Advanced Computing Performance

Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest CPUs to help you to power your cloud applications and achieve faster results with low latency. Deploy ECS instances with just a few clicks from the easy-to-use console and scale capacity up or down based on real-time demands.

High Availability

Alibaba Cloud ECS provides the high SLA commitment for both single instance and multiple instances in multiple availability zones among the top cloud providers worldwide. Alibaba Cloud gained lots of experience of running infrastructure at large scale while maintaining high availability. We are currently supporting major e-commerce platforms in China such as Taobao and Tmall and we work closely with scientists from DAMO Academy to accurately predict, prevent and mitigate infrastructure issues without impacting our customers.

Technology Leadership

On top of the world-class customized components from our various vendors, Alibaba Cloud invested heavily on the Research & Development of our ECS product. Over the time, we developed X-Dragon compute platform, including the self-developed SOC, hardware acceleration card, as well as the Dragonfly lightweight hypervisor.Our Technology leadership provides a foundation for the high performance, availability, elasticity, scalability and security you enjoyed in our ECS products.

Elasticity

As the largest cloud provider in China and the 3rd largest cloud provider worldwide by revenue , Alibaba Cloud ECS has the scale to provide high elasticity that can meet your business needs instantly. We can provide hundreds of thousands of vCPUs in minutes for a single customer in a single region, that is because of our sophisticated smart placement algorithm, dynamic and automatic planing as well as our optimization of both hardware and software.

ECS Features

Features that meet your needs in every scenario Flexbile Puchasing Options ECS provides flexible purchasing models such as subscription model, pay as you go, reserved instances, as well as preemptible instances to meet your different business needs. You can make an Autoscaling group and your ECS instances in the group can automatically scale-out or scale-in according to the metrics or triggers or your choice such as CPU utilization or network utilization. Auto Provisioning Auto Provisioning makes it easier for you to take advantage of preemptible instances. It will automatically pick the instances across instance families, availability zones and purchasing models according to your strategy such as 'lowest cost' and utilize preemptible instances as much as possible to maintain you ECS fleet at your desired capacity. CPU options ECS allows you to turn off hyperthreading that is beneficial to certain workloads such as HPC. ECS also allows you to shut down certain amount of vCPUs in order to save licensing costs. Dedicated Host Clusters ECS provides Dedicated Host Clusters (DDH) so that the physical servers are dedicated to you without other tenants on it. You can place your virtual machines onto those servers according to your needs.

Benefits

• High Availability Alibaba Cloud ECS ensures data reliability and high availability by adopting stringent IDC standards, server access standards, and O&M standards.
• Secure Alibaba Cloud ECS is in the scope ISO 27001 and MTCS certifications that Alibaba Cloud has acheived. With Alibaba Cloud ECS, the confidentiality of user data and user information is secured while the user privacy is protected.
• Elasticity Alibaba Cloud ECS features elastic computing, storage, networking, and business architecture planning. You can leverage such elasticity to integrate your businesses as needed.
• Reliable Alibaba Cloud ECS offers an industry-leading SLA, with a commitment of 99.975% availability for individual instances and a commitment of 99.995% availability for multiple zones within the same region.
• Flexible Billing Methods Alibaba Cloud ECS provides multiple billing methods to cater to the cost-effectiveness requirements in different scenarios. These include Subscription (by year or by month), Pay-As-You-Go, Preemptible instance, Instance reservation, and more. Besides, a unique pay-by-bandwidth method is designed to support resource saving during public network access .
• Deploy and Grow Globally Alibaba Cloud ECS is available in 28 regions around the globe. You can deploy your instances in any of the regions while managing them with one global account.