Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro is the commercial paid edition of Alibaba Cloud Linux, Alibaba Cloud's server operating system. It delivers comprehensive high availability, deep cloud-native support, and a rich software and hardware ecosystem, meets security and compliance requirements, and provides up to 13 years of lifecycle maintenance to ensure business continuity for workloads that require high stability.
Applicability
Supports various instance families, including Elastic Bare Metal Instance. For more information, see Instance families.
Instances with 1 to 768 vCPUs.
Instances with 0.5 GiB to 12,288 GiB of memory.
Non-I/O-optimized instances are not supported.
Supports various cloud workloads, such as databases, cloud-native containers, data analytics, and web applications.
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Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro instances do not currently support replacing the operating system (system disk).
Billing
Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro is a commercial image that requires a license fee. This fee is charged in addition to instance resource costs when you create an instance using either the public image or a custom image based on it.
The following table lists the unit prices for different billing methods.
Image type | Pay-as-you-go price (CNY/hour) | Monthly price (CNY/month) |
Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro | 0.5 | 240.00 |
Security bulletins
For more information, see Operating system security bulletins.
Lifecycle
The Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro lifecycle has three support phases:
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Version |
Full support phase |
Maintenance support phase |
Extended support phase |
EOL date |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 4 Pro |
2025-07 to 2030-06 |
2030-07 to 2035-06 |
2035-07 to 2038-06 |
2038-06-30 |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro |
2021-04 to 2026-03 |
2026-04 to 2031-03 |
2031-04 to 2034-03 |
2034-03-31 |
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Full Support Phase: This phase includes support for new hardware, major new features, and feature enhancements. It also includes bug fixes and security vulnerability fixes.
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Maintenance Support Phase: During this phase, new hardware support, major new features, or feature enhancements are no longer provided. Support is limited to bug fixes and security vulnerability fixes.
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Extended Support Phase: Alibaba Cloud provides fixes for high-priority bugs and for high-severity and critical-severity security vulnerabilities that pass Alibaba Cloud's evaluation.
Alibaba Cloud Linux Pro images
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Distribution |
Image name |
Description |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 4 Pro |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 4 Pro LTS 64-bit |
The default standard image for the x86 architecture. |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 4 Pro LTS 64-bit for ARM |
The default standard image for the Arm architecture. |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro 64-bit |
The default standard image for the x86 architecture. |
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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro 64-bit for ARM |
The default standard image for the Arm architecture. |