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Elastic Compute Service:Instance families with high clock speeds

Last Updated:Nov 08, 2023

This topic describes the features of instance families with high clock speeds and lists the instance types of each instance family.

hfc7, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

    • Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz for consistent computing performance.

    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks are supported.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance frontend server clusters

    • Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games

    • Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding

    • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfc7.large

2

4

1.2/10

900,000

250,000

2

2

6

6

20,000

1

ecs.hfc7.xlarge

4

8

2/10

1,000,000

250,000

4

3

15

15

30,000

1.5

ecs.hfc7.2xlarge

8

16

3/10

1,600,000

250,000

8

4

15

15

45,000

2

ecs.hfc7.3xlarge

12

24

4.5/10

2,000,000

250,000

8

6

15

15

60,000

2.5

ecs.hfc7.4xlarge

16

32

6/10

2,500,000

300,000

8

8

30

30

75,000

3

ecs.hfc7.6xlarge

24

48

8/10

3,000,000

450,000

12

8

30

30

90,000

4

ecs.hfc7.8xlarge

32

64

10/none

4,000,000

600,000

16

8

30

30

105,000

5

ecs.hfc7.12xlarge

48

96

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

24

8

30

30

150,000

8

ecs.hfc7.24xlarge

96

192

32/none

12,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

30

30

300,000

16

Note

hfc6, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

    • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz for consistent computing performance.

      Note

      The processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.

      You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:

      yum install kernel-tools
      turbostat
    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports enhanced SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • Web frontend servers

    • Frontend servers of MMO games

    • Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding

    • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IP addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfc6.large

2

4

1/3

300,000

35,000

2

2

6

10,000

1

ecs.hfc6.xlarge

4

8

1.5/5

500,000

70,000

4

3

10

20,000

1.5

ecs.hfc6.2xlarge

8

16

2.5/8

800,000

150,000

8

4

10

25,000

2

ecs.hfc6.3xlarge

12

24

4/10

900,000

220,000

8

6

10

30,000

2.5

ecs.hfc6.4xlarge

16

32

5/10

1,000,000

300,000

8

8

20

40,000

3

ecs.hfc6.6xlarge

24

48

7.5/10

1,500,000

450,000

12

8

20

50,000

4

ecs.hfc6.8xlarge

32

64

10/none

2,000,000

600,000

16

8

20

60,000

5

ecs.hfc6.10xlarge

40

96

12.5/none

3,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

20

100,000

8

ecs.hfc6.16xlarge

64

128

20/none

4,000,000

1,200,000

32

8

20

120,000

10

ecs.hfc6.20xlarge

80

192

25/none

6,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

20

200,000

16

Note

hfg7, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz for consistent computing performance.

    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks are supported.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes

    • Game servers

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters

    • High-performance scientific computing

    • Video encoding applications

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfg7.large

2

8

1.2/10

900,000

250,000

2

2

6

6

20,000

1

ecs.hfg7.xlarge

4

16

2/10

1,000,000

250,000

4

3

15

15

30,000

1.5

ecs.hfg7.2xlarge

8

32

3/10

1,600,000

250,000

8

4

15

15

45,000

2

ecs.hfg7.3xlarge

12

48

4.5/10

2,000,000

250,000

8

6

15

15

60,000

2.5

ecs.hfg7.4xlarge

16

64

6/10

2,500,000

300,000

8

8

30

30

75,000

3

ecs.hfg7.6xlarge

24

96

8/10

3,000,000

450,000

12

8

30

30

90,000

4

ecs.hfg7.8xlarge

32

128

10/none

4,000,000

600,000

16

8

30

30

105,000

5

ecs.hfg7.12xlarge

48

192

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

24

8

30

30

150,000

8

ecs.hfg7.24xlarge

96

384

32/none

12,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

30

30

300,000

16

Note

hfg6, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

    • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz for consistent computing performance.

      Note

      The processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.

      You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:

      yum install kernel-tools
      turbostat
    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes

    • Websites and application servers

    • Game servers

    • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters

    • Data analytics and computing

    • Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IP addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfg6.large

2

8

1/3

300,000

35,000

2

2

6

10,000

1

ecs.hfg6.xlarge

4

16

1.5/5

500,000

70,000

4

3

10

20,000

1.5

ecs.hfg6.2xlarge

8

32

2.5/8

800,000

150,000

8

4

10

25,000

2

ecs.hfg6.3xlarge

12

48

4/10

900,000

220,000

8

6

10

30,000

2.5

ecs.hfg6.4xlarge

16

64

5/10

1,000,000

300,000

8

8

20

40,000

3

ecs.hfg6.6xlarge

24

96

7.5/10

1,500,000

450,000

12

8

20

50,000

4

ecs.hfg6.8xlarge

32

128

10/none

2,000,000

600,000

16

8

20

60,000

5

ecs.hfg6.10xlarge

40

192

12.5/none

3,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

20

100,000

8

ecs.hfg6.16xlarge

64

256

20/none

4,000,000

1,200,000

32

8

20

120,000

10

ecs.hfg6.20xlarge

80

384

25/none

6,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

20

200,000

16

Note

hfr7, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and have a minimum clock speed of 3.3 GHz for consistent computing performance.

    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks are supported.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IPv4 addresses per ENI

IPv6 addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfr7.large

2

16

1.2/10

900,000

250,000

2

2

6

6

20,000

1

ecs.hfr7.xlarge

4

32

2/10

1,000,000

250,000

4

3

15

15

30,000

1.5

ecs.hfr7.2xlarge

8

64

3/10

1,600,000

250,000

8

4

15

15

45,000

2

ecs.hfr7.3xlarge

12

96

4.5/10

2,000,000

250,000

8

6

15

15

60,000

2.5

ecs.hfr7.4xlarge

16

128

6/10

2,500,000

300,000

8

8

30

30

75,000

3

ecs.hfr7.6xlarge

24

192

8/10

3,000,000

450,000

12

8

30

30

90,000

4

ecs.hfr7.8xlarge

32

256

10/none

4,000,000

600,000

16

8

30

30

105,000

5

ecs.hfr7.12xlarge

48

384

16/none

6,000,000

1,000,000

24

8

30

30

150,000

8

ecs.hfr7.24xlarge

96

768

32/none

12,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

30

30

300,000

16

Note

hfr6, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

    • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz for consistent computing performance.

      Note

      The processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.

      You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:

      yum install kernel-tools
      turbostat
    • Allows you to enable or disable Hyper-Threading.

      Note

      By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled for ECS instances. For more information, see Specify and view CPU options.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

    • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

      Note

      For more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

  • Network:

    • Supports IPv6.

    • Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • Scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as on-screen video comments and telecom data forwarding

    • High-performance databases and in-memory databases

    • Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching

    • Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

Connections

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IP addresses per ENI

Disk IOPS

Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s)

ecs.hfr6.large

2

16

1/3

300,000

35,000

2

2

6

10,000

1

ecs.hfr6.xlarge

4

32

1.5/5

500,000

70,000

4

3

10

20,000

1.5

ecs.hfr6.2xlarge

8

64

2.5/8

800,000

150,000

8

4

10

25,000

2

ecs.hfr6.3xlarge

12

96

4/10

900,000

220,000

8

6

10

30,000

2.5

ecs.hfr6.4xlarge

16

128

5/10

1,000,000

300,000

8

8

20

40,000

3

ecs.hfr6.6xlarge

24

192

7.5/10

1,500,000

450,000

12

8

20

50,000

4

ecs.hfr6.8xlarge

32

256

10/none

2,000,000

600,000

16

8

20

60,000

5

ecs.hfr6.10xlarge

40

384

12.5/none

3,000,000

1,000,000

32

7

20

100,000

8

ecs.hfr6.16xlarge

64

512

20/none

4,000,000

1,200,000

32

8

20

120,000

10

ecs.hfr6.20xlarge

80

768

25/none

6,000,000

1,800,000

32

15

20

200,000

16

Note

hfc5, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

    • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors.

    • Provides consistent computing performance.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

  • Network:

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • High-performance web frontend servers

    • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

    • MMO gaming and video encoding

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IP addresses per ENI

ecs.hfc5.large

2

4

1

300,000

2

2

6

ecs.hfc5.xlarge

4

8

1.5

500,000

2

3

10

ecs.hfc5.2xlarge

8

16

2

1,000,000

2

4

10

ecs.hfc5.3xlarge

12

24

2.5

1,300,000

4

6

10

ecs.hfc5.4xlarge

16

32

3

1,600,000

4

8

20

ecs.hfc5.6xlarge

24

48

4.5

2,000,000

6

8

20

ecs.hfc5.8xlarge

32

64

6

2,500,000

8

8

20

Note

hfg5, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds

Features

  • Compute:

    • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4 (excluding the instance type with 56 vCPUs).

    • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors.

    • Provides consistent computing performance.

  • Storage:

    • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

    • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

  • Network:

    • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

  • Supported scenarios:

    • High-performance web frontend servers

    • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

    • MMO gaming and video encoding

Instance types

Instance type

vCPU

Memory (GiB)

Network bandwidth (Gbit/s)

Packet forwarding rate (pps)

NIC queues

ENIs

Private IP addresses per ENI

ecs.hfg5.large

2

8

1

300,000

2

2

6

ecs.hfg5.xlarge

4

16

1.5

500,000

2

3

10

ecs.hfg5.2xlarge

8

32

2

1,000,000

2

4

10

ecs.hfg5.3xlarge

12

48

2.5

1,300,000

4

6

10

ecs.hfg5.4xlarge

16

64

3

1,600,000

4

8

20

ecs.hfg5.6xlarge

24

96

4.5

2,000,000

6

8

20

ecs.hfg5.8xlarge

32

128

6

2,500,000

8

8

20

ecs.hfg5.14xlarge

56

160

10

4,000,000

14

8

20

Note