Instance families with high clock speeds (hf series) provide CPU-to-memory ratios of 1:2, 1:4, and 1:8 and are suitable for scenarios such as massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, high-performance computing, and large- and medium-sized database systems.
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hfc9i, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses Alibaba Cloud's new CIPU architecture with performance cores (P-core) of Intel ®Xeon ®6 processor. It provides stable computing power output, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios: high network packet sending and receiving scenarios, data analysis, Batch Compute, video encoding, massively multiplayer online game (MMO) frontend, and high-performance scientific and engineering applications.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses Intel ®Xeon ®Granite Rapids processors, with a clock frequency of 3.4 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz for stable computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfc9i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfc9i.large | 2 | 4 | 2.5/15 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 4/15 | 1,200,000 | 500,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2.5/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 8/15 | 1,600,000 | 500,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 10/15 | 2,400,000 | 500,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 80,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 5/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 16/25 | 3,000,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 100,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 18/25 | 4,500,000 | 500,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfc9i.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 20/32 | 6,000,000 | 800,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000/burstable up to 250,000 | 12/15 |
ecs.hfc9i.12xlarge | 48 | 96 | 25/32 | 9,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 48 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 250,000/none | 15/none |
ecs.hfc9i.16xlarge | 64 | 128 | 36/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 360,000/none | 20/none |
ecs.hfc9i.24xlarge | 96 | 192 | 48/none | 16,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 400,000/None | 24/none |
ecs.hfc9i.36xlarge | 144 | 384 | 64/none | 20,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 500,000/none | 32/none |
hfg9i, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses Alibaba Cloud's new CIPU architecture with P-core (performance cores) of Intel ®Xeon ®6 processor. It provides stable computing power output, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios: high network packet sending and receiving scenarios, data analysis, Batch Compute, and video encoding, massively multiplayer online game (MMO) frontend, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, and medium and large databases.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses Intel ®Xeon ®Granite Rapids processors, with a clock frequency of 3.4 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz for stable computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfg9i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfg9i.large | 2 | 8 | 2.5/15 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 4/15 | 1,200,000 | 500,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2.5/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 8/15 | 1,600,000 | 500,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 10/15 | 2,400,000 | 500,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 80,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 5/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 16/25 | 3,000,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 100,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 18/25 | 4,500,000 | 500,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfg9i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 20/32 | 6,000,000 | 800,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000 /burstable up to 250,000 | 12/15 |
ecs.hfg9i.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 25/32 | 9,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 48 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 250,000/none | 15/none |
ecs.hfg9i.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 36/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 360,000/none | 20/none |
ecs.hfg9i.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 48/none | 16,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 400,000 /None | 24/none |
ecs.hfg9i.36xlarge | 144 | 768 | 64/none | 20,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 500,000/none | 32/none |
hfr9i, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses Alibaba Cloud's new CIPU architecture with P-core (performance cores) of Intel ®Xeon ®6 processor. It provides stable computing power output, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios: high-network packet sending and receiving scenarios, data analysis and mining, distributed memory caching, high-performance databases, in-memory databases, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, Hadoop and Spark clusters, and other enterprise applications that require large amounts of memory.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses Intel ®Xeon ®Granite Rapids processors, with a clock frequency of 3.4 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz for stable computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Offers burstable disk IOPS and burstable disk bandwidth for low-specification instances and provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfr9i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfr9i.large | 2 | 16 | 2.5/15 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.xlarge | 4 | 32 | 4/15 | 1,200,000 | 500,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 2.5/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.2xlarge | 8 | 64 | 8/15 | 1,600,000 | 500,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.3xlarge | 12 | 96 | 10/15 | 2,400,000 | 500,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 80,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 5/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.4xlarge | 16 | 128 | 16/25 | 3,000,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 100,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.6xlarge | 24 | 192 | 18/25 | 4,500,000 | 500,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfr9i.8xlarge | 32 | 256 | 20/32 | 6,000,000 | 800,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000/burstable up to 250,000 | 12/15 |
ecs.hfr9i.12xlarge | 48 | 384 | 25/32 | 9,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 48 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 250,000/none | 15/none |
ecs.hfr9i.16xlarge | 64 | 512 | 36/none | 12,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 360,000/none | 20/none |
ecs.hfr9i.24xlarge | 96 | 768 | 48/none | 16,000,000 | 3,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 400,000/None | 24/none |
ecs.hfr9i.36xlarge | 144 | 1536 | 64/none | 20,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 500,000/none | 32/none |
hfc8i, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance frontend server clusters
Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses the fourth-generation Intel ®Xeon ®Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) with a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz for stable computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Compatibility between Intel instance types and operating systems.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Provides disk burstable IOPS and burstable bandwidth capabilities for low-specification instances.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfc8i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfc8i.large | 2 | 4 | 2.5/15 | 1,200,000 | 300,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 30,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 3/12 |
ecs.hfc8i.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 4/15 | 1,400,000 | 300,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfc8i.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 8/15 | 1,800,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfc8i.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 10/15 | 2,800,000 | 300,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 90,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfc8i.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 16/25 | 3,600,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 10/12 |
ecs.hfc8i.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 18/25 | 5,500,000 | 800,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 200,000/none | 12/none |
ecs.hfc8i.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 32/none | 7,500,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 250,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.hfc8i.16xlarge | 64 | 128 | 64/none | 15,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 450,000 /None | 32/none |
ecs.hfc8i.32xlarge | 128 | 256 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 900,000/none | 64/none |
hfg8i, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance frontend server clusters
High-performance frontend server clusters
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Medium-sized database systems
Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses the fourth-generation Intel ®Xeon ®Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) with a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz for stable computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Compatibility between Intel instance types and operating systems.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Provides disk burstable IOPS and burstable bandwidth capabilities for low-specification instances.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports elastic RDMA interfaces (ERIs). For information about how to use ERIs, see Enable eRDMA on an enterprise-level instance.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfg8i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Attachable disks | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfg8i.large | 2 | 8 | 2.5/15 | 1,200,000 | 300,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 30,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 3/12 |
ecs.hfg8i.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 4/15 | 1,400,000 | 300,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfg8i.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 8/15 | 1,800,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfg8i.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 10/15 | 2,800,000 | 300,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 90,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfg8i.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 16/25 | 3,600,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 10/12 |
ecs.hfg8i.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 18/25 | 5,500,000 | 800,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 200,000/none | 12/none |
ecs.hfg8i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 32/none | 7,500,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 250,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.hfg8i.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 64/none | 15,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 450,000 /None | 32/none |
ecs.hfg8i.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 64 | 900,000/none | 64/none |
hfr8i, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family uses the innovative CIPU architecture developed by Alibaba Cloud to provide stable computing power, a more robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses the fourth-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors that deliver a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Is compatible with specific operating systems. For more information, see Compatibility between Intel instance types and operating systems.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.
Provides disk burstable IOPS and burstable bandwidth capabilities for low-specification instances.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Supports the Jumbo Frames feature. For more information, see Jumbo Frames.
Provides burstable network bandwidth for low-specification instances.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
Security: supports the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview.
hfr8i instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Attachable disks | Disk baseline/burst IOPS | Disk baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfr8i.large | 2 | 16 | 2.5/15 | 1,200,000 | 300,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 30,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 3/12 |
ecs.hfr8i.xlarge | 4 | 32 | 4/15 | 1,400,000 | 300,000 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 50,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 4/12 |
ecs.hfr8i.2xlarge | 8 | 64 | 8/15 | 1,800,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 60,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 6/12 |
ecs.hfr8i.3xlarge | 12 | 96 | 10/15 | 2,800,000 | 300,000 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 90,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 8/12 |
ecs.hfr8i.4xlarge | 16 | 128 | 16/25 | 3,600,000 | 500,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 16 | 120,000/burstable up to 200,000 | 10/12 |
ecs.hfr8i.6xlarge | 24 | 192 | 18/25 | 5,500,000 | 800,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 200,000/none | 12/none |
ecs.hfr8i.8xlarge | 32 | 256 | 32/none | 7,500,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 250,000/none | 16/none |
ecs.hfr8i.16xlarge | 64 | 512 | 64/none | 15,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 64 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 450,000/None | 32/none |
ecs.hfr8i.32xlarge | 128 | 1024 | 100/none | 30,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 64 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 64 | 900,000/none | 64/none |
hfc7, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance frontend server clusters
Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and a clock speed of at least 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfc7 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfc7.large | 2 | 4 | 1.2/10 | 900,000 | 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 20,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfc7.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 2/10 | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 30,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfc7.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 3/10 | 1,600,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 45,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfc7.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 4.5/10 | 2,000,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 60,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfc7.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 6/10 | 2,500,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 75,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfc7.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 8/10 | 3,000,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 90,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfc7.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 10/none | 4,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 105,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfc7.12xlarge | 48 | 96 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 150,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfc7.24xlarge | 96 | 192 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 300,000 | 16 |
hfg7, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-grade applications of various types and sizes
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
High-performance scientific computing
Video encoding applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and a clock speed of at least 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfg7 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfg7.large | 2 | 8 | 1.2/10 | 900,000 | 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 20,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfg7.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 2/10 | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 30,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfg7.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 3/10 | 1,600,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 45,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfg7.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 4.5/10 | 2,000,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 60,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfg7.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 6/10 | 2,500,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 75,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfg7.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 8/10 | 3,000,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 90,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfg7.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10/none | 4,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 105,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfg7.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 150,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfg7.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 300,000 | 16 |
hfr7, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the third-generation SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses Intel® Xeon® Cooper Lake processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz and a clock speed of at least 3.3 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
Supports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfr7 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfr7.large | 2 | 16 | 1.2/10 | 900,000 | 250,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 20,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfr7.xlarge | 4 | 32 | 2/10 | 1,000,000 | 250,000 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 30,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfr7.2xlarge | 8 | 64 | 3/10 | 1,600,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 45,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfr7.3xlarge | 12 | 96 | 4.5/10 | 2,000,000 | 250,000 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 60,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfr7.4xlarge | 16 | 128 | 6/10 | 2,500,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 75,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfr7.6xlarge | 24 | 192 | 8/10 | 3,000,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 90,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfr7.8xlarge | 32 | 256 | 10/none | 4,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 105,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfr7.12xlarge | 48 | 384 | 16/none | 6,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 24 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 150,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfr7.24xlarge | 96 | 768 | 32/none | 12,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 30 | 30 | 300,000 | 16 |
hfc6, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Web frontend servers
Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games
Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
High-performance scientific and engineering applications
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatSupports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, Regional ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfc6 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfc6.large | 2 | 4 | 1/3 | 300,000 | 35,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfc6.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 1.5/5 | 500,000 | 70,000 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfc6.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 2.5/8 | 800,000 | 150,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfc6.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 4/10 | 900,000 | 220,000 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfc6.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 5/10 | 1,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfc6.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 7.5/10 | 1,500,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 50,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfc6.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 10/none | 2,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfc6.10xlarge | 40 | 96 | 12.5/none | 3,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 100,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfc6.16xlarge | 64 | 128 | 20/none | 4,000,000 | 1,200,000 | 32 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 120,000 | 10 |
ecs.hfc6.20xlarge | 80 | 192 | 25/none | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
hfg6, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
Enterprise-grade applications of various types and sizes
Websites and application servers
Game servers
Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters
Data analytics and computing
Computing clusters and memory-intensive data processing
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatSupports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, Regional ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfg6 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfg6.large | 2 | 8 | 1/3 | 300,000 | 35,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfg6.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5/5 | 500,000 | 70,000 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfg6.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2.5/8 | 800,000 | 150,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfg6.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 4/10 | 900,000 | 220,000 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfg6.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 5/10 | 1,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfg6.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 7.5/10 | 1,500,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 50,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfg6.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 10/none | 2,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfg6.10xlarge | 40 | 192 | 12.5/none | 3,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 100,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfg6.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 20/none | 4,000,000 | 1,200,000 | 32 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 120,000 | 10 |
ecs.hfg6.20xlarge | 80 | 384 | 25/none | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
hfr6, memory-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Introduction: This instance family offloads a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware by using the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads.
Scenarios:
Large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, such as live commenting on videos and telecom data forwarding
High-performance databases and in-memory databases
Data analytics, data mining, and distributed memory caching
Enterprise-level memory-intensive applications such as Hadoop clusters and Spark clusters
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz to provide consistent computing performance.
NoteThe processors used by this instance family have a clock speed of 3.1 GHz. However, the Intel System Studio (ISS) feature may cause a lower clock speed to be displayed. Alibaba Cloud is working on this issue. This issue does not affect the actual clock speeds of your instances.
You can separately run the following commands to use the turbostat tool to view the actual clock speeds:
yum install kernel-toolsturbostatSupports Hyper-Threading. By default, Hyper-Threading is enabled. For more information, see Change CPU options.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, Regional ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.
Network:
Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.
Provides ultra-high packet forwarding rates.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfr6 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline/burst bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | Connections | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI | IPv6 addresses per ENI | Disk baseline IOPS | Disk baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
ecs.hfr6.large | 2 | 16 | 1/3 | 300,000 | 35,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10,000 | 1 |
ecs.hfr6.xlarge | 4 | 32 | 1.5/5 | 500,000 | 70,000 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 20,000 | 1.5 |
ecs.hfr6.2xlarge | 8 | 64 | 2.5/8 | 800,000 | 150,000 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 25,000 | 2 |
ecs.hfr6.3xlarge | 12 | 96 | 4/10 | 900,000 | 220,000 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30,000 | 2.5 |
ecs.hfr6.4xlarge | 16 | 128 | 5/10 | 1,000,000 | 300,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 40,000 | 3 |
ecs.hfr6.6xlarge | 24 | 192 | 7.5/10 | 1,500,000 | 450,000 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 50,000 | 4 |
ecs.hfr6.8xlarge | 32 | 256 | 10/none | 2,000,000 | 600,000 | 16 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 60,000 | 5 |
ecs.hfr6.10xlarge | 40 | 384 | 12.5/none | 3,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 32 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 100,000 | 8 |
ecs.hfr6.16xlarge | 64 | 512 | 20/none | 4,000,000 | 1,200,000 | 32 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 120,000 | 10 |
ecs.hfr6.20xlarge | 80 | 768 | 25/none | 6,000,000 | 1,800,000 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 1 | 200,000 | 16 |
hfc5, compute-optimized instance family with high clock speeds
Scenarios: High-performance frontend servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, MMO games, and video encoding.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.
Uses processors of 3.1 GHz Intel ®Xeon ®Gold 6149(Skylake) or 8269CY(Cascade Lake) to provide stable computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfc5 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.hfc5.large | 2 | 4 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.hfc5.xlarge | 4 | 8 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.2xlarge | 8 | 16 | 2 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.3xlarge | 12 | 24 | 2.5 | 1,300,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
ecs.hfc5.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | 3 | 1,600,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfc5.6xlarge | 24 | 48 | 4.5 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfc5.8xlarge | 32 | 64 | 6 | 2,500,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
hfg5, general-purpose instance family with high clock speeds
Scenarios: High-performance frontend servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, MMO games, and video encoding.
Compute:
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4 (excluding the instance type with 56 vCPUs).
Uses 3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Gold 6149 (Skylake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.
Storage:
Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.
Network:
Supports only IPv4.
Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
hfg5 instance types
Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Network baseline bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IPv4 addresses per ENI |
ecs.hfg5.large | 2 | 8 | 1 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
ecs.hfg5.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.3xlarge | 12 | 48 | 2.5 | 1,300,000 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
ecs.hfg5.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 3 | 1,600,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.6xlarge | 24 | 96 | 4.5 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 6 | 2,500,000 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
ecs.hfg5.14xlarge | 56 | 160 | 10 | 4,000,000 | 14 | 8 | 20 |