Elastic Compute Service:Retired ECS instance types

• Instance family overview: Includes all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance specifications.

• Use cases: Large-scale machine learning training, high-performance scientific computing and simulation, data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding.

• Compute:

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.4.

  • Processor: 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake), with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • I/O-optimized instance.

  • Supported cloud disks: ESSD, ESSD AutoPL, Standard SSD, and Ultra Disk. For more information about cloud disks, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. The RoCE network is used for RDMA communication.

The following table lists the instance types and specifications of the scchfc6 instance family.

• Instance family overview: Offers all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance specifications.

• Use cases: Large-scale machine learning training, high-performance scientific computing and simulation, data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding.

• Compute:

  • Features a vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.8.

  • Processor: 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake), with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance.

  • Supported cloud disk types: ESSD, ESSD AutoPL disk, standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • Supports both the RoCE network and VPC. The RoCE network is dedicated to RDMA communication.

The following table lists the specifications for the scchfg6 instance family.

• Instance family overview: Provides all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance specifications.

• Use cases: Large-scale machine learning training; large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulation; large-scale data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding.

• Compute:

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:9.6.

  • Processor: 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance.

  • Supported disk types: ESSD, ESSD AutoPL disk, Standard SSD, and Ultra Disk. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. The RoCE network is dedicated to RDMA communication.

The following table lists the instance types and key metrics of the scchfr6 instance family.

• Instance family overview:

  • Powered by the third-generation X-Dragon architecture and chip-level fast-path acceleration, this instance family delivers stable, predictable, ultra-high performance in compute, storage, and networking.

  • These instances use NVIDIA T4 GPUs to accelerate graphics and AI workloads. Combined with container technology, they can host over 60 virtual Android terminals, providing hardware-accelerated video transcoding for each display.

• Use cases:

  • Providing remote app services based on Android, such as always-on cloud applications, cloud gaming, cloud phones, and Android-based web crawlers.

• Compute:

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio of approximately 1:3.

  • Processor: 2.8 GHz Ampere^® Altra^® processor with a turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz. The native Arm compute platform provides efficient performance and excellent app compatibility for Android servers.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disk, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disk, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

The following table describes the instance types and key metrics of the ebmgn6ia instance family.

g5se instances have the following features:

• g5se instances are available only on Dedicated Hosts.

  Note

  For other instance types available on Dedicated Hosts, see Instance types.

• With an attached ESSD, a single instance delivers up to 1,000,000 IOPS for random read/write operations and up to 32 Gbit/s for sequential read/write throughput.

• Compute:

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake)

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance

  • Supports ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

  • Instance types with higher specifications deliver better storage I/O performance.

    Note

    For information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation, enterprise-level instance families, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6

• Use cases:

  • I/O-intensive workloads, such as medium- to large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) core databases

  • Medium- to large-scale NoSQL databases

  • Search and real-time log analytics

  • Large-scale enterprise applications, such as SAP

The following table lists the instance types and specifications of the g5se instance family.

sn2 instances provide the following features:

• vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

• Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), E5-2680 v3 (Haswell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver stable computing performance.

  Note

  Instances of this family can run on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to run on the same server platform, use g6, g6e, or g7 instances.

• An instance's network performance is proportional to its specifications.

• Use cases:

  • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Data analytics and computing.

The table below lists the instance types and key metrics for the sn2 instance family.

The sn1 instance family offers the following features:

• A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

• Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), E5-2680 v3 (Haswell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor, delivering stable computing performance.

  Note

  These instances can run on different server platforms. If you require all instances to be on the same server platform, use c6, c6e, or c7 instances instead.

• Larger instance types deliver better network performance.

• Use cases:

  • Web frontend servers

  • Frontend servers for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games

  • Data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding

  • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

The following table lists the instance types and specifications for the sn1 instance family.

The c4, ce4, and cm4 instance families include the following features:

• Powered by 3.2 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2667 v4 (Broadwell) processors.

• Stable computing performance.

• I/O optimized instances.

• Support for only standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network performance scales with instance size.

• Use cases:

  • High-performance web front-end servers

  • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

  • Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games and video encoding

The following table lists the specifications for the c4 instance family.

The following table lists the specifications for the ce4 instance family.

The following table lists the specifications for the cm4 instance family.

The vgn6i instance family provides the following features:

• Compute:

  • Uses NVIDIA T4 GPU accelerators.

  • Instances include vGPUs created by partitioning a physical GPU.

    • vGPUs provide 1/4 or 1/2 of the computing power of a physical NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU.

    • This provides 4 GB and 8 GB of GPU memory, respectively.

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of approximately 1:5.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake).

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance.

  • Supports only SSD cloud disks and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Network performance improves with larger instance types.

• Use cases:

  • Real-time rendering for cloud gaming.

  • Real-time cloud rendering for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

  • Deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) inference, ideal for elastically scaling internet applications.

  • Deep learning training and educational environments.

  • Deep learning model experimentation.

The following table lists the instance types and specifications of the vgn6i family.

• Scenarios:

  • Deep learning.

  • Scientific computing, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, genomics research, and environmental analysis.

  • High-performance computing (HPC), rendering, multimedia encoding and decoding, and other server-side GPU compute workloads.

• Compute:

  • Features NVIDIA P100 GPUs.

  • Offers multiple processor-to-memory ratios.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel ^® Xeon ^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell).

• Storage:

  • Equipped with high-performance NVMe SSD local disks.

  • I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported cloud disk types: SSD cloud disks and Ultra Disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv4 only.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

The gn5 family includes the following instance types:

• Scenarios: Ideal for server-side GPU computing workloads such as deep learning inference and multimedia encoding and decoding.

• Compute:

  • Powered by NVIDIA P4 GPUs.

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell).

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported cloud disk types: SSD cloud disks and ultra cloud disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For more information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

The gn5i instance family includes the following instance types and specifications:

The vgn5i instance family offers the following features:

• Compute:

  • Powered by NVIDIA P4 GPU accelerators.

  • Instances include vGPUs created through GPU slicing.

    • vGPUs provide 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, or the full computing power of a single NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPU.

    • vGPUs are available with 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, or 8 GB of GPU memory.

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell).

• Storage:

  • I/O-optimized instance.

  • Supports only SSD cloud disks and Ultra Disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Network performance scales with the instance size.

• Use cases:

  • Real-time cloud rendering for gaming.

  • Real-time cloud rendering for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

  • AI inference for deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML), ideal for elastically scaling internet applications with AI capabilities.

  • Deep learning training and educational environments.

  • Deep learning model experimentation.

The following table lists the specifications for the vgn5i instance family.

The gn4 instance family provides the following features:

• Powered by NVIDIA M40 GPUs

• Compute:

  • Various vCPU-to-memory ratios

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell)

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance

  • Supports only Standard SSD and Ultra Disk

• Network:

  • Larger instance types provide higher network performance.

• Use cases:

  • Deep learning

  • Scientific computing, including computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, genomics research, and environmental analysis

  • High-performance computing, rendering, multimedia encoding and decoding, and other server-side GPU computing workloads

The following table describes the instance types and specifications of the gn4 instance family.

The ga1 instance family provides the following features:

• Powered by AMD S7150 GPU cards.

• Features high-performance NVMe SSD local disks.

• Compute:

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.5.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell).

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instances.

  • Supports only Standard SSD and Ultra Disk.

• Network:

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

• Use cases:

  • Rendering and multimedia encoding/decoding.

  • Machine learning, high-performance computing, and high-performance databases.

  • Other server-side workloads requiring powerful parallel floating-point computing capabilities.

The following table lists the specifications of the ga1 instance types.

The ebmc4 instance family offers the following features:

• Dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation

• Compute

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) with a turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz

• Storage

  • All instances in this family are I/O optimized.

  • Supports only SSD cloud disks and Ultra Disks.

• Network

  • Supports only VPCs.

  • A high packet forwarding rate of 4,000,000 PPS

• Use cases

  • Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or need to be bound to specific hardware for licensing purposes

  • Compatibility with third-party hypervisors to support hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments

  • Containers, such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch

  • Heavy-duty database applications for medium- to large-scale enterprises

  • Video encoding

The following table lists the instance types and specifications of the ebmc4 instance family.

The ebmhfg5 instance family provides the following features:

• Dedicated hardware and physical isolation

• Supports Intel^® SGX encrypted computing

• Failover is disabled by default.

  You can call the ModifyInstanceMaintenanceAttributes API to change the maintenance action. To enable failover, set the ActionOnMaintenance parameter to AutoRedeploy.

• A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4

• Processor: 3.7 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E3-1240v6 (Skylake) with a turbo frequency of 4.1 GHz

• All instances are I/O-optimized.

• Supports only standard SSDs and ultra disks

• Supports only VPCs

• High network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 2,000,000 PPS

• Use cases:

  • Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or hardware-specific licensing

  • High-performance applications, such as gaming and finance

  • High-performance web servers

  • Enterprise-level applications, such as high-performance databases

The following table lists the specifications for the ebmhfg5 instance family.

The sccgn6 instance family includes the following features:

• Includes all features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • GPU accelerator: NVIDIA V100 (SXM2-based)

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 16 GB HBM2 GPU memory

    • 5,120 CUDA Cores

    • 640 Tensor Cores

    • 900 GB/s GPU memory bandwidth

    • Each GPU supports six bidirectional NVLink links, each providing 25 GB/s of bandwidth in a single direction for a total of 300 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth.

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake)

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance

  • Supports only ESSD cloud disk, ESSD AutoPL cloud disk, Standard SSD, and Ultra Disk.

  • Supports high-performance CPFS.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Supports VPCs.

  • Enables low-latency RDMA communication through RoCE v2 networks.

• Use cases:

  • Training for ultra-large-scale machine learning clusters

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulation

  • Large-scale data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding

The following table describes the instance types and key metrics for the sccgn6 instance family.

The sccgn6e instance family offers the following features:

• Includes all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • GPU accelerator:

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 32 GB of HBM2 GPU memory

    • 5,120 CUDA Cores

    • 640 Tensor Cores

    • 900 GB/s GPU memory bandwidth

    • A single GPU supports six bidirectional NVLink links, each with a unidirectional bandwidth of 25 GB/s, for a total bidirectional bandwidth of 300 GB/s.

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake)

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance

  • Supports only ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks

  • Supports CPFS

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6

  • Supports VPCs

  • Supports RoCE v2 networks for low-latency RDMA.

• Use cases:

  • Ultra-large-scale machine learning cluster training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulation

  • Large-scale data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding

The following table lists the specifications of the sccgn6e instance family.

The sccg5 instance family includes the following features:

• Includes all features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processor with stable computing performance.

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instances.

  • Supports only Standard SSD and Ultra Disk.

• Network:

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. The RoCE network is dedicated to RDMA communication.

• Use cases:

  • Large-scale machine learning training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific and simulation computing

  • Large-scale data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding

The following table describes the instance types and specifications of the sccg5 instance family.

• Instance family overview: Includes all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance specifications.

• Use cases: Large-scale applications, including machine learning training, high-performance scientific computing and simulation, data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding.

• Compute:

  • vCPU-to-memory ratio: 1:3

  • Processor: 3.1 GHz Intel ^® Xeon ^® Gold 6149 (Skylake)

• Storage:

  • I/O-optimized instance

  • Supported cloud disk types: Standard SSD and Ultra Disk.

• Network:

  • Supports only IPv4.

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. The RoCE network provides dedicated RDMA communication.

The following table lists the specifications for the scch5 instance family.

The sccgn6ne instance family offers the following features:

• Provides all the features of an ECS Bare Metal Instance.

• Compute:

  • GPU accelerator: V100 (SXM2 form factor)

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 32 GB of HBM2 GPU memory

    • 5,120 CUDA Cores

    • 640 Tensor Cores

    • 900 GB/s GPU memory bandwidth

    • Six NVLink links at 25 GB/s each, for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s.

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake).

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance

  • Support for ESSDs, Standard SSDs, and Ultra Disks.

  • Support for the high-performance Cloud Paralleled File System (CPFS).

• Network:

  • Support for IPv6.

  • Support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

  • Support for RoCE v2.

• Use cases:

  • Ultra-large-scale machine learning cluster training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific and simulation computing

  • Large-scale data analytics, batch computing, and video encoding

The following table lists the specifications of the sccgn6ne instance family.

• Instance family overview: Equipped with high-capacity, high-throughput SATA HDD local disks, d1 instances provide up to 17 Gbit/s of inter-instance network bandwidth.

• Use cases:

  • Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, and HBase.

  • Spark in-memory computing and MLlib.

  • Large-scale data storage and analytics for data-intensive industries, such as the internet and finance.

  • Elasticsearch and log processing.

• Compute:

  • A 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio makes these instances ideal for big data applications.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake).

• Storage:

  • I/O optimized instance.

  • Supported cloud disk types: standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Supports only IPv4.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The following table lists the specifications for the d1 instance family.

• Instance family overview: Equipped with high-performance NVMe SSD local disks for high IOPS, high throughput, and low latency.

• Use cases: OLTP, high-performance relational databases, NoSQL databases (such as Cassandra and MongoDB), and search applications such as Elasticsearch.

• Compute:

  • A vCPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, designed for workloads such as high-performance databases.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake), which provides stable compute performance.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported cloud disk types: Standard SSD and Ultra Disk.

• Network:

  • Supports only IPv4.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

i1 instance types and metrics are listed in the following table:

The n1, n2, and e3 shared instances have the following features:

• They use a 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® E5-2680 v3 (Haswell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor.

• All are I/O optimized instances.

• They support both SSD cloud disks and ultra cloud disks.

• Network performance improves with larger instance types.

Instance types and specifications for the n1 instance family:

Instance types and specifications for the n2 instance family:

Instance types and specifications for the e3 instance family:

Series I instance types offer the following features:

• Intel Xeon E5-2420 processors with a clock speed of at least 1.9 GHz

• DDR3 memory

• I/O optimized and non-I/O optimized options

I/O optimized instance types support SSD cloud disk and ultra disk. The following table describes the instance types and key metrics.

Non-I/O optimized instance types support only basic disk. The following table describes the instance types and key metrics.