To improve user experience, Alibaba Cloud will upgrade reservation specifications for ACS GPU capacity reservations on June 24, 2025, and complete the upgrade across all regions by July 11, 2025. The specifications supported by GPU capacity reservations will be upgraded to the default maximum specifications (lower specifications will no longer be available for purchase), and will support pay-as-you-go pod specifications that are backward compatible.
Changes
To improve user experience, Alibaba Cloud will upgrade reservation specifications for ACS GPU capacity reservations on June 24, 2025, and complete the upgrade across all regions by July 11, 2025.
Before the upgrade
Taking the GU8TF GPU model as an example, the specifications supported for capacity reservations before the upgrade are shown in the following table.
Instance family | GPU | vCPU | Memory（GiB） | Memory step size（GiB） |
Standalone instance family | 1（96Gx1 memory） | 2 | 2 to 16 | 1 |
4 | 4 to 32 | 1 | ||
6 | 6 to 48 | 1 | ||
8 | 8 to 64 | 1 | ||
10 | 10 to 80 | 1 | ||
12 | 12 to 96 | 1 | ||
14 | 14 to 112 | 1 | ||
16 | 16 to 128 | 1 | ||
22 | 22, 32, 64, 128 | N/A | ||
2（96Gx2 memory） | 16 | 16 to 128 | 1 | |
32 | 32, 64, 128, 230 | N/A | ||
46 | 64, 128, 230 | N/A | ||
4（96Gx4 memory） | 32 | 32, 64, 128, 256 | N/A | |
64 | 64, 128, 256, 460 | N/A | ||
92 | 128, 256, 460 | N/A | ||
8（96Gx8 memory） | 64 | 64, 128, 256, 512 | N/A | |
128 | 128, 256, 512, 920 | N/A | ||
184 | 256, 512, 920 | N/A |
After the upgrade
The specifications supported by GPU capacity reservations will be upgraded to the default maximum specifications (lower specifications will no longer be available for purchase), and will support pay-as-you-go pod specifications that are backward compatible, as shown in the following table.
Instance family | GPU capacity reservation specifications | Supported pay-as-you-go Pod specifications for deduction | ||||
GPU | vCPU | Memory（GiB） | GPU | vCPU | Memory（GiB） | |
Standalone reservation specifications | 1（96Gx1 memory） | 22 | 128 | 1（96Gx1 memory） | 2 | 2 to 16 |
4 | 4 to 32 | |||||
6 | 6 to 48 | |||||
8 | 8 to 64 | |||||
10 | 10 to 80 | |||||
12 | 12 to 96 | |||||
14 | 14 to 112 | |||||
16 | 16 to 128 | |||||
22 | 22, 32, 64, 128 | |||||
2（96Gx2 memory） | 46 | 230 | 2（96Gx2 memory） | 16 | 16 ~ 128 | |
32 | 32, 64, 128, 230 | |||||
46 | 64, 128, 230 | |||||
4（96Gx4 memory） | 92 | 460 | 4（96Gx4 memory） | 32 | 32, 64, 128, 256 | |
64 | 64, 128, 256, 460 | |||||
92 | 128, 256, 460 | |||||
8（96Gx8 memory） | 184 | 920 | 8（96Gx8 memory） | 64 | 64, 128, 256, 512 | |
128 | 128, 256, 512, 920 | |||||
184 | 256, 512, 920 | |||||
Impact scope
After the upgrade that begins on June 24, 2025, lower specifications will no longer be available for purchase in the ACS console for GPU capacity reservations in upgraded regions.
GPU capacity reservations purchased before the upgrade on June 24, 2025 will remain valid.
Recommended solutions
For more information about the new version of GPU capacity reservations, see GPU pod capacity reservations. If you have questions about the changes, you can submit a ticket.