This topic describes the release notes for Alibaba Cloud heterogeneous computing services and provides links to the relevant references.

For the release notes for Elastic Compute Service (ECS), see Release notes.

August 2022

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn7e GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2022-08-25SomeOverview of instance families

February 2022

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyInstance types are added to the gn7i GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family. 2022-02-09SomeOverview of instance families

December 2021

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe sccgn7ex GPU-accelerated compute-optimized SCC instance family is released. 2021-12-22AllOverview of instance families

November 2021

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe ebmgn6ia GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2021-11-24AllOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe ebmgn7e GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2021-11-15AllOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe sgn7i-vws vGPU-accelerated instance family with shared CPUs is released. 2021-11-15AllOverview of instance families

August 2021

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe vgn7i-vws vGPU-accelerated instance family is released. This instance family comes with an NVIDIA GRID vWS license. 2021-09-15AllOverview of instance families

June 2021

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe ebmgn7i GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2021-06-08AllOverview of instance families

January 2021

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn7 GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2021-01-12SomeOverview of instance families

October 2020

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe ebmgn6i GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2020-10-26SomeOverview of instance families

January 2020

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe vgn6i lightweight GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2020-01-16SomeOverview of instance families

November 2019

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn6e GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2019-11-14SomeOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe ebmgn6e GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2019-11-14SomeOverview of instance families

August 2019

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe ebmgn6v GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2019-08-26SomeOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe ebmgn6i GPU-accelerated compute-optimized ECS Bare Metal Instance family is released. 2019-08-26SomeOverview of instance families

June 2019

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
The vgn5i lightweight GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released.GRID drivers are provided for vgn5i instances. 2019-06-19AllInstall a GRID driver on a Linux vGPU-accelerated instance

March 2019

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn6i GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2019-03-21AllOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe sccgn6 GPU-accelerated compute-optimized SCC instance family is released. 2019-03-20AllOverview of instance families
Instance familyThe vgn5i lightweight GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2019-03-19AllOverview of instance families

September 2018

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn6v new-generation GPU-accelerated instance family (V100 model) is released. 2018-09-12AllOverview of instance families

March 2018

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
GPU-accelerated instanceNVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) GPU-accelerated containers are supported. 2018-03-28AllDeploy an NGC environment on gn5 instances

February 2017

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe gn4 GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family is released. 2017-02-14AllOverview of instance families

January 2017

FeatureDescriptionRelease dateRegionReferences
Instance familyThe ga1 GPU-accelerated visualization and compute-optimized instance family is released. 2017-01-24AllOverview of instance families