Images provide operating systems, initial application data, and pre-installed software. You can use images to create and deploy cloud computers in Elastic Desktop Service. This topic describes the scenarios, types, and other information about images that are provided by Elastic Desktop Service.
Billing
You are not charged for using images that are provided by Elastic Desktop Service.
Scenarios
Create cloud computers
An image contains the operating system, initial application data, and other data that are required to create a cloud computer. You can use an image to quickly create a cloud computer.
You can create a custom image based on a configured cloud computer or a snapshot. The custom image can be used to create multiple cloud computers at a time.
Replace an operating system
If the operating system of your cloud computer cannot meet your business requirements, you can change the image to replace the operating system or initialize the data of the existing operating system.
Image types
Images of Elastic Desktop Service fall into the following categories based on the source of the image:
System images are provided by Elastic Desktop Service and have passed the security and stability tests of Alibaba Cloud. A system image provides a Windows Server operating system or a Linux operating system.
Custom images are created by users based on existing cloud computers or snapshots or imported by using Server Migration Center (SMC) or the Elastic Desktop Service console.
Shared images are shared from one Alibaba Cloud account to another Alibaba Cloud account.
System images
System images are the default images provided by Alibaba Cloud Elastic Desktop Service. System images contain the environments and data that are required to create cloud computers. The following table lists the system images that are provided by Elastic Desktop Service.
Windows Server 2016 system images are no longer maintained. To ensure that your cloud computers work as expected, we recommend that you change the images to Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2022 ones at your earliest opportunity. For more information about how to change an image, see Change the image of a cloud computer or cloud computer pool.
Operating system | Image name | Language | Size (GiB) | GPU contained |
Windows Server 2016 | Windows Server 2016 |
| 40 | No |
Windows Server 2016 vgpu |
| 40 | Yes | |
Windows Server 2019 | Windows Server 2019 |
| 40 | No |
Windows Server 2019 vgpu |
| 40 | Yes | |
Windows Server 2019 RPA |
| 40 | No | |
Windows Server 2022 | Windows Server 2022 |
| 40 | No |
Windows Server 2022 vgpu |
| 40 | Yes | |
Linux Ubuntu 20.04 | Linux-Ubuntu-2004 | English | 40 | No |
Linux-Ubuntu-2004 vgpu | English | 40 | Yes |
Custom images
A custom image contains the operating system, configuration information, and business or application data for custom deployment. You can use a custom image to create cloud computers that have the same configurations based on your business requirements. This eliminates the trouble of repeating the same configurations over and again. The following table describes how to create a custom image.
Method to create a custom image | Description | References |
Create a custom image based on a cloud computer or a snapshot. |
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Import an image to the WUYING Workspace console | You can import Windows Server images from on-premises machines to WUYING Workspace. |
After you create a custom image, you can perform the following operations based on your business requirements:
Create a custom cloud computer template
You can use the custom image to create a cloud computer template. Then, you can use the cloud computer template to create multiple cloud computers that have the same configurations at a time. For more information, see Create custom cloud computer templates.
Share the image
You can share the custom image to other Alibaba Cloud accounts. For more information, see Share or unshare an image.
Copy the image
You can copy the custom image to another region. For more information, see Copy an image.
Delete the image
If you no longer need the image, you can delete it. For more information, see Delete images.
Shared images
After you create a custom image, you can share the image to other Alibaba Cloud accounts. In this case, the image is a shared image. Users that receive the shared image can use the image to create cloud computers that have the same configurations in an efficient manner. If you no longer want to share the image with another account, you can unshare the image. For more information, see Share or unshare an image.