This topic provides an overview of public images provided by Alibaba Cloud, including Alibaba Cloud Linux images, third-party images, and open source images. The public images are fully licensed to provide a secure and stable operating environment for applications on ECS instances.
Types of public images
| Type | Description | Technical support |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Linux images | Alibaba Cloud Linux images are custom, proprietary operating systems provided by Alibaba Cloud to create ECS instances. Alibaba Cloud Linux images are fully tested to guarantee their security, stability, and normal startup and operation. | Alibaba Cloud provides technical support for problems that occur when you use Alibaba Cloud Linux images. |
| Third-party images and open source images | Third-party and open source images are fully tested and released by Alibaba Cloud
to guarantee their security, stability, and normal startup and operation. Such images
include:
|
We recommend that you contact the corresponding operating system vendors or open source communities for technical support. Alibaba Cloud also provides information about image- and system-related problems. |
Alibaba Cloud Linux images
| Operating system | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 |
|
A next-generation operating system that supports various Alibaba Cloud instance types including ECS Bare Metal Instance Types. By default, Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 is also equipped with Alibaba Cloud CLI and other software packages. If you want to replace other Linux distributions with Alibaba Cloud Linux 2, you can select Public Image and then Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 when you create an ECS instance or when you replace the system disk of an ECS instance. For more information, see Overview of Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 and Release notes of Alibaba Cloud Linux 2. |
Third-party images and open source images
Alibaba Cloud releases and updates public images of third-party and open source image vendors on a regular basis. For more information, see Release notes. In the ECS console, you can select a region and view all the public images available in that region on the Public Images tab. For more information, see Find an image.
- Windows images
Operating system Version Windows Server 2019 - Windows Server 2019 with Container Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2019 with Container Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
Windows Server 2016 - Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
Windows Server 2012 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
Windows Server Version **** (Semi-Annual Channel) - Windows Server Version **** Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server Version **** Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
The asterisks (****) indicate the latest version number of the Semi-Annual Channel release.
Note On January 14, 2020, Microsoft stopped providing support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud no longer provides technical support for ECS instances that use the preceding operating systems. If you have ECS instances that use the preceding operating systems, upgrade them to Windows Server 2012 or later in a timely manner. - Linux images
Operating system Version CentOS - CentOS 8.2 64-bit
- CentOS 8.1 64-bit
- CentOS 8.0 64-bit
- CentOS 7.8 64-bit (Trusted)
- CentOS 7.8 64-bit
- CentOS 7.7 64-bit
- CentOS 7.6 64-bit
- CentOS 7.5 64-bit
- CentOS 7.4 64-bit
- CentOS 7.3 64-bit
- CentOS 7.2 64-bit
- CentOS 6.10 64-bit
- CentOS 6.9 64-bit
- CentOS 6.8 32-bit
Note If you are using a 32-bit operating system, you must select an instance types that has a memory of less than or equal to 4 GiB. For more information, see Select an image.CoreOS - CoreOS 2345.3.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2303.4.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2303.3.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2247.6.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2023.4.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 1745.7.0 64-bit
Debian - Debian 10.5 64-bit
- Debian 10.4 64-bit
- Debian 10.3 64-bit
- Debian 10.2 64-bit
- Debian 9.13 64-bit
- Debian 9.12 64-bit
- Debian 9.11 64-bit
- Debian 9.9 64-bit
- Debian 9.8 64-bit
- Debian 9.6 64-bit
- Debian 8.11 64-bit
- Debian 8.9 64-bit
FreeBSD - FreeBSD 11.3 64-bit
- FreeBSD 11.2 64-bit
OpenSUSE - OpenSUSE 15.2 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 15.1 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 42.3 64-bit
Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 64-bit
Note Before you use a Red Hat image, you must check whether the Red Hat image is supported by the instance family. For more information, see Which instance families do Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) images support?.SUSE Linux - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 64-bit
Ubuntu - Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu: 18.04 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit
- Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
- Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit
Note If you are using a 32-bit operating system, you must select an instance type that has a memory of less than or equal to 4 GiB. For more information, see Select an image.