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Elastic High Performance Computing:ListAvailableEcsTypes

Last Updated:Aug 08, 2025

You can call ListAvailableEcsTypes to query available ECS instance types.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that support authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ehpc:ListAvailableEcsTypes

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

ZoneId

string

No

The ID of the zone.

cn-hangzhou-b

SpotStrategy

string

No

The preemption policy for the ECS instance. Valid values:

  • NoSpot: The instance is a pay-as-you-go instance.

  • SpotWithPriceLimit: The instance is a spot instance with a user-defined maximum hourly price.

  • SpotAsPriceGo: The instance is a spot instance for which the system automatically bids based on the current market price.

NoSpot

InstanceChargeType

string

No

The billing method of the ECS instance. Valid values:

  • PostPaid: pay-as-you-go

  • PrePaid: subscription

PostPaid

ShowSoldOut

boolean

No

Specifies whether to display sold-out ECS instance types. Valid values:

  • false: The instance type is not sold out.

  • true: The instance type is sold out.

Default value: false.

false

Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

Example

object

SupportSpotInstance

boolean

Indicates whether spot instances are supported. Possible values:

  • false: Not supported.

  • true: Supported.

false

RequestId

string

The request ID.

D9DD3AF8-1F91-4075-8669-55D10E45****

InstanceTypeFamilies

object

InstanceTypeFamilyInfo

array<object>

The instance family to which the instance type belongs.

object

Generation

string

The generation of the instance family.

ecs-3

InstanceTypeFamilyId

string

The ID of the instance family. For more information, see Instance families.

ecs.n4

Types

object

TypesInfo

array<object>

A list of instance types.

object

Status

string

The status of the ECS instance type. Possible values:

  • SoldOut: The resource is sold out.

  • Available: The resource is available.

Available

InstanceTypeId

string

The ID of the ECS instance type.

ecs.n4.xlarge

InstanceBandwidthRx

integer

The maximum inbound internal bandwidth. Unit: kbit/s.

10240000

GPUSpec

string

The GPU type of the ECS instance.

NVIDIA V100

InstanceBandwidthTx

integer

The maximum outbound internal bandwidth. Unit: kbit/s.

10240000

InstancePpsRx

integer

The inbound packet forwarding rate over the internal network. Unit: pps.

9000000

InstancePpsTx

integer

The outbound packet forwarding rate over the internal network. Unit: pps.

9000000

GPUAmount

integer

The number of GPUs for the ECS instance.

2

CpuCoreCount

integer

The number of vCPU cores.

4

MemorySize

integer

The memory size of the ECS instance. Unit: GiB.

8

EniQuantity

integer

The maximum number of elastic network interfaces (ENIs) that can be attached to the ECS instance.

2

ZoneIds

object

ZoneId

array

A list of zone IDs.

string

The ID of the zone.

cn-hangzhou-b

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "SupportSpotInstance": false,
  "RequestId": "D9DD3AF8-1F91-4075-8669-55D10E45****",
  "InstanceTypeFamilies": {
    "InstanceTypeFamilyInfo": [
      {
        "Generation": "ecs-3",
        "InstanceTypeFamilyId": "ecs.n4",
        "Types": {
          "TypesInfo": [
            {
              "Status": "Available",
              "InstanceTypeId": "ecs.n4.xlarge",
              "InstanceBandwidthRx": 10240000,
              "GPUSpec": "NVIDIA V100",
              "InstanceBandwidthTx": 10240000,
              "InstancePpsRx": 9000000,
              "InstancePpsTx": 9000000,
              "GPUAmount": 2,
              "CpuCoreCount": 4,
              "MemorySize": 8,
              "EniQuantity": 2,
              "ZoneIds": {
                "ZoneId": [
                  "cn-hangzhou-b"
                ]
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 InvalidParams The specified parameter %s is invalid. The specified parameter %s is invalid.
500 UnknownError An unknown error occurred. An unknown error occurred.
503 ServiceUnavailable The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.
406 EcsError An error occurred while calling the ECS API operation. ECS API call error. %s
407 NotAuthorized You are not authorized by RAM for this request. The request is not authorized by RAM.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.