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Elastic Compute Service:Memory-optimized instance families (r series)

Last Updated:Dec 16, 2024

Most r series memory-optimized instance families offer a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8. The r series memory-optimized instance families are suitable for in-memory databases, data analytics and mining, distributed in-memory caches such as Redis, big data applications such as Kafka and Elasticsearch, and memory-intensive, general-purpose, and enterprise-level applications such as Java.

Background information

Before you read further in this topic, you must be familiar with the following information:

After you determine an instance type for your use case, you may need to learn about the following information:

  • Regions in which the instance type is available for purchase. Instance types that are available for purchase vary based on the region. You can go to the Instance Types Available for Each Region page to view the instance types available for purchase in each region. Alternatively, you can call the DescribeRegions and DescribeZones operations to query the available regions and the zones in a specific region.

  • Estimated instance costs. You can calculate the price of instances that uses different billing methods in the Price Calculator. You can also call the DescribePrice operation to query information about the most recent prices of ECS resources.

  • Instructions for purchasing an instance. You can go to the ECS instance buy page to place a purchase order for instances.

You may be concerned about the following information:

  • Retired instance families. If you cannot find an instance type in this topic, the instance type may be in a retired instance family. For information about retired instance families, see Retired instance families.

  • Supported instance type changes. Before you change the instance type of an instance, check whether the instance type can be changed and identify compatible instance types. For more information, see Instance types and families that support instance type changes.

x86

Arm

Not recommended instance families (If the following instance families are sold out, we recommend that you use the instance families in the preceding columns.)

Intel processor-powered instance families

AMD processor-powered instance families

YiTian processor-powered instance families

r8y, memory-optimized instance family

r8a, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Memory-intensive, general-purpose, enterprise-level applications such as Java

    • Various in-memory database applications such as Redis and Memcache

    • Big data applications such as Kafka and Elasticsearch

    • Audio and video transcoding applications

  • Compute:

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

    • Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Supports Elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Security: Supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.

The r8a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8a.large, ecs.r8a.xlarge, ecs.r8a.2xlarge, ecs.r8a.4xlarge, ecs.r8a.8xlarge, ecs.r8a.12xlarge, ecs.r8a.16xlarge, ecs.r8a.24xlarge, ecs.r8a.32xlarge, and ecs.r8a.48xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r8a.large

2

16

1.5/burstable up to 12.5

900,000

Up to 250,000

2

3

6

6

25,000/burstable up to 110,000

1.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.xlarge

4

32

2.5/burstable up to 12.5

1,000,000

Up to 250,000

4

4

6

6

30,000/burstable up to 110,000

2/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.2xlarge

8

64

4/burstable up to 12.5

1,600,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

15

15

45,000/burstable up to 110,000

2.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.4xlarge

16

128

7/burstable up to 12.5

2,000,000

300,000

16

8

30

30

60,000/burstable up to 110,000

3.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.8xlarge

32

256

10/burstable up to 25

3,000,000

600,000

32

8

30

30

80,000/burstable up to 110,000

5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.12xlarge

48

384

16/25

4,500,000

750,000

48

8

30

30

120,000/none

8/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8a.16xlarge

64

512

20/25

6,000,000

1,000,000

64

8

30

30

160,000/none

10/none

ecs.r8a.24xlarge

96

768

32/none

9,000,000

1,500,000

64

15

30

30

240,000/none

16/none

ecs.r8a.32xlarge

128

1024

40/none

12,000,000

2,000,000

64

15

30

30

320,000/none

20/none

ecs.r8a.48xlarge

192

1536

64/none

18,000,000

3,000,000

64

15

30

30

500,000/none

32/none

Note
  • For ecs.r8a.large and ecs.r8a.xlarge instances, you must enable the Jumbo Frames feature before the instances can burst their network bandwidths to 12.5 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

  • To use the ecs.r8a.48xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.

r8i, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Data analytics and mining

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

    • Distributed in-memory cache, such as Redis

    • Websites and application servers

    • Servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games

  • Compute:

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Security:

The r8i instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8i.large, ecs.r8i.xlarge, ecs.r8i.2xlarge, ecs.r8i.3xlarge, ecs.r8i.4xlarge, ecs.r8i.6xlarge, ecs.r8i.8xlarge, ecs.r8i.12xlarge, ecs.r8i.16xlarge, and ecs.r8i.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r8i.large

2

16

2.5/burstable up to 15

1,000,000

Up to 300,000

2

3

6

6

25,000/burstable up to 200,000

2/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.xlarge

4

32

4/burstable up to 15

1,200,000

Up to 300,000

4

4

15

15

50,000/burstable up to 200,000

2.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.2xlarge

8

64

6/burstable up to 15

1,600,000

Up to 300,000

8

4

15

15

60,000/burstable up to 200,000

4/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.3xlarge

12

96

10/burstable up to 15

2,400,000

Up to 300,000

12

8

15

15

80,000/burstable up to 200,000

5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.4xlarge

16

128

12/burstable up to 25

3,000,000

350,000

16

8

30

30

100,000/burstable up to 200,000

6/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.6xlarge

24

192

15/burstable up to 25

4,500,000

500,000

24

8

30

30

120,000/burstable up to 200,000

7.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8i.8xlarge

32

256

20/burstable up to 25

6,000,000

800,000

32

8

30

30

200,000/none

10/none

ecs.r8i.12xlarge

48

384

25/none

9,000,000

1,000,000

48

8

30

30

300,000/none

12/none

ecs.r8i.16xlarge

64

512

32/none

12,000,000

1,600,000

64

8

30

30

360,000/none

20/none

ecs.r8i.32xlarge

128

1024

64/none

24,000,000

3,000,000

64

15

30

30

700,000/none

40/none

Note

To use the ecs.r8i.16xlarge and ecs.r8i.32xlarge instance types, submit a ticket.

r8ae, enhanced-performance memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • AI scenarios, such as deep learning and training, and AI inference

    • High-performance scientific computing scenarios such as high-performance computing (HPC)

    • Large and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters

    • Servers of MMO games

    • Other general-purpose enterprise-level applications that have high performance requirements

  • Compute:

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Security: Supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing capabilities.

The r8ae instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8ae.large, ecs.r8ae.xlarge, ecs.r8ae.2xlarge, ecs.r8ae.4xlarge, and ecs.r8ae.8xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Support for vTPM

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r8ae.large

2

16

3/burstable up to 15

1,000,000

Yes

Up to 300,000

2

3

6

6

30,000/burstable up to 200,000

2/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8ae.xlarge

4

32

4/burstable up to 15

1,200,000

Yes

Up to 300,000

4

4

15

15

50,000/burstable up to 200,000

2.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8ae.2xlarge

8

64

6/burstable up to 15

1,600,000

Yes

Up to 300,000

8

4

15

15

60,000/burstable up to 200,000

3/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8ae.4xlarge

16

128

12/burstable up to 25

3,000,000

Yes

500,000

16

8

30

30

100,000/burstable up to 200,000

6/burstable up to 10

ecs.r8ae.8xlarge

32

256

20/burstable up to 25

6,000,000

Yes

1,000,000

32

8

30

30

200,000/none

10/none

Note

For ecs.r8ae.large and ecs.r8ae.xlarge instances, you must enable the Jumbo Frames feature before the instances can burst their network bandwidths to 15 Gbit/s. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

r8y, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses in-house Arm-based YiTian 710 processors and the fourth-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.

  • Supported scenarios: scenarios such as containers, microservices, websites and application servers, video encoding and decoding, high-performance computing, and CPU-based machine learning.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.75 GHz YiTian 710 processors to provide consistent computing performance.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Supports ERIs. For information about how to use ERIs, see Configure eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.

    • Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The r8y instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r8y.small, ecs.r8y.large, ecs.r8y.xlarge, ecs.r8y.2xlarge, ecs.r8y.4xlarge, ecs.r8y.8xlarge, ecs.r8y.16xlarge, and ecs.r8y.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

ERIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Maximum attached data disks

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r8y.small

1

8

1/10

500,000

Up to 250,000

1

2

0

3

3

5

10,000/burstable up to 110,000

1/burstable up to 6

ecs.r8y.large

2

16

2/10

900,000

Up to 250,000

2

3

1

6

6

8

20,000/burstable up to 110,000

1.5/burstable up to 6

ecs.r8y.xlarge

4

32

3/10

1,000,000

Up to 250,000

4

4

1

15

15

8

40,000/burstable up to 110,000

2/burstable up to 6

ecs.r8y.2xlarge

8

64

5/10

1,600,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

1

15

15

16

50,000/burstable up to 110,000

3/burstable up to 6

ecs.r8y.4xlarge

16

128

10/25

3,000,000

400,000

25

8

1

30

30

16

80,000/burstable up to 110,000

5/burstable up to 6

ecs.r8y.8xlarge

32

256

16/none

5,000,000

750,000

32

8

1

30

30

16

125,000

8

ecs.r8y.16xlarge

64

512

32/none

10,000,000

1,500,000

32

8

1

30

30

32

250,000

16

ecs.r8y.32xlarge

128

1024

64/none

20,000,000

3,000,000

32

15

1

30

30

32

500,000

32

Note

To use the ecs.r8y.32xlarge instance type, submit a ticket.

r7a, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.

  • Compute:

  • Supported scenarios:

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

    • Blockchain applications

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The r7a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7a.large, ecs.r7a.xlarge, ecs.r7a.2xlarge, ecs.r7a.4xlarge, ecs.r7a.8xlarge, ecs.r7a-nps1.8xlarge, ecs.r7a.16xlarge, ecs.r7a-nps1.16xlarge, and ecs.r7a.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r7a.large

2

16

1/burstable up to 10

900,000

Up to 250,000

2

3

6

6

12,500/burstable up to 110,000

1/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a.xlarge

4

32

1.5/burstable up to 10

1,000,000

Up to 250,000

4

4

15

15

20,000/burstable up to 110,000

1.5/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a.2xlarge

8

64

2.5/burstable up to 10

1,600,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

15

15

30,000/burstable up to 110,000

2/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a.4xlarge

16

128

5/burstable up to 10

2,000,000

300,000

8

8

30

30

60,000/burstable up to 110,000

3/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a.8xlarge

32

256

8/burstable up to 10

3,000,000

600,000

16

7

30

30

75,000/burstable up to 110,000

4/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a-nps1.8xlarge

32

256

8/burstable up to 10

3,000,000

8/burstable up to 10

16

7

30

30

75,000/burstable up to 110,000

4/burstable up to 6

ecs.r7a.16xlarge

64

512

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

30

30

150,000/none

8/none

ecs.r7a-nps1.16xlarge

64

512

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

30

30

150,000/none

8/none

ecs.r7a.32xlarge

128

1024

32/none

12,000,000

2,000,000

32

15

30

30

300,000/none

16/none

Note

Ubuntu 16 and Debian 9 operating system kernels do not support AMD EPYCTM MILAN processors. Do not use Ubuntu 16 or Debian 9 images to create instances of this instance family. Instances of this instance family created from Ubuntu 16 or Debian 9 images cannot be started.

r7, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

    • Scenarios that require secure and trusted computing

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Ice Lake) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.

    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Security:

The r7 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r7.large, ecs.r7.xlarge, ecs.r7.2xlarge, ecs.r7.3xlarge, ecs.r7.4xlarge, ecs.r7.6xlarge, ecs.r7.8xlarge, ecs.r7.16xlarge, and ecs.r7.32xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Support for vTPM

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Maximum attached data disks

Disk baseline/burst IOPS

Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r7.large

2

16

2/burstable up to 12.5

1,100,000

Yes

Up to 500,000

2

3

6

6

8

20,000/burstable up to 160,000

1.5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r7.xlarge

4

32

3/burstable up to 12.5

1,100,000

Yes

Up to 500,000

4

4

15

15

8

40,000/burstable up to 160,000

2/burstable up to 10

ecs.r7.2xlarge

8

64

5/burstable up to 15

1,600,000

Yes

Up to 500,000

8

4

15

15

16

50,000/burstable up to 160,000

3/burstable up to 10

ecs.r7.3xlarge

12

96

8/burstable up to 15

2,400,000

Yes

Up to 500,000

8

8

15

15

16

70,000/burstable up to 160,000

4/burstable up to 10

ecs.r7.4xlarge

16

128

10/burstable up to 25

3,000,000

Yes

500,000

8

8

30

30

16

80,000/burstable up to 160,000

5/burstable up to 10

ecs.r7.6xlarge

24

192

12/burstable up to 25

4,500,000

Yes

550,000

12

8

30

30

16

110,000/160,000

6/10

ecs.r7.8xlarge

32

256

16/burstable up to 32

6,000,000

Yes

600,000

16

8

30

30

24

160,000/none

10/none

ecs.r7.16xlarge

64

512

32/none

12,000,000

Yes

1,200,000

32

8

30

30

32

360,000/none

20/none

ecs.r7.32xlarge

128

1024

64/none

24,000,000

Yes

2,400,000

32

15

30

30

32

600,000/none

32/none

r6a, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Supported scenarios: scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, video encoding and decoding, in-memory databases, enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters, and scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested.

  • Compute:

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The r6a instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6a.large, ecs.r6a.xlarge, ecs.r6a.2xlarge, ecs.r6a.4xlarge, ecs.r6a.8xlarge, and ecs.r6a.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline IOPS

Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r6a.large

2

16

1/10

900,000

Up to 250,000

2

2

6

1

12,500

1

ecs.r6a.xlarge

4

32

1.5/10

1,000,000

Up to 250,000

4

3

15

1

20,000

1.5

ecs.r6a.2xlarge

8

64

2.5/10

1,600,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

15

1

30,000

2

ecs.r6a.4xlarge

16

128

5/10

2,000,000

300,000

8

8

30

1

60,000

3.1

ecs.r6a.8xlarge

32

256

8/10

3,000,000

600,000

16

7

30

1

75,000

4.1

ecs.r6a.16xlarge

64

512

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

32

8

30

1

150,000

8.2

r6e, enhanced-performance memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. This instance family utilizes fast path acceleration on chips to improve storage performance, network performance, and computing stability by an order of magnitude.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.

    • Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

      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 r6e instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6e.large, ecs.r6e.xlarge, ecs.r6e.2xlarge, ecs.r6e.4xlarge, ecs.r6e.8xlarge, ecs.r6e.13xlarge, and ecs.r6e.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline IOPS

Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r6e.large

2

16

1.2/burstable up to 10

900,000

Up to 250,000

2

3

6

1

20,000

1

ecs.r6e.xlarge

4

32

2/burstable up to 10

1,000,000

Up to 250,000

4

4

15

1

40,000

1.5

ecs.r6e.2xlarge

8

64

3/burstable up to 10

1,600,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

15

1

50,000

2

ecs.r6e.4xlarge

16

128

6/burstable up to 10

3,000,000

300,000

8

8

30

1

80,000

3

ecs.r6e.8xlarge

32

256

10/none

6,000,000

600,000

16

8

30

1

150,000

5

ecs.r6e.13xlarge

52

384

16/none

9,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

30

1

240,000

8

ecs.r6e.26xlarge

104

768

32/none

24,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

30

1

480,000

16

r6, memory-optimized instance family

  • Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.

    • Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

      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.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Instance type change: Supports changes to g6 or c6 instance types.

The r6 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r6.large, ecs.r6.xlarge, ecs.r6.2xlarge, ecs.r6.3xlarge, ecs.r6.4xlarge, ecs.r6.6xlarge, ecs.r6.8xlarge, ecs.r6.13xlarge, and ecs.r6.26xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk baseline IOPS

Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.r6.large

2

16

1/burstable up to 3

300,000

Up to 250,000

2

2

6

1

10,000

1

ecs.r6.xlarge

4

32

1.5/burstable up to 5

500,000

Up to 250,000

4

3

10

1

20,000

1.5

ecs.r6.2xlarge

8

64

2.5/burstable up to 8

800,000

Up to 250,000

8

4

10

1

25,000

2

ecs.r6.3xlarge

12

96

4/burstable up to 10

900,000

Up to 250,000

8

6

10

1

30,000

2.5

ecs.r6.4xlarge

16

128

5/burstable up to 10

1,000,000

300,000

8

8

20

1

40,000

3

ecs.r6.6xlarge

24

192

7.5/burstable up to 10

1,500,000

450,000

12

8

20

1

50,000

4

ecs.r6.8xlarge

32

256

10/none

2,000,000

600,000

16

8

20

1

60,000

5

ecs.r6.13xlarge

52

384

12.5/none

3,000,000

900,000

32

7

20

1

100,000

8

ecs.r6.26xlarge

104

768

25/none

6,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

20

1

200,000

16

r5, memory-optimized instance family

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

      Note

      Instances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the r6, r6e, or r7 instance family instead.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

      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:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The r5 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.r5.large, ecs.r5.xlarge, ecs.r5.2xlarge, ecs.r5.3xlarge, ecs.r5.4xlarge, ecs.r5.6xlarge, ecs.r5.8xlarge, and ecs.r5.16xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

ecs.r5.large

2

16

1

300,000

2

2

6

1

ecs.r5.xlarge

4

32

1.5

500,000

2

3

10

1

ecs.r5.2xlarge

8

64

2.5

800,000

4

4

10

1

ecs.r5.3xlarge

12

96

4

900,000

4

6

10

1

ecs.r5.4xlarge

16

128

5

1,000,000

4

8

20

1

ecs.r5.6xlarge

24

192

7.5

1,500,000

6

8

20

1

ecs.r5.8xlarge

32

256

10

2,000,000

8

8

20

1

ecs.r5.16xlarge

64

512

20

4,000,000

16

8

20

1

se1ne, network-enhanced memory-optimized instance family

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

      Note

      Instances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the r6, r6e, or r7 instance family instead.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The se1ne instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.se1ne.large, ecs.se1ne.xlarge, ecs.se1ne.2xlarge, ecs.se1ne.3xlarge, ecs.se1ne.4xlarge, ecs.se1ne.6xlarge, ecs.se1ne.8xlarge, and ecs.se1ne.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

ecs.se1ne.large

2

16

1

300,000

2

2

6

1

ecs.se1ne.xlarge

4

32

1.5

500,000

2

3

10

1

ecs.se1ne.2xlarge

8

64

2

1,000,000

4

4

10

1

ecs.se1ne.3xlarge

12

96

2.5

1,300,000

4

6

10

1

ecs.se1ne.4xlarge

16

128

3

1,600,000

4

8

20

1

ecs.se1ne.6xlarge

24

192

4.5

2,000,000

6

8

20

1

ecs.se1ne.8xlarge

32

256

6

2,500,000

8

8

20

1

ecs.se1ne.14xlarge

56

480

10

4,500,000

14

8

20

1

se1, memory-optimized instance family

  • Supported scenarios:

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

  • Network:

    • Supports only IPv4.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

The se1 instance family includes the following instance types: ecs.se1.large, ecs.se1.xlarge, ecs.se1.2xlarge, ecs.se1.4xlarge, ecs.se1.8xlarge, and ecs.se1.14xlarge. Click the following panel to see a table describing the specifications of each instance type in this instance family. For information about the metrics of instance types, see the Instance type metrics section of the "Classification and naming of instance types" topic.

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

ecs.se1.large

2

16

0.5

100,000

1

2

6

ecs.se1.xlarge

4

32

0.8

200,000

1

3

10

ecs.se1.2xlarge

8

64

1.5

400,000

1

4

10

ecs.se1.4xlarge

16

128

3

500,000

2

8

20

ecs.se1.8xlarge

32

256

6

800,000

3

8

20

ecs.se1.14xlarge

56

480

10

1,200,000

4

8

20

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