This topic describes the release notes for Dedicated Host (DDH) and provides links to the relevant references.
January 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
g8i | General-purpose Type g8i dedicated hosts have been released. | 2025-01-07 | All |
October 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Viewing resource information by socket | Resource information can be displayed at the socket level for dedicated hosts on the DDH product page. This facilitates checking the remaining compute resources (such as vCPU or memory) and determining whether it is feasible to create an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance with the desired specifications on a dedicated host. | 2024-10-20 | All |
November 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Auto-renewal | Subscription dedicated hosts can be automatically renewed together with subscription ECS instances. | 2023-11-10 | All |
October 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
g7s and r7s | General-overprovisioned Type g7s and Memory-overprovisioned Type r7s dedicated hosts have been released. | 2023-10-23 | All |
July 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
g6e, r6e, and c6e | Enhanced General Purpose Type g6e, Enhanced Memory Optimized Type r6e, and Enhanced Compute Type c6e dedicated hosts have been released. | 2022-07-08 | All |
October 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
r7t, g7t, and c7t | Security-enhanced Memory Optimized Type r7t, Security-enhanced General Purpose Type g7t, and Security-enhanced Compute Optimized Type c7t dedicated hosts equipped with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX) have been released for encrypted computing scenarios. | 2021-10-14 | Some regions |
July 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Migration of a dedicated host with hidden failure risks | Dedicated hosts with hidden failure risks can be migrated to another dedicated host to protect your services. | 2020-07-29 | All | |
Export of the dedicated host information | The information about all dedicated hosts in a region can be exported to your local computer for backup or saved as a report for query. | 2020-07-29 | All |
May 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
g6s, c6s, and r6s | General Overprovisioned Type g6s, Computation Overprovisioned Type c6s, and Memory Overprovisioned Type r6s dedicated hosts have been released. The vCPU-to-memory ratio of these dedicated hosts can be customized. As a result, computing resources can be flexibly allocated when ECS instances are created. | 2020-05-12 | All |
August 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Upgrade and downgrade of ECS instances | The specifications and public bandwidth of an ECS instance on a dedicated host can be changed. | 2019-08-15 | All |
July 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
v5 | CPU-overprovisioned Type v5 dedicated hosts have been released for applications with low CPU utilization and scenarios involving the migration of virtualized environments (such as OpenStack or KVM) from physical data centers to the cloud. As a result, the deployment costs of a single ECS instance are reduced. | 2019-07-24 | All |
May 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Automatic deployment of ECS instances | Automatic deployment is supported to eliminate the need to specify a dedicated host when creating an ECS instance. Instead, the system automatically selects a dedicated host that meets the requirements. | 2019-05-13 | All |
November 2018
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
First release of DDH | DDH is a specialized solution developed by Alibaba Cloud for enterprise users. DDH can effectively reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for migrating services to the cloud. | 2018-11-15 | All |