Public images provided by Alibaba Cloud are fully licensed to provide a secure and stable operating environment for applications on ECS instances. This topic describes Aliyun Linux images and third-party and open-source images.
Types of public images
| Type | Description | Technical support |
|---|---|---|
| Aliyun Linux images | Aliyun Linux images are custom, native operating systems provided by Alibaba Cloud for you to launch ECS instances. Each Aliyun Linux image has been rigorously tested to guarantee its security, stability, and normal startup and operation. |
Alibaba Cloud provides technical support if any problem occurs during the use of Aliyun Linux images. |
| Third-party and open-source images | Third-party and open-source images have been rigorously 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 OS vendors or open-source communities for technical support. Alibaba Cloud also provides information about image- and system-related problems. |
Aliyun Linux images
| Operating system | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aliyun Linux 2 | Aliyun Linux 2.1903 64-bit |
A next-generation OS that supports various Alibaba Cloud instance types including ECS Bare Metal Instances. Aliyun Linux 2 is also equipped with Alibaba Cloud CLI and other software packages by default. If you want to replace other Linux distributions with Aliyun Linux 2, you can select Public Image and then Aliyun Linux 2 when creating an ECS instance, or replace the system disk of an existing ECS instance with Aliyun Linux 2. For more information, see Aliyun Linux 2. |
Third-party and open-source images
Alibaba Cloud regularly releases and updates public images of third-party and open-source vendors. For more information, see Release notes. You can view all the available public images on the Public Images page in the corresponding region in the ECS console. For more information, see Search for an image.
- Windows images
Operating system Version Windows Server 2019 - 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 2008 - Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 32-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit (English)
Note If you are using a 32-bit operating system, do not select instance types that have a memory capacity exceeding 4 GiB. For more information, see Select an image.Windows Server Version 1903 - Windows Server Version 1903 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (Chinese)
- Windows Server Version 1903 Datacenter Edition 64-bit (English)
- Linux images
Operating system Version CentOS - 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, do not select instance types that have a memory capacity exceeding 4 GiB. For more information, see Select an image.CoreOS - CoreOS 2023.4.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 1745.7.0 64-bit
Debian - 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 11.2 64-bit openSUSE openSUSE 42.3 64-bit Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 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
SUSE Linux - 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 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, do not select instance types that have a memory capacity exceeding 4 GiB. For more information, see Select an image.