Elastic Compute Service:Retired ECS instance types

• Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Large-scale machine learning training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.4.

  • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

• Network:

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

  • Supports both RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) networks and virtual private clouds (VPCs). RoCE networks are dedicated to Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) communication.

scchfc6 instance types

• Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Large-scale machine learning training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.8.

  • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

• Network:

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

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.

scchfg6 instance types

• Introduction: This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Overview of ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Large-scale machine learning training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:9.6.

  • Uses 3.1 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269 (Cascade Lake) processors that deliver an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSDs, and ultra disks. For information about disks, see Overview of Block Storage.

• Network:

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

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.

scchfr6 instance types

• Introduction:

  • This instance family uses the third-generation SHENLONG architecture and fast path acceleration on chips to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high computing, storage, and network performance.

  • This instance family uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs to offer GPU acceleration capabilities for graphics and AI applications and adopts container technology to start at least 60 virtual Android devices and provide hardware-accelerated video transcoding.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Remote application services based on Android, such as always-on cloud-based services, cloud-based mobile games, cloud-based mobile phones, and Android service crawlers.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.

  • Uses 2.8 GHz Ampere^® Altra^® Arm-based processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz and provides high performance and high compatibility with applications for Android servers.

• 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.

• Network:

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

ebmgn6ia instance types

Features:

• g5se instances can be created only on dedicated hosts.

  Note

  For information about instances of other instance types that can be created on dedicated hosts, see Dedicated host types.

• A single g5se instance to which ESSDs are attached can deliver up to 1,000,000 random IOPS and up to 32 Gbit/s of sequential read/write throughput.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

  • Provides high storage I/O performance based on large computing capacity.

    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.

• Supported scenarios:

  • I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized online transaction processing (OLTP) core databases

  • Large and medium-sized NoSQL databases

  • Search and real-time log analytics

  • Traditional large enterprise-level commercial software such as SAP

g5se instance types

Features:

• Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

• Uses 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or E5-2680 v3 (Haswell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

  Note

  Instances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the g6, g6e, or g7 instance family.

• Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Enterprise-level applications of various types and sizes

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

  • Data analytics and computing

sn2 instance types

Features:

• Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

• Uses 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) or E5-2680 v3 (Haswell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

  Note

  Instances of this instance family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires all instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use the c6, c6e, or c7 instance family.

• Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Web frontend servers

  • Frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games

  • Data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding

  • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

sn1 instance types

Features:

• Use 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 (Broadwell) processors.

• Offer consistent computing performance.

• Are instance families in which all instances are I/O optimized.

• Support standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Provide high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • High-performance web frontend servers

  • High-performance scientific and engineering applications

  • MMO games and video encoding

c4 instance types

ce4 instance types

cm4 instance types

Features:

• This instance family uses Xilinx 16 nm Virtex UltraScale+ VU9P FPGAs.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Deep learning inference

  • Genomics research

  • Database acceleration

  • Image transcoding such as conversion of JPEG images to WebP images

  • Real-time video processing such as H.265 video compression

f3 instance types

Features:

• Compute:

  • Uses NVIDIA T4 GPUs.

  • Uses vGPUs.

    • Supports the 1/4 and 1/2 compute capacity of NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs.

    • Supports 4 GB and 8 GB of GPU memory.

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:5.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Real-time rendering for cloud gaming

  • Real-time rendering for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications

  • AI (deep learning and machine learning) inference for elastic Internet service deployment

  • Educational environment of deep learning

  • Modeling experiment environment of deep learning

vgn6i instance types

Features:

• Compute:

  • Uses NVIDIA P4 GPUs.

  • Uses vGPUs.

    • Supports the 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, and 1/1 compute capacity of NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs.

    • Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB of GPU memory.

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:3.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Real-time rendering for cloud gaming

  • Real-time rendering for AR and VR applications

  • AI (deep learning and machine learning) inference for elastic Internet service deployment

  • Educational environment of deep learning

  • Modeling experiment environment of deep learning

vgn5i instance types

Features:

• Uses NVIDIA M40 GPUs.

• Compute:

  • Offers multiple CPU-to-memory ratios.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Deep learning

  • Scientific computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, genomics, and environmental analytics

  • Server-side GPU compute workloads such as high-performance computing, rendering, and multi-media encoding and decoding

gn4 instance types

Features:

• Uses AMD S7150 GPUs.

• Supports high-performance local Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSDs.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.5.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Rendering and multi-media encoding and decoding

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

  • Server-side workloads that require powerful parallel floating-point computing capacity

ga1 instance types

Features:

• Provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:2.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Network:

  • Supports only VPCs.

  • Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 4,000,000 pps.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware

  • Scenarios that require compatibility with third-party hypervisors to implement hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments

  • Containers such as Docker, Clear Containers, and Pouch

  • Enterprise-level applications such as large and medium-sized databases

  • Video encoding

ebmc4 instance types

Features:

• Provides dedicated hardware resources and physical isolation.

• Supports encrypted computing based on Intel^® Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

• Has failover disabled by default.

  You can call the ModifyInstanceMaintenanceAttributes operation to modify the maintenance action and set the ActionOnMaintenance parameter to AutoRedeploy to enable failover.

• Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

• Uses 3.7 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E3-1240v6 (Skylake) processors that deliver a turbo frequency of 4.1 GHz.

• Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

• Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Supports only VPCs.

• Provides high network performance with a packet forwarding rate of 2,000,000 pps.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Workloads that require direct access to physical resources or that require a license to be bound to the hardware

  • Gaming and finance applications that require high performance

  • High-performance web servers

  • Enterprise-level applications such as high-performance databases

ebmhfg5 instance types

Features:

• This instance family supports all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 16 GB of HBM2 GPU memory

    • CUDA Cores 5120

    • Tensor Cores 640

    • GPU memory bandwidth of up to 900 GB/s

    • Support for up to six bidirectional NVLink connections, each of which has a unidirectional bandwidth of 25 GB/s for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

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

  • Supports high-performance Cloud Paralleled File System (CPFS).

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Supports VPCs.

  • Supports RoCE v2 networks, which are dedicated to low-latency RDMA communication.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Ultra-large-scale training for machine learning on distributed GPU clusters

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

sccgn6 instance types

Features:

• This instance family supports all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • Uses GPUs that have the following features:

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 32 GB of HBM2 GPU memory

    • CUDA Cores 5120

    • Tensor Cores 640

    • GPU memory bandwidth of up to 900 GB/s

    • Support for up to six bidirectional NVLink connections, each of which has a unidirectional bandwidth of 25 GB/s for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:8.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

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

  • Supports high-performance CPFS.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Supports VPCs.

  • Supports RoCE v2 networks, which are dedicated to low-latency RDMA communication.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Ultra-large-scale training for machine learning on distributed GPU clusters

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

sccgn6e instance types

Features:

• This instance family supports all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see ECS Bare Metal Instance families.

• Compute:

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (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.

• Network:

  • Supports both RoCE networks and VPCs. RoCE networks are dedicated to RDMA communication.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Large-scale machine learning training

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

sccg5 instance types

Features:

• This instance family provides all features of ECS Bare Metal Instance.

• Compute:

  • Uses NVIDIA V100 GPUs (SXM2-based) that have the following features:

    • Innovative Volta architecture

    • 32 GB of HBM2 GPU memory

    • CUDA Cores 5120

    • Tensor Cores 640

    • GPU memory bandwidth of up to 900 GB/s

    • Support for up to six bidirectional NVLink connections, each of which has a unidirectional bandwidth of 25 GB/s for a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s

  • Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Uses 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors to provide consistent computing performance.

• Storage:

  • Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.

  • Supports ESSDs, standard SSDs, and ultra disks.

  • Supports high-performance CPFS.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv6.

  • Supports VPCs.

  • Supports RoCE v2 networks, which are dedicated to low-latency RDMA communication.

• Supported scenarios:

  • Ultra-large-scale training for machine learning on distributed GPU clusters

  • Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulations

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

sccgn6ne instance types

Features:

• Use 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 (Haswell) or Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processors.

• Are instance families in which all instances are I/O optimized.

• Support standard SSDs and ultra disks.

• Provide high network performance based on large computing capacity.

n1 instance types

n2 instance types

e3 instance types

Features:

• Use Intel Xeon E5-2420 processors with clock speeds of no less than 1.9 GHz.

• Use the latest DDR3 memory.

• Are instance families in which instances can be I/O optimized or non-I/O optimized.

I/O optimized instance types support standard SSDs and ultra disks. The following table describes the instance types and the specifications of the instance types.

Non-I/O optimized instance types support only basic disks. The following table describes the instance types and the specifications of the instance types.