ECS
ECS (Elastic Compute Service) is a secure, reliable, elastic and scalable cloud computing service that helps you reduce IT costs, improve operation and maintenance efficiency, and focus more on core business innovation. Professional pre-sales technical support to help you choose the most appropriate configuration scheme. For details, please refer to: 95187-1

Product trial service

Provide you with personal and enterprise trial product services (choose one from the other), so that you can easily experience 3 months
Personal version trial Suitable for students, individuals and start-ups
Trial specification: entry-level server e series 2-core 2GB or 2-core 4GB
Number of trial units: 1-4
Trial service: 280 yuan per month, 3 months of probation
Pre installed applications: WordPress and LAMP pre installed for free
Trial description: trial benefits are different from new users' purchase discounts
Trial users can enjoy 20 vulnerability repair services after paying
Enterprise Trial Suitable for SME development, testing and other scenarios
Trial specification: the latest enterprise class server 2-4 is optional
Number of trial units: 2 units, meeting the general test scenario
Trial service: including 1-3 month trial duration, expiration reminder service, etc
Trial scenario: applicable to web applications, e-commerce, batch computing and other applications
Trial description: trial benefits are different from new users' purchase discounts
Rights and interests after trial: 60% off for products upgraded for 1 year or less
Benefits after trial: 60% off for renewal of trial products
Trial users can enjoy 20 vulnerability repair services after paying

Product specification

The "core" mentioned on the page refers to vCPU
Economical
General force calculation type
Lightweight applications
Burst performance
Universal
Computational
Memory type
Big data
GPU type
Local SSD type
High dominant frequency type
FPGA type
Elastic bare metal
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Product advantages

Elastic computing has accumulated profound technology for more than ten years, leading technology, excellent performance and stability
stable
Single instance availability reached 99.975%, multi availability zone multi instance availability reached 99.995%, cloud disk reliability reached nine nines, which can realize automatic migration and snapshot backup when downtime occurs
elastic
It supports the creation of thousands of instances at the minute level. A variety of flexible payment options are more suitable for the current business situation, and at the same time, it brings elastic capacity expansion. Instances and bandwidth can be adjusted at any time, and cloud disk can be expanded
security
It provides services such as DDoS protection, Trojan horse killing, and provides instances that support trusted computing, hardware encryption, and virtualized encrypted computing. Through multi-party international security authentication, ECS cloud disk supports data encryption
High performance
The single instance can select up to 256vCPU, 6TB memory, 3.8GHz main frequency, up to 24 million PPS, 80Gbps, 1 million IOPS, 16 million sessions, and 20us network latency+
Ease of use
Rich operating systems and application software can be easily deployed with one click through images. The same image can quickly copy the environment in multiple ECSs and easily expand
Expandability
ECS can seamlessly connect with Alibaba Cloud's various cloud products and provide complete computing, storage, security and other solutions for business development

Product Functions

Rich instance types and multiple storage options
For various enterprise application scenarios, ECS will provide more than 100 high-performance specification families for you to choose from. According to your actual business scenario, you can select different configuration instances to match 1 to 65 storage disks with different capacities.
Computing architecture
X86 and ARM computing architectures are provided. You can select the appropriate architecture when selecting models, which fully fits your business scenarios.
Instance type
Each computing architecture provides a variety of instance types and specifications for different scenarios to meet your needs while providing the ultimate cost performance. details
Storage type
According to your actual business scenario, you can select different configuration instances and match them with 1 to 65 storage disks of different capacities. While cloud disk and local disk provide you with various choices, cloud disk will provide you with the reliability of up to nine nines. details
VPC VPC
Based on an isolated network environment built by Alibaba Cloud, VPCs are logically and completely isolated, and can only be interconnected through externally mapped IP (elastic public network IP and NAT IP). Because the tunnel encapsulation technology is used to encapsulate the IP message of the ECS, the data link layer (layer 2 MAC address) information of the ECS will not enter the physical network, which realizes the layer 2 network isolation between different ECS, and therefore also realizes the layer 2 network isolation between different VPCs. ECS in the VPC uses the security group firewall for three-layer network access control.
access control
Flexible access control rules. Meet the security isolation specifications of government affairs and finance.
Software defined network
Configure network settings as needed, and software defines the network. The management operation takes effect in real time.
Rich network connections
Support software VPN; Support leased line connection.
Snapshots and multiple mirror types
Snapshots and multiple image types support rapid deployment of your business.
Higher snapshot safety factor
Each cloud disk has 1256 snapshot quotas, providing longer protection cycles and finer protection granularity for customer data. details
Automatic snapshot policy
Realize unattended automatic data backup and reduce the workload of the operation and maintenance department. details
Snapshots are flexible and easy to use
The performance impact is small, the user's business is not perceived, and data snapshot backup is supported at any time. Fast snapshots and snapshot consistency groups that support second level creation/rollback.
Rich types of images
Public images, image markets, custom images, and community images meet the needs of all types of users for rapid deployment and flexible management of application environments. details
Image construction service
It provides one-stop image customization service and supports image customization, distribution, sharing and other operations. details
Multiple payment and storage options
The five payment modes, namely, monthly subscription, pay as you go, savings plan, reserved instance coupon and preemptive payment, respectively meet the calculation requirements of long cycle, low cost and high cycle flexibility.
Savings plan
It is suitable for users to use cloud resources stably within a certain period of time (1 year or 3 years) (measured in yuan/hour). After purchasing the savings plan, you can activate the ECS, ECI and other on-demand resources under the plan, enjoy the plan discount benefits every hour, and the hourly bill will be automatically deducted. details
Monthly purchase
It is suitable for long-term stable business. The longer the purchase cycle is, the higher the discount will be, and the maximum discount will be 30% off for 5 years.
Pay as you go purchase
The payment method of purchasing resources in line with business needs, charging in seconds, and spending as much as you want.
Reserved instance coupon
A voucher is suitable for businesses that need flexibility and cost, or businesses that need to reserve instance resources. It can be used with pay as you go instances to deduct the bill for the calculation of pay as you go instances. Compared with using pay as you go instances directly, the cost can be reduced by up to 79%. details
Preemptive Instance
It is suitable for periodic offline computing scenarios. Resources can be obtained at a cost much lower than the original price. They can be sold at a discount to the lowest original price, but will be released according to supply and demand changes or bidding prices. details

Application scenarios

General Web Application
Online games
Big data analysis
Deep learning
General Web Application
The architecture used by most web applications. Alibaba Cloud recommends the C/G/R series of servers, giving consideration to efficient construction, use and high-performance processing capabilities
Able to solve
CDN network provides content distribution services for web applications to ensure excellent user experience and cost savings
Content cache in OSS storage, providing high reliability and low-cost storage capacity
Load balancing processes HTTP requests and distributes traffic to the main business availability zone
The front end and application server are deployed on ECS instances, and SLB can achieve load balancing
ESS elastic scaling creates or releases resources for on-demand business, enabling you to obtain better business performance and cost
The database deployed on RDS in multiple availability zones ensures the disaster recovery performance of the service
Recommended combination
Online games
For scenes with high concurrency and large amount of instantaneous computing, Alibaba Cloud recommends high primary frequency and GPU servers to meet the requirements of high computing performance and high image rendering performance
Able to solve
Load balancing processes HTTP requests and distributes traffic to the designated game clothing cluster
Connection servers, game servers, cache servers, etc. create or release resources on demand through ESS elastic scaling
The database deployed on RDS in multiple availability zones ensures the disaster recovery performance of the service
Recommended combination
Big data analysis
For big data application scenarios that frequently read storage, Alibaba Cloud recommends big data instances and local disk instances. Both the master and slave nodes have excellent performance
Able to solve
The business system generates logs and transmits them to Hadoop big data storage for analysis; Or user big data is stored in OSS objects and loaded into Hadoop big data system for analysis
Build cost-effective, massive and scalable cloud Hadoop system based on ECS big data instances
The analysis results can be stored in MySQL or NoSQL (HBase/MonoDB/Redis) and other databases for users to query
Big data Bi and display
Recommended combination
Deep learning
Alibaba Cloud recommends GPU instances and AMD instances for continuous and massive deep learning scenarios of artificial neural network computing, which not only performs excellently, but also saves a lot of costs
Able to solve
At the data level, it can be connected with OSS object storage, NAS file storage, cloud disk, etc. to meet the low-cost storage and access requirements of massive training data for in-depth learning
Data preprocessing through EMR service
Monitoring and alerting GPU resources through cloud monitoring services
Build a complete AI deep learning business system in the cloud quickly through ECS, load balancing, elastic scaling, resource orchestration, etc
Recommended combination

Video Tutorials

Understanding ECS
Understand the shadowless cloud desktop
Money saving secret script - reserved instance coupon
Money saving secret - saving plan
Learn how to migrate to the cloud in 3 minutes
Learn how to expand cloud disk in 3 minutes
Quickly set up FTP site
Understand the proprietary host DDH
Introduction to the sixth generation instance specification
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Customer Stories

Sina Weibo
Through the elastic expansion and quick start features of ECI+ASK, the expansion time is greatly shortened, burst traffic is easily supported, and service stability is guaranteed.
Spark thinking
Through ECI's O&M free and fully automated elastic scalability, we can improve utilization, significantly reduce costs and O&M work, and help business grow at a high speed.
Huiliang Technology
Based on Alibaba Cloud's elastic scalability, we jointly launched an elastic cluster management solution, SpotMax, to ensure the availability of elastic resources and achieve lower costs.
Cloud based technology
Using the ROS template, one click deployment of enterprise level high availability SAP excellent practices has improved the deployment efficiency by about 30 times compared with other cloud based SAP consultants.

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