You can use community images to deploy Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances whose operating systems, applications, and data suit your business needs. This topic describes how to create an ECS instance by using a community image.
Background information
Before you use a community image, take note of the following items:
- Community images are provided and updated by Alibaba Cloud users. Alibaba Cloud does not guarantee the quality of community images. You must fully understand and agree to the Product Terms, Terms of Use, and Membership Agreement before you use community images.
- If a community image is unpublished, disks of ECS instances created by using this community image cannot be re-initialized.