This topic describes all retired instance types on the China site (aliyun.com). However, the sn1, sn2, n1, n2, and e3 instance types are still available for purchase on the International site (alibabacloud.com).
- g5se, storage-enhanced instance family
- sn2, general-purpose instance family
- sn1, compute-optimized instance family
- c4, ce4, and cm4, compute-optimized instance families with high clock speeds
- gn4, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
- ga1, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
- ebmhfg5, ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
- sccgn6ne, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized SCC instance family
- n1, n2, and e3, shared instance families
- Generation I instance families
Instance type change
If you are using a retired instance type, we recommend that you change it to another instance type that is available for purchase. For more information about the changes between instance types, see Instance families that support instance type changes.
g5se, storage-enhanced instance family
Features:
- g5se instances can be created only on dedicated hosts.
Note For more information about instances of other instance types that can be created on dedicated hosts, see
Dedicated host types.
- A single g5se instance attached with enhanced SSDs (ESSDs) can deliver a random IOPS of up to 1,000,000 and a sequential read and write performance of up to 32 Gbit/s.
- Compute:
- Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
- Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors for 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 more information about the storage I/O performance of the next-generation enterprise-level instance families, see
Storage I/O performance.
- Network:
- Supported scenarios:
- I/O-intensive scenarios such as large and medium-sized online transactional 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
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI | Disk IOPS | Disk bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
|---|
| ecs.g5se.large | 2 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 300,000 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 30,000 | 1.5 |
| ecs.g5se.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 1.5 | 500,000 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 60,000 | 2 |
| ecs.g5se.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 2.0 | 800,000 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 85,000 | 3 |
| ecs.g5se.4xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 4.0 | 1,000,000 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 150,000 | 5 |
| ecs.g5se.8xlarge | 32 | 128.0 | 7.0 | 2,000,000 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 300,000 | 10 |
| ecs.g5se.16xlarge | 64 | 256.0 | 14.0 | 3,000,000 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 750,000 | 25 |
| ecs.g5se.18xlarge | 70 | 336.0 | 16.0 | 4,000,000 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1,000,000 | 32 |
sn2, general-purpose instance family
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) processors for 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 instead.
- 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
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.sn2.medium | 2 | 8.0 | 0.5 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 |
| ecs.sn2.large | 4 | 16.0 | 0.8 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 |
| ecs.sn2.xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 1.5 | 400,000 | 1 | 4 |
| ecs.sn2.3xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 3.0 | 500,000 | 2 | 8 |
| ecs.sn2.7xlarge | 32 | 128.0 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 3 | 8 |
| ecs.sn2.13xlarge | 56 | 224.0 | 10.0 | 1,200,000 | 4 | 8 |
sn1, compute-optimized instance family
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) processors for 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 instead.
- 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
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.sn1.medium | 2 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 100,000 | 1 | 2 |
| ecs.sn1.large | 4 | 8.0 | 0.8 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 |
| ecs.sn1.xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 1.5 | 400,000 | 1 | 4 |
| ecs.sn1.3xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 3.0 | 500,000 | 2 | 8 |
| ecs.sn1.7xlarge | 32 | 64.0 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 3 | 8 |
c4, ce4, and cm4, compute-optimized instance families with high clock speeds
Features:
- Uses 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 (Broadwell) processors.
- Provides consistent computing performance.
- Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
- Supports only standard SSDs and ultra disks.
- Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
- Supported scenarios:
- High-performance web frontend servers
- High-performance scientific and engineering applications
- MMO gaming and video encoding
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.c4.xlarge | 4 | 8.0 | 1.5 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 |
| ecs.c4.2xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 3.0 | 400,000 | 1 | 4 |
| ecs.c4.3xlarge | 12 | 24.0 | 4.5 | 600,000 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.c4.4xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 2 | 8 |
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.ce4.xlarge | 4 | 32.0 | 1.5 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 |
| ecs.ce4.2xlarge | 8 | 64.0 | 3.0 | 400,000 | 1 | 3 |
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.cm4.xlarge | 4 | 16.0 | 1.5 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 |
| ecs.cm4.2xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 3.0 | 400,000 | 1 | 4 |
| ecs.cm4.3xlarge | 12 | 48.0 | 4.5 | 600,000 | 2 | 6 |
| ecs.cm4.4xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 2 | 8 |
| ecs.cm4.6xlarge | 24 | 96.0 | 10.0 | 1,200,000 | 4 | 8 |
gn4, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
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 only 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 analysis
- Server-side GPU compute workloads such as high-performance computing, rendering, and multi-media encoding and decoding
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI |
|---|
| ecs.gn4-c4g1.xlarge | 4 | 30.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 1 | 12GB * 1 | 3.0 | 300,000 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| ecs.gn4-c8g1.2xlarge | 8 | 30.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 1 | 12GB * 1 | 3.0 | 400,000 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| ecs.gn4.8xlarge | 32 | 48.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 1 | 12GB * 1 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 3 | 8 | 20 |
| ecs.gn4-c4g1.2xlarge | 8 | 60.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 2 | 12GB * 2 | 5.0 | 500,000 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| ecs.gn4-c8g1.4xlarge | 16 | 60.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 2 | 12GB * 2 | 5.0 | 500,000 | 1 | 8 | 20 |
| ecs.gn4.14xlarge | 56 | 96.0 | NVIDIA M40 * 2 | 12GB * 2 | 10.0 | 1,200,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ga1, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance family
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 only 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
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Local storage (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI |
|---|
| ecs.ga1.xlarge | 4 | 10.0 | 1 * 87 | AMD S7150 * 1/4 | 8GB * 1/4 | 1.0 | 200,000 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| ecs.ga1.2xlarge | 8 | 20.0 | 1 * 175 | AMD S7150 * 1/2 | 8GB * 1/2 | 1.5 | 300,000 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| ecs.ga1.4xlarge | 16 | 40.0 | 1 * 350 | AMD S7150 * 1 | 8GB * 1 | 3.0 | 500,000 | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| ecs.ga1.8xlarge | 32 | 80.0 | 1 * 700 | AMD S7150 * 2 | 8GB * 2 | 6.0 | 800,000 | 3 | 8 | 20 |
| ecs.ga1.14xlarge | 56 | 160.0 | 1 * 1400 | AMD S7150 * 4 | 8GB * 4 | 10.0 | 1,200,000 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
ebmhfg5, ECS Bare Metal Instance family with high clock speeds
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI |
|---|
| ecs.ebmhfg5.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 6 | 2,000,000 | 6 | 8 |
sccgn6ne, GPU-accelerated compute-optimized SCC instance family
Features:
- 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 HBM2 GPU memory
- CUDA Cores 5120
- Tensor Cores 640
- GPU memory bandwidth of up to 900 GB/s
- Support for six NVLink links and a total bandwidth of 300 GB/s (25 GB/s per NVlink link per direction)
- Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
- Uses 2.5 GHz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) processors for 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 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 a distributed GPU cluster
- Large-scale high-performance scientific computing and simulation calculation
- Large-scale data analytics, batch processing, and video encoding
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | GPU | GPU memory | Bandwidth (Gbit/s) | Packet forwarding rate (pps) | RoCE bandwidth (Gbit/s) | NIC queues | ENIs | Private IP addresses per ENI |
|---|
| ecs.sccgn6ne.24xlarge | 96 | 768.0 | NVIDIA V100 * 8 | 32GB * 8 | 32.0 | 4,800,000 | 100 | 16 | 8 | 20 |
n1, n2, and e3, shared instance families
Features
- Uses 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 (Haswell) processors.
- Is an instance family in which all instances are I/O optimized.
- Supports standard SSDs and ultra disks.
- Provides high network performance based on large computing capacity.
| Instance family | Description | CPU-to-memory ratio | Supported scenario |
|---|
| n1 | Shared compute instance family | 1:2 | - Small and medium-sized web servers
- Batch processing
- Distributed analysis
- Advertisement services
|
| n2 | Shared general-purpose instance family | 1:4 | - Medium-sized web servers
- Batch processing
- Distributed analysis
- Advertisement services
- Hadoop clusters
|
| e3 | Shared memory instance family | 1:8 | - Cache/Redis
- Search applications
- In-memory databases
- Databases with high I/O requirements, such as Oracle and MongoDB
- Hadoop clusters
- Large-volume data processing
|
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.n1.tiny | 1 | 1.0 | 1 |
| ecs.n1.small | 1 | 2.0 | 1 |
| ecs.n1.medium | 2 | 4.0 | 1 |
| ecs.n1.large | 4 | 8.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n1.xlarge | 8 | 16.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n1.3xlarge | 16 | 32.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n1.7xlarge | 32 | 64.0 | 2 |
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.n2.small | 1 | 4.0 | 1 |
| ecs.n2.medium | 2 | 8.0 | 1 |
| ecs.n2.large | 4 | 16.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n2.xlarge | 8 | 32.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n2.3xlarge | 16 | 64.0 | 2 |
| ecs.n2.7xlarge | 32 | 128.0 | 2 |
Instance types
| Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | ENIs |
|---|
| ecs.e3.small | 1 | 8.0 | 1 |
| ecs.e3.medium | 2 | 16.0 | 1 |
| ecs.e3.large | 4 | 32.0 | 2 |
| ecs.e3.xlarge | 8 | 64.0 | 2 |
| ecs.e3.3xlarge | 16 | 128.0 | 2 |
Generation I instance families
Generation I instance families include t1, s1, s2, s3, m1, m2, c1, and c2. All these instance families are legacy shared instance families. They are categorized based on the number of cores such as 1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 cores.
Features:
- Uses Intel Xeon E5-2420 processors with clock speeds of no less than 1.9 GHz.
- Uses the latest DDR3 memory.
- Is an instance family 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 their specifications.
| Category | Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) |
|---|
| Standard | ecs.s2.large | 2 | 4 |
| ecs.s2.xlarge | 2 | 8 |
| ecs.s2.2xlarge | 2 | 16 |
| ecs.s3.medium | 4 | 4 |
| ecs.s3.large | 4 | 8 |
| High Memory | ecs.m1.medium | 4 | 16 |
| ecs.m2.medium | 4 | 32 |
| ecs.m1.xlarge | 8 | 32 |
| High CPU | ecs.c1.small | 8 | 8 |
| ecs.c1.large | 8 | 16 |
| ecs.c2.medium | 16 | 16 |
| ecs.c2.large | 16 | 32 |
| ecs.c2.xlarge | 16 | 64 |
Non-I/O optimized instance types support only basic disks. The following table describes the instance types and their specifications.
| Category | Instance type | vCPU | Memory (GiB) |
|---|
| Tiny | ecs.t1.small | 1 | 1 |
| Standard | ecs.s1.small | 1 | 2 |
| ecs.s1.medium | 1 | 4 |
| ecs.s1.large | 1 | 8 |
| ecs.s2.small | 2 | 2 |
| ecs.s2.large | 2 | 4 |
| ecs.s2.xlarge | 2 | 8 |
| ecs.s2.2xlarge | 2 | 16 |
| ecs.s3.medium | 4 | 4 |
| ecs.s3.large | 4 | 8 |
| High Memory | ecs.m1.medium | 4 | 16 |
| ecs.m2.medium | 4 | 32 |
| ecs.m1.xlarge | 8 | 32 |
| High CPU | ecs.c1.small | 8 | 8 |
| ecs.c1.large | 8 | 16 |
| ecs.c2.medium | 16 | 16 |
| ecs.c2.large | 16 | 32 |
| ecs.c2.xlarge | 16 | 64 |
Instance type specifications
| Specification | Description |
|---|
| Local storage | Local storage (also called local disks or cache disks) refers to the disks attached to the physical servers on which ECS instances are hosted. Local storage provides temporary block storage for instances. Local storage capacity is measured in GiB. When the computing resources (vCPUs and memory) of an instance are released or when an instance is failed over, data stored on its local disks may be lost. For more information, see Local disks. |
| Network bandwidth | The maximum sum of inbound and outbound network bandwidth values. For information about how to test the network bandwidth of an instance, see Test the network bandwidth.
Note Instance type specifications are all verified and obtained within a test environment. In actual scenarios, the performance of an instance may vary based on other factors such as instance load and networking model. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types. |
| Packet forwarding rate | The maximum sum of inbound and outbound packet forwarding rates. For information about how to test the packet forwarding rate of an instance, see Best practices for testing network performance.
Note Instance type specifications are all verified and obtained within a test environment. In actual scenarios, the performance of an instance may vary based on other factors such as instance load, image version, and networking model. We recommend that you perform business stress tests on instances to choose appropriate instance types. |
| Connections | A connection (also called a session) is the process of connecting a client and a server and transferring data between them. A connection is uniquely defined by the network communication quintuple that consists of a source IP address, a destination IP address, a source port, a destination port, and a protocol. Connections of an ECS instance include TCP, UDP, and Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) connections. |
| NIC queues | The maximum number of network interface controller (NIC) queues supported by the primary NIC of an instance. For the instance types other than ECS Bare Metal Instance types, the maximum number of NIC queues supported by a secondary NIC is the same as that supported by the primary NIC. |
| ENIs | The number of elastic network interfaces (ENIs) per instance that include one primary ENI. |