benefits, features, download methods, and usage of Alibaba Cloud Client - Elastic Compute Service

You can install Alibaba Cloud Client on your on-premises computer to manage and use resources in your account in an efficient and convenient manner. The resources can be Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, elastic container instances, simple application servers, and instances that are managed by Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud Client supports operations such as viewing, querying, and remotely connecting to instances or servers. It can be installed on devices that run Windows, macOS x64, and macOS Arm64 operating systems.

Benefits

Allows you to view, query, and connect to ECS instances and elastic container instances.
Allows you to connect to ECS instances and elastic container instances without the need to provide passwords or public IP addresses.
Allows you to connect to specific ports on ECS instances from on-premises devices.
Allows you to view and connect to simple application servers, managed instances, and other Linux servers.
Allows you to configure multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts and switch between the accounts without the need to log out of any of the accounts.

Features

The following table describes the features of Alibaba Cloud Client that you can use to view, query, and connect to specific cloud services.

Cloud service	Feature description
ECS	You can view ECS instances by region, and query ECS instances in a specific or all regions. Alibaba Cloud Client supports the following methods to connect to instances: Connect to instances over SSH. For an instance that has a public IP address, connect to the instance over SSH by using the public IP address. For an instance that has no public IP address, connect to the instance over SSH by using Session Manager that Cloud Assistant provides. Connect to instances by using Session Manager. Connect to instances by using port forwarding. You can use Alibaba Cloud Client to manage passwords and certificates. You can store instance logon information in Alibaba Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) or on-premises files. For information about KMS, see What is Key Management Service?
Elastic Container Instance	You can view elastic container instances by region. You can view events of container groups. You can connect to a container in a container group.
Simple Application Server	You can view simple application servers by region. You can view the monitoring information and properties of simple application servers. You can connect to simple application servers over SSH.
Alibaba Cloud managed instance	You can view instances that are managed by Alibaba Cloud by region. You can view the properties of managed instances. Alibaba Cloud Client supports the following methods to connect to managed instances: Connect to managed instances over SSH. Connect to managed instances by using session management.

Download methods

You can click one of the following links to download Alibaba Cloud Client based on the operating system of your computer and your business requirements:

Configuration guide

You can perform the following operations to install and use Alibaba Cloud Client:

Download and install Alibaba Cloud Client on your on-premises computer.
For information about the download links of Alibaba Cloud Client, see the Download methods section in this topic.
Add your accounts to Alibaba Cloud Client to manage resources in the accounts.
For more information, see Add accounts to Alibaba Cloud Client.
View and manage your resources by using Alibaba Cloud Client.
(Optional) Configure the settings of Alibaba Cloud Client, such as the system settings, based on your business requirements.
For more information, see Configure the settings of Alibaba Cloud Client.