Public images are clean operating system images provided by Alibaba Cloud, and include specific clean operating system images published by Alibaba Cloud or independent software vendors (ISVs) in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. Public images are fully licensed to provide a secure and stable runtime environment for applications on Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. This topic describes the types of public images including Alibaba Cloud Linux images, third-party images, and open-source images.
Types of public images
The following table describes two types of public images provided by Alibaba Cloud.
You can use public images to create ECS instances free of charge, except Windows Server,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server public images. For more
information about billing details, see Image prices.
| Type | Description | Technical support |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Linux images | Alibaba Cloud Linux images are custom, proprietary operating systems provided by Alibaba Cloud to create ECS instances. Alibaba Cloud Linux images are fully tested to ensure their security, stability, and normal startup and operation. | Alibaba Cloud provides technical support to help resolve the issues that you may encounter when you use Alibaba Cloud Linux images. |
| Third-party images and open-source images | Third-party and open source images are fully tested and released by Alibaba Cloud
to ensure their security, stability, and normal startup and operation. The following
third-party public images are available:
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We recommend that you contact corresponding operating system vendors or open source communities for technical support. Alibaba Cloud also provides information about image- and system-related issues. |
Alibaba Cloud Linux images
Alibaba Cloud Linux images are Linux public images developed by Alibaba Cloud. The
following table describes the versions of Alibaba Cloud Linux images.
| Operating system | Operating system version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 |
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The operating system supports various Alibaba Cloud instance types including ECS Bare Metal Instance types. By default, Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 is equipped with Alibaba Cloud CLI and other software packages. If you want to use Alibaba Cloud Linux 3, you can select Public Image and select Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 when you create an ECS instance or when you replace the operating system of an ECS instance. For information about how to replace the operating system of an instance, see Replace the operating system (system disk) of an instance. For more information, see Alibaba Cloud Linux overview and Release notes for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3. |
| Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 |
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The operating system supports various Alibaba Cloud instance types including ECS Bare Metal Instance types. By default, Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 is equipped with Alibaba Cloud CLI and other software packages. If you want to use Alibaba Cloud Linux 2, you can select Public Image and select Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 when you create an ECS instance or when you replace the operating system of an ECS instance. For information about how to replace the operating system of an instance, see Replace the operating system (system disk) of an instance. For more information, see Overview and Release notes for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2. |
Third-party images and open-source images
Alibaba Cloud releases and updates public images of third-party and open source image vendors on a regular basis. For more information, see Release notes for 2022. Alternatively, you can select a region in the ECS console and view all the public images available in that region on the Public Images tab. For more information, see Find an image.
The following tables describe the versions of third-party and open source public images
for Windows and Linux provided by Alibaba Cloud.
- Windows images
Operating system Operating system version Windows Server 2022 - Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 64-bit (English)
- Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese, Without UI)
- Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 64-bit (English, Without UI)
Windows Server 2019 - Windows Server 2019 Datacenter with Containers 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter with Containers 64-bit (English)
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2019 Datacenter 64-bit (English)
Windows Server 2016 - Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 64-bit (English)
Windows Server 2012 - Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter 64-bit (English)
Windows Server 2008 - Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit (Simplified Chinese)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition 64-bit (English)
Note On January 14, 2020, Microsoft stopped providing support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. In light of this, Alibaba Cloud no longer provides technical support for ECS instances that use these operating systems. If you have ECS instances that use these operating systems, upgrade them to Windows Server 2012 or later at your earliest opportunity.Windows Server Version 2004 - Windows Server Version 2004 Datacenter 64-bit (Simplified Chinese, Without UI)
- Windows Server Version 2004 Datacenter 64-bit (English, Without UI)
- Windows Server Version 2004 Datacenter with Containers 64-bit (Simplified Chinese, Without UI)
- Windows Server Version 2004 Datacenter with Containers 64-bit (English, Without UI)
Note All Windows operating systems support visualization except for Windows Server Version 2004 **** (Without UI) and Windows Server 2022 Datacenter **** (Without UI). - Linux images
Operating system Operating system version Anolis OS - Anolis OS 8.6 ANCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.6 RHCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.6 ANCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 8.6 RHCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 8.6 ANCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 8.6 RHCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 8.4 ANCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.4 RHCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.4 ANCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 8.4 RHCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 8.4 ANCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 8.4 RHCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 8.2 ANCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.2 RHCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 8.2 ANCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 8.2 RHCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 7.9 ANCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 7.9 RHCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 7.9 ANCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 7.9 RHCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 7.9 ANCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 7.9 RHCK 64-bit (UEFI)
- Anolis OS 7.7 ANCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 7.7 RHCK 64-bit
- Anolis OS 7.7 ANCK 64-bit for ARM
- Anolis OS 7.7 RHCK 64-bit for ARM
CentOS Note- The CentOS project has announced the end of life (EOL) for CentOS Linux. CentOS Linux public images provided by Alibaba Cloud are derived from the repositories provided by the CentOS project. When CentOS Linux reaches its EOL, Alibaba Cloud stops providing support for CentOS Linux. For information about how to deal with the situation, see Options for dealing with CentOS Linux end of life .
- CentOS 6 and CentOS 8 have reached their EOL. In accordance with Linux community rules, all content has been removed from the CentOS 6 and CentOS 8 repository addresses. If you want to continue to use specific installation packages of CentOS 6 and CentOS 8 during the transition period, you must change CentOS 6 and CentOS 8 repository addresses. For more information, see the Change the CentOS 6 source address and Change CentOS 8 repository addresses .
- To use a 32-bit operating system, select an instance type that has 4 GiB or less of memory. For more information, see Select an image.
- CentOS 8.5 64-bit
- CentOS 8.4 64-bit
- CentOS 8.4 64-bit for ARM
- CentOS 8.4 64-bit (UEFI)
- CentOS 8.3 64-bit
- CentOS 8.3 64-bit for ARM
- CentOS 8.3 64-bit (UEFI)
- CentOS 8.2 64-bit
- CentOS 8.2 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- CentOS 8.1 64-bit
- CentOS 8.0 64-bit
- CentOS 7.9 64-bit
- CentOS 7.9 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- CentOS 7.9 64-bit (UEFI)
- CentOS 7.8 64-bit
- CentOS 7.8 64-bit (Trusted)
- CentOS 7.8 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- CentOS 7.7 64-bit
- CentOS 7.6 64-bit
- CentOS 7.5 64-bit
- CentOS 7.4 64-bit
- CentOS 7.3 64-bit
- CentOS 7.2 64-bit
- CentOS 6.10 64-bit
- CentOS 6.9 64-bit
- CentOS 6.8 32-bit
CentOS Stream - CentOS Stream 9 64-bit
- CentOS Stream 8 64-bit
CoreOS Note Updates are no longer provided for CoreOS Container Linux as of May 26, 2020 based on the end-of-life announcement for CoreOS Container Linux from the Fedora CoreOS community. In light of this, Alibaba Cloud has issued the following announcements:- As of May 26, 2020, Alibaba Cloud no longer provides technical support for ECS instances that use the CoreOS Container Linux operating system. However, you can still use existing ECS instances that run this operating system.
- After September 30, 2020, you are unable to use CoreOS Container Linux public images provided by Alibaba Cloud to create ECS instances.
- As of May 26, 2020, CoreOS Container Linux can continue to be used on instances on which it is already installed. However, no security patches are available because the operating system has reached its end of life. For security purposes, we recommend that you no longer use CoreOS Container Linux images.
- Alibaba Cloud has released Fedora CoreOS public images. The Fedora CoreOS community recommends that you use Fedora CoreOS in place of CoreOS Container Linux.
- CoreOS 2345.3.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2303.4.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2303.3.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2247.6.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 2023.4.0 64-bit
- CoreOS 1745.7.0 64-bit
Debian - Debian 11.5 for ARM
- Debian 11.4 64-bit
- Debian 11.3 64-bit
- Debian 11.2 64-bit
- Debian 11.1 64-bit
- Debian 11.0 64-bit
- Debian 10.13 for ARM
- Debian 10.12 64-bit
- Debian 10.11 64-bit
- Debian 10.10 64-bit
- Debian 10.10 64-bit (UEFI)
- Debian 10.9 64-bit
- Debian 10.9 64-bit for ARM
- Debian 10.7 64-bit
- Debian 10.7 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- Debian 10.6 64-bit
- Debian 10.5 64-bit
- Debian 10.4 64-bit
- Debian 10.3 64-bit
- Debian 10.2 64-bit
- Debian 9.13 64-bit
- Debian 9.13 64-bit (UEFI)
- Debian 9.12 64-bit
- Debian 9.11 64-bit
- Debian 9.9 64-bit
- Debian 9.8 64-bit
- Debian 9.6 64-bit
- Debian 8.11 64-bit
- Debian 8.9 64-bit
FreeBSD - FreeBSD 13.0 64-bit
- FreeBSD 12.3 64-bit
- FreeBSD 12.1 64-bit
- FreeBSD 11.4 64-bit
- FreeBSD 11.3 64-bit
- FreeBSD 11.2 64-bit
OpenSUSE - OpenSUSE 15.4 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 15.3 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 15.2 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 15.1 64-bit
- OpenSUSE 42.3 64-bit
Red Hat Note- When you create instances, Red Hat image versions are available only if you select an instance type from an instance family that is certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For information about instance families that are certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see Instance families supported by Red Hat images .
- The prices of Red Hat Enterprise Linux images vary based on the instance types that you select. For information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux image prices, see Images.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 64-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 64-bit
SUSE Linux - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 64-bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 64-bit
Note Starting from October 30, 2021, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server public images are charged. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will be commercialized on October 30, 2021. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server images used by existing instances can be upgraded to commercial versions to continue to receive image updates and technical support. For more information, see Upgrade the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server public images of existing instances to the commercial edition .Ubuntu - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit
- Ubuntu: 20.04 LTS 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit for ARM
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit (UEFI)
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (AMD-compatible)
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit for ARM
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (UEFI)
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 32 bit
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32 bit
Note To use a 32-bit operating system, select an instance type that has 4 GiB or less of memory. For more information, see Select an image.Fedora CoreOS - Fedora CoreOS 35 64-bit
- Fedora CoreOS 34 64-bit
- Fedora CoreOS 33 64-bit
- When you create an instance or replace the system disk of an instance, you can use only a key pair as logon credentials. You can use only the key pair that you initially configured for your instance to log on to the instance. You cannot change or unbind the key pair.
- If you have created an instance or replaced the system disk of an instance, you cannot reset the password of the instance.
Fedora - Fedora 35 64-bit
- Fedora 34 64-bit
- Fedora 33 64-bit
Rocky Linux - Rocky Linux 9.0
- Rocky Linux 8.6
- Rocky Linux 8.5
AlmaLinux - AlmaLinux 9.0
- AlmaLinux 8.6
- AlmaLinux 8.5
Note By default, each Linux image offers a command line interface. You can install a graphical desktop based on your needs. Example: the desktop described in Install a GUI desktop for Ubuntu 18 .