150,000

8

g6a general-purpose instance family

  • Family introduction: Built on the SHENLONG architecture, this family offloads numerous virtualization features to dedicated hardware, which reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance.

  • Scenarios:

    • Video encoding and decoding.

    • Scenarios with high packet forwarding rates.

    • Web and application servers.

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

    • Game servers.

    • Test and development, such as DevOps.

    • Other general-purpose enterprise applications.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.6 GHz AMD EPYC ROME processor with a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

    • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6a instance family includes the instance types and metric data shown in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline disk IOPS

Baseline disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g6a.large

2

8

1/10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

2

6

1

12,500

1

ecs.g6a.xlarge

4

16

1.5/10

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

3

15

1

20,000

1.5

ecs.g6a.2xlarge

8

32

2.5/10

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

1

30,000

2

ecs.g6a.4xlarge

16

64

5/10

2 million

0.3 million

8

8

30

1

60,000

3.1

ecs.g6a.8xlarge

32

128

8/10

3 million

0.6 million

16

7

30

1

75,000

4.1

ecs.g6a.16xlarge

64

256

16 or None

6 million

1 million

32

8

30

1

150,000

8.2

ecs.g6a.32xlarge

128

512

32 or None

12 million

2 million

32

15

30

1

300,000

16.4

g6e performance-enhanced general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g6e instances offload many virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

  • Scenarios:

    • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

    • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

    • Web and application servers.

    • Game servers.

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

    • Data analytics and computing.

    • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of approximately 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor with a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

      Note

      Network 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 network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6e instance family includes the instance types and metrics described in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline disk IOPS

Baseline disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g6e.large

2

8

1.2/Up to 10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

3

6

1

20,000

1

ecs.g6e.xlarge

4

16

2/Up to 10

1 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

4

15

1

40,000

1.5

ecs.g6e.2xlarge

8

32

3/Up to 10

1.6 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

15

1

50,000

2

ecs.g6e.4xlarge

16

64

6/Up to 10

3 million

0.3 million

8

8

30

1

80,000

3

ecs.g6e.8xlarge

32

128

10 / None

6 million

0.6 million

16

8

30

1

150,000

5

ecs.g6e.13xlarge

52

192

16 / None

9 million

1 million

32

7

30

1

240,000

8

ecs.g6e.26xlarge

104

384

32 or None

24 million

1.8 million

32

15

30

1

480,000

16

Note
  • Network capabilities represent the maximum performance in single-item tests. For example, when testing network bandwidth, stress tests are not simultaneously performed on the packet forwarding rate or other metrics.

  • To use ecs.g6e.26xlarge, you must submit a ticket to request access.

g6 general-purpose instance family

  • Introduction: Built on the SHENLONG architecture, g6 instances offload many virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance.

  • Scenarios:

    • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

    • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

    • Web and application servers.

    • Game servers.

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

    • Data analytics and computing.

    • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor with a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • These are I/O optimized instances.

    • Supported disk types: enterprise SSD, ESSD AutoPL disk, regional Enterprise SSD (ESSD), standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

      Note

      The maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.

    • The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

      Note

      Network 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 network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6 instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline/Burst network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Connections

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Baseline disk IOPS

Baseline disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.g6.large

2

8

1/Up to 3

0.3 million

Up to 0.25 million

2

2

6

1

10,000

1

ecs.g6.xlarge

4

16

1.5/Up to 5

0.5 million

Up to 0.25 million

4

3

10

1

20,000

1.5

ecs.g6.2xlarge

8

32

2.5/Up to 8

0.8 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

4

10

1

25,000

2

ecs.g6.3xlarge

12

48

4/Up to 10

0.9 million

Up to 0.25 million

8

6

10

1

30,000

2.5

ecs.g6.4xlarge

16

64

5/Up to 10

1 million

0.3 million

8

8

20

1

40,000

3

ecs.g6.6xlarge

24

96

7.5/Up to 10

1.5 million

0.45 million

12

8

20

1

50,000

4

ecs.g6.8xlarge

32

128

10 or None

2 million

0.6 million

16

8

20

1

60,000

5

ecs.g6.13xlarge

52

192

12.5 or None

3 million

0.9 million

32

7

20

1

100,000

8

ecs.g6.26xlarge

104

384

25 / None

6 million

1.8 million

32

15

20

1

200,000

16

g5 general-purpose instance family

  • Scenarios:

    • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

    • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

    • Data analytics and computing.

    • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor that provides stable computing performance.

      Note

      Instances of this family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use g6, g6e, or g7 instances.

  • Storage:

    • These are I/O optimized instances.

    • Supported disk types: enterprise SSD, ESSD AutoPL disk, standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

      Note

      The 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:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

      Note

      Network 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 network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g5 instance family includes the following instance types and metrics.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packets per second (PPS)

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

ecs.g5.large

2

8

1

0.3 million

2

2

6

1

ecs.g5.xlarge

4

16

1.5

0.5 million

2

3

10

1

ecs.g5.2xlarge

8

32

2.5

0.8 million

4

4

10

1

ecs.g5.3xlarge

12

48

4

0.9 million

4

6

10

1

ecs.g5.4xlarge

16

64

5

1 million

4

8

20

1

ecs.g5.6xlarge

24

96

7.5

1.5 million

6

8

20

1

ecs.g5.8xlarge

32

128

10

2 million

8

8

20

1

ecs.g5.16xlarge

64

256

20

4 million

16

8

20

1

sn2ne network-enhanced general-purpose instance family

  • Scenarios:

    • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

    • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

    • Data analytics and computing.

    • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

  • Compute:

    • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor that provides stable computing performance.

      Note

      Instances of this family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use g6, g6e, or g7 instances.

  • Storage:

  • Network:

    • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The sn2ne instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Baseline network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (PPS)

Multi-queue

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

ecs.sn2ne.large

2

8

1

0.3 million

2

2

6

1

ecs.sn2ne.xlarge

4

16

1.5

0.5 million

2

3

10

1

ecs.sn2ne.2xlarge

8

32

2

1 million

4

4

10

1

ecs.sn2ne.3xlarge

12

48

2.5

1.3 million

4

6

10

1

ecs.sn2ne.4xlarge

16

64

3

1.6 million

4

8

20

1

ecs.sn2ne.6xlarge

24

96

4.5

2 million

6

8

20

1

ecs.sn2ne.8xlarge

32

128

6

2.5 million

8

8

20

1

ecs.sn2ne.14xlarge

56

224

10

4.5 million

14

8

20

1