Available instance families

• Introduction: g9ae instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with the latest AMD EPYC^™ Turin processors that use physical cores. These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: Big data analytics (such as Spark, Flink, and ES), search, recommendation, and advertising (ps-worker), core transaction systems, audio and video transcoding, AI training and inference, and general-purpose enterprise applications (Java).

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Turin processor with a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. These processors use physical cores to provide stable computing performance.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • You can adjust the baseline storage bandwidth.

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disk, Enterprise SSDs (ESSDs), ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • You can adjust the baseline network bandwidth.

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security:

  • These instances support the Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature.

  • These instances support VPC traffic encryption.

The g9ae instance familyincludes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

• Introduction: g9a instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with the latest AMD EPYC^™ Turin processors. These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: Large and medium-sized database systems, game servers, financial quantization, blockchain, web and application servers, and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Turin processor with a turbo frequency of up to 4.1 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disk, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) feature.

The g9a instance family includes the following instance types and metrics.

• Introduction: g9i instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They are equipped with Intel^® Xeon^® 6 processors that feature P-cores (performance cores). These instances provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, search and promotion applications, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, and trusted and secure computing scenarios.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Intel^® Xeon^® Granite Rapids with a clock speed of 3.2 GHz, an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, and a single-core maximum turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.

    Note

    The system may display different frequencies for this instance. The single-core maximum turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz is a burst performance. The burst capability depends on the overall CPU load of the physical machine and is not covered by the Service-Level Agreement (SLA).

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Overview of Elastic Block Storage.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

g9i includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table:

• Family introduction: This instance family is built on the new Alibaba Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture and provides stable computing power, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: General-purpose enterprise applications (Java), memory-optimized or relational database applications, big data applications (such as Kafka and Elasticsearch), web applications, AI training and inference, and audio and video transcoding applications.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Genoa 9T24 processor with a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disk, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

• Performance acceleration:

  After you select an application for Performance acceleration, the application is automatically deployed on the purchased instance. KeenTune then uses expert knowledge to perform full-stack performance tuning based on the business characteristics of the application. For more information, see Application acceleration.

The g8a instance family includes the instance types and metric data listed in the following table.

• Family introduction: Built on the new Alibaba Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture, this family provides stable computing power, a more powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios, game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, search and promotion applications, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, and trusted and secure computing scenarios.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Intel^® Xeon^® Emerald Rapids or Intel^® Xeon^® Sapphire Rapids with a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

    Note

    When you purchase an instance of this family, the system randomly assigns one of the preceding processors. You cannot manually select a processor.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security:

  • These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

  • Instances with 4 or more vCPUs support the Alibaba Cloud virtualized enclave feature, which provides a virtualization-based confidential computing environment. For more information, see Build a confidential computing environment with an enclave.

  • These instances use Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel® TME) to encrypt runtime memory.

  • These instances support CPU-based confidential computing (Intel^® TDX). For more information, see Create a TDX-based confidential computing environment.

• Performance acceleration:

  After you select an application for Performance acceleration, the application is automatically deployed on the purchased instance. KeenTune then uses expert knowledge to perform full-stack performance tuning based on the business characteristics of the application. For more information, see Application acceleration.

The g8i instance family includes the instance types and metrics that are listed in the following table.

• Family introduction: Powered by Alibaba Cloud's new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture, this family delivers stable computing power and a more powerful I/O engine.

• Scenarios: Network-intensive scenarios that require excellent forwarding performance and a high number of connections. These instances are especially suitable for network access layer gateways and traffic and data forwarding or pre-processing middleware. They can be used as part of a cloud solution in scenarios such as large websites, e-commerce, and AI.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Intel^® Xeon^® Emerald Rapids or Intel^® Xeon^® Sapphire Rapids with a clock speed of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information, see Overview of Elastic Block Storage.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8ine instance family includes the instance types and metrics described in the following table.

• Introduction: g8ae instances are built on the new Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture. They provide stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: Artificial intelligence (AI) scenarios (such as deep learning, training, and AI inference), high-performance computing (HPC) and other high-performance scientific computing scenarios, large and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, large online game servers, and other general-purpose enterprise applications that have high performance requirements.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC™ Genoa processor with a clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.75 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g8ae instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g7a instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

• Scenarios: Video encoding and decoding, high packet forwarding rate scenarios, web and application servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, game servers, test and development (such as DevOps), and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC^™ MILAN processor with a single-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g7a instance familyincludes the following instance types and metrics.

• Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g7 instances provide stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

• Scenarios: High packet forwarding rate scenarios (such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding), game servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, enterprise applications of various types and sizes, web and application servers, data analytics and computing, trusted and secure computing scenarios, and blockchain scenarios.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Third-generation Intel^® Xeon^® Scalable (Ice Lake) processor with a base frequency of 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security:

  • These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

  • These instances support the Alibaba Cloud virtualized enclave feature, which provides a virtualization-based confidential computing environment. For more information, see Create a confidential computing environment for an enclave.

The g7 instance family includes the instance types and performance metrics that are listed in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the Alibaba Cloud CIPU architecture, g9h instances use Hygon C86-4G processors to deliver stable domestic computing power, enhanced I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Scenarios: Databases, web applications, big data analytics (Spark/Flink/ES), search/recommendation/advertising (ps-worker), core transaction systems, audio/video transcoding, AI training and inference, and general enterprise applications (Java).

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Hygon C86-4G, a fourth-generation Hygon scalable processor, with a turbo frequency of up to 3.1 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance with domestic computing power.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

The g9h instance family includes the instance types and metric data listed in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the SHENLONG architecture, g6h instances offload many virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance.

• Scenarios: Video encoding and decoding, high packet forwarding rate scenarios, web and application servers, small and medium-sized database systems, caches, search clusters, test and development (such as DevOps), and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: Hygon 7280, a second-generation Hygon scalable processor, with a base frequency of 2.0 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • For small instance types, network bandwidth is burstable.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6h instance family includes the instance types and performance metrics listed in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the SHENLONG architecture, g6 instances offload many virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance.

• Scenarios:

  • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

  • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

  • Web and application servers.

  • Game servers.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Data analytics and computing.

  • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor with a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  Note

  This family does not support FreeBSD 13.2 and earlier versions due to compatibility issues. Use FreeBSD 13.3 or a later version.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, Regional ESSDs, standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

    Note

    The maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.

  • The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    Note

    Network performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6 instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

• Family introduction: Built on the SHENLONG architecture, this family offloads numerous virtualization features to dedicated hardware, which reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance.

• Scenarios:

  • Video encoding and decoding.

  • Scenarios with high packet forwarding rates.

  • Web and application servers.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Game servers.

  • Test and development, such as DevOps.

  • Other general-purpose enterprise applications.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.6 GHz AMD EPYC^™ ROME processor with a turbo frequency of 3.3 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, Regional ESSDs, standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

  • The storage I/O performance of an instance depends on its compute specification. The higher the specification, the better the storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6a instance family includes the instance types and metric data shown in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the third-generation SHENLONG architecture, g6e instances offload many virtualization features to dedicated hardware. This reduces virtualization overhead and provides stable and predictable ultra-high performance. They also use chip-level acceleration to provide significant improvements in storage and network performance, and computing stability.

• Scenarios:

  • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

  • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

  • Web and application servers.

  • Game servers.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Data analytics and computing.

  • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of approximately 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor with a turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. These processors provide stable computing performance.

  • These instances support hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  Note

  This instance family does not support FreeBSD 13.2 or earlier versions due to compatibility issues. You can use FreeBSD 13.3 or later.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and Regional ESSDs. For more information, see Elastic Block Storage Overview.

  • The storage I/O performance of an instance depends on its compute specifications. The higher the specifications, the better the I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O Performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    Note

    Network performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g6e instance family includes the instance types and metrics described in the following table.

• Scenarios:

  • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

  • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Data analytics and computing.

  • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® Platinum 8163 (Skylake) or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor that provides stable computing performance.

    Note

    Instances of this family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use g6, g6e, or g7 instances.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, standard SSD, and ultra disk. For more information, see Block Storage Overview.

    Note

    The maximum performance of disks varies based on the instance families. A single instance of this instance family can deliver up to 200,000 IOPS.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

    Note

    Network performance varies based on the instance families. For higher concurrent connection and network packet forwarding capabilities, we recommend that you use the g7ne instance family.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The g5 instance family includes the following instance types and metrics.

• Scenarios:

  • High packet forwarding rate scenarios, such as live comments and telecommunication service forwarding.

  • Enterprise applications of various types and sizes.

  • Small and medium-sized database systems, caches, and search clusters.

  • Data analytics and computing.

  • Compute clusters and memory-dependent data processing.

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio of 1:4.

  • Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel^® Xeon^® E5-2682 v4 (Broadwell), Platinum 8163 (Skylake), or 8269CY (Cascade Lake) processor that provides stable computing performance.

    Note

    Instances of this family may be deployed on different server platforms. If your business requires instances to be deployed on the same server platform, we recommend that you use g6, g6e, or g7 instances.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supported disk types: standard SSDs and ultra disks. For more information, see Overview of Elastic Block Storage.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances provide an ultra-high packet forwarding rate.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

The sn2ne instance family includes the instance types and metrics listed in the following table.

• Introduction: Built on the new-generation Alibaba Cloud CIPU and powered by the latest AMD EPYC^™ Turin processors, these instances use physical cores to deliver stable computing performance, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Use cases: Ideal for workloads such as big data analytics (e.g., Spark, Flink, and Elasticsearch), search and recommendation engines, advertising systems (ps-worker), core transaction systems, audio and video transcoding, AI training and inference, and general-purpose enterprise applications (e.g., Java).

• Compute:

  • Processor-to-memory ratio: 1:2.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Turin processors with a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz.

  • For information about OS compatibility, see AMD instance type and OS compatibility.

• Storage:

  • You can adjust the baseline storage bandwidth.

  • I/O optimized.

  • Supports the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information about disks, see Block Storage.

  • Smaller instance types offer burstable disk IOPS and bandwidth. Storage I/O performance scales with the instance type. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • You can adjust the baseline network bandwidth.

  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For more information about IPv6, see IPv6 communication.

  • Supports Elastic RDMA Interface (ERI). For instructions on how to use ERI, see Enable eRDMA on enterprise-level instances.

  • Supports jumbo frames.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

• Security:

  • Supports Trusted Platform Module (vTPM).

  • Supports VPC traffic encryption.

The following table lists the available c9ae instance types and their specifications.

• Introduction: Built on the new-generation Alibaba Cloud CIPU architecture and powered by the latest AMD EPYC^™ Turin processors to provide stable computing performance, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Use cases: Ideal for workloads such as large and medium-sized database systems, game servers, financial quantitative analysis, blockchain, web and application servers, and other general-purpose enterprise applications.

• Compute:

  • The vCPU-to-memory ratio is 1:2.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Turin processor with a turbo frequency of up to 4.1 GHz, ensuring stable computing performance.

  • For information about OS compatibility, see AMD instance types and OS compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O-optimized instances.

  • Supports the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information about disks, see the Block Storage Overview.

  • Smaller instance types offer burstable disk IOPS and bandwidth. Storage I/O performance scales with the instance type. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For more information about IPv6, see IPv6 communication.

  • Supports Elastic RDMA Interface (ERI). For instructions on how to use ERI, see Enable eRDMA on enterprise-level instances.

  • Supports jumbo frames.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

• Security: Supports the Trusted Computing (vTPM) feature.

The following table lists the specifications for the c9a instance family.

• Introduction: Built on Alibaba Cloud's next-generation CIPU architecture and powered by Intel^® Xeon^® 6 processors with P-cores, these instances deliver stable computing performance, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Use cases: Machine learning inference applications, data analytics, batch computing, video encoding, frontend game servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, and web frontend servers.

• Compute:

  • The vCPU-to-memory ratio is 1:2.

  • Processor: Intel^® Xeon^® Granite Rapids processors with a 3.2 GHz base frequency, an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, and a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz.

    Note

    The system may display different frequencies for this instance. The 3.9 GHz maximum single-core turbo frequency is a burst capability that depends on the overall CPU load of the physical server and is not covered by the Service Level Agreement (SLA).

  • For operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • I/O-optimized instance.

  • These instances support the NVMe protocol. For more information, see Overview of the NVMe protocol.

  • Supported cloud disk types: ESSDs and ESSD AutoPL disks. For more information about cloud disks, see Block storage overview.

  • For small instance types, disk IOPS and disk bandwidth are burstable. The storage I/O performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher storage I/O performance. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • These instances support IPv4 and IPv6. For information about IPv6 communication, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • The network performance of an instance corresponds to its instance type. A larger instance type provides higher network performance.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

c9i includes the following instance types and metric data:

• Introduction: Built on Alibaba Cloud's next-generation CIPU architecture, these instances deliver stable computing power, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Use cases: Big data applications, web applications, AI training and inference, and audio and video transcoding.

• Compute:

  • The CPU-to-memory ratio is 1:2.

  • Processor: AMD EPYC^™ Genoa processors with a 2.7 GHz base frequency and a turbo frequency of up to 3.7 GHz deliver stable computing power.

  • Supports hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is enabled by default. To change this setting, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see AMD instance type and OS compatibility.

• Storage:

  • I/O-optimized instance.

  • Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

  • Supported cloud disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information about cloud disks, see block storage.

  • For smaller instance types, cloud disk IOPS and bandwidth are burstable. Storage I/O performance scales with the instance type. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For IPv6, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • Delivers an ultra-high packet forwarding rate (PPS).

  • Smaller instance types support burstable network bandwidth.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

• Security: These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

• Performance acceleration:

  After you select an application for Performance acceleration, the application is automatically deployed on the purchased instance. KeenTune then uses expert knowledge to perform full-stack performance tuning based on the business characteristics of the application. For more information, see Application acceleration.

c8a includes the following instance types and metrics:

• Introduction: Built on the next-generation Alibaba Cloud CIPU architecture, c8i instances provide stable computing performance, a powerful I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening.

• Use cases: Ideal for machine learning inference, data analytics, batch computing, video encoding, game frontend servers, high-performance scientific and engineering applications, and web frontend servers.

• Compute:

  • The vCPU-to-memory ratio is 1:2.

  • Processor: Intel^®Xeon^®Emerald Rapids or Intel^®Xeon^®Sapphire Rapids processors with a base frequency of at least 2.7 GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz.

    Note

    When you purchase an instance of this family, the system randomly assigns one of the preceding processors. You cannot manually select a processor.

  • Supports Hyper-Threading, enabled by default. For more information, see Change CPU options.

  • For information about operating system compatibility, see Intel instance types and operating system compatibility.

• Storage:

  • These are I/O optimized instances.

  • Supports the NVMe protocol. For more information, see NVMe protocol.

  • Supported cloud disk types: elastic ephemeral disks, ESSDs, ESSD AutoPL disks, and regional ESSDs. For more information about cloud disks, see Block storage.

  • Storage I/O performance scales with the instance type. For smaller instance types, cloud disk IOPS and bandwidth are burstable. For more information, see Storage I/O performance.

• Network:

  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6. For more information about IPv6, see IPv6 communication.

  • These instances support eRDMA. For information about how to use eRDMA, see Enable on enterprise-level instance.

  • These instances support jumbo frames. For more information, see Jumbo frames.

  • Network performance scales with the instance type.

  • Smaller instance types support burstable network bandwidth.

• Security:

  • These instances support the vTPM feature. For more information, see Overview of trusted computing.

  • The vTPM feature uses TPM/TCM chips to create a trusted boot chain from the server to the instance for enhanced security.

  • Instances with 4 or more vCPUs support the Alibaba Cloud virtualized enclave feature to provide a confidential computing environment. For more information, see Build a confidential computing environment by using an enclave.

  • Uses Intel^® Total Memory Encryption (TME) to encrypt runtime memory.

• Performance acceleration:

  After you select an application for Performance acceleration, the application is automatically deployed on the purchased instance. KeenTune then uses expert knowledge to perform full-stack performance tuning based on the business characteristics of the application. For more information, see Application acceleration.