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Elastic High Performance Computing:ListPreferredEcsTypes

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2026

Queries ECS instance types recommended by E-HPC.

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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 supports 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:ListPreferredEcsTypes

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

ZoneId

string

Yes

The zone ID.

cn-hangzhou-b

SpotStrategy

string

No

The spot strategy for the ECS instance. Valid values:

  • NoSpot: pay-as-you-go instance.

  • SpotWithPriceLimit: preemptible instance with a user-defined maximum hourly price.

  • SpotAsPriceGo: preemptible instance that uses the market price as the bid price.

NoSpot

InstanceChargeType

string

No

The billing method of the ECS instances. Valid values:

  • PostPaid

  • PrePaid

PostPaid

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

SupportSpotInstance

boolean

Whether preemptible instances are supported.

true

RequestId

string

The request ID.

04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368

Series

object

SeriesInfo

array<object>

Recommended ECS instance types for each node role in the E-HPC cluster.

array<object>

Recommended ECS instance types for each node role in the E-HPC cluster.

SeriesName

string

The name of the instance series. Valid values:

  • SeriesHighCompute

  • SeriesHighMem

  • SeriesGPU

  • SeriesAll

SeriesAll

SeriesId

string

The ID of the ECS instance series. Valid values:

  • HighCompute: compute-optimized instance families

  • HighMem: memory-optimized instance families

  • GPU: GPU-accelerated instance families

  • All: all instance families

All

Roles

object

Recommended instance types for each node role in an E-HPC cluster.

Manager

object

InstanceTypeId

array

Recommended ECS instance types for management nodes.

string

Recommended ECS instance types for management nodes.

[ "ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge", "ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge", "ecs.n1.tiny" ]

Compute

object

InstanceTypeId

array

Recommended ECS instance types for compute nodes.

string

Recommended ECS instance types for compute nodes.

[ "ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge", "ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge", "ecs.n1.tiny" ]

Login

object

InstanceTypeId

array

Recommended ECS instance types for login nodes.

string

Recommended ECS instance types for login nodes.

[ "ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge", "ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge", "ecs.n1.tiny" ]

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "SupportSpotInstance": true,
  "RequestId": "04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368",
  "Series": {
    "SeriesInfo": [
      {
        "SeriesName": "SeriesAll",
        "SeriesId": "All",
        "Roles": {
          "Manager": {
            "InstanceTypeId": [
              "[ \"ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge\", \"ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge\", \"ecs.n1.tiny\" ]"
            ]
          },
          "Compute": {
            "InstanceTypeId": [
              "[ \"ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge\", \"ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge\", \"ecs.n1.tiny\" ]"
            ]
          },
          "Login": {
            "InstanceTypeId": [
              "[ \"ecs.sn1ne.2xlarge\", \"ecs.sn1ne.4xlarge\", \"ecs.n1.tiny\" ]"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

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
406 DbError A database service error occurred. Database request failed.
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.