Company:Alibaba Cloud ECS
.png) Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) | |
| Original author(s) | AlibabaCloud.com |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | AlibabaCloud.com |
| Initial release | September 10, 2009 (public beta) |
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| Available in | English, Chinese |
| Type | Virtual private server |
| Website | www |
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is one of the core components of Alibaba Cloud – the cloud computing ecosystem of Alibaba Group. ECS is a type of cloud computing solution that features elastic processing capabilities. ECS has a simpler and more efficient management mode than physical servers. With the creation of instances, change the OS, and add or release any number of ECS instances at any time to fit your business needs. An ECS instance is a virtual computing environment that includes CPU, memory, and other basic computing components. An instance is the core component of ECS and is the actual operating entity offered by Alibaba Cloud. Other resources, such as disks, images, and snapshots, can only be used in conjunction with an ECS instance.
History
- 2018.12 CentOS 7.5, Ubuntu 18.04, CentOS 7.6 and Debian 9.6 Mirror released
- 2018.10 Open API Best Practices Released in the ECS Console
- 2018.09 High-precision Time Synchronization Service Based on Full Coverage of Regions
- 2018.06 Security group optimizing project
- 2018.05 ECS system events connected to CloudMonitor
- 2018.02 ECS releases a query API to facilitate resource creation
- 2017.12 Four international regions added for launching the performance burst instance T5
- 2017.10 RAM role feature of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances released
- 2016.04 US East (Virginia) data center had been launched
- 2016.01 System disk expansion
- 2015.11 Instance Series II had been launched
- 2015.11 Security group function had been launched
- 2015.10 US West Availability Zone 1B had been launched
- 2015.09 Commercialization of the image on marketplace
- 2015.09 Singapore data center had been launched
- 2015.09 Efficient cloud disk had been launched
- 2015.08 Tag grouping function is had been launched
- 2015.08 Proprietary network VPC had been launched
- 2015.06 Windows Server 2003 image had been stopped
- 2015.05 Shared image had been launched
- 2015.04 Disk expansion is had been launched
- 2014.12 Local SSD disk officially commercial
- 2014.10 Support for deploying Docker container applications
- 2014.08 Shenzhen data center online
- 2014.08 Independent cloud disk function had been launched
- 2014.07 Availability area function had been launched
- 2014.06 Automatic snapshot function had been launched
- 2014.05 Hong Kong data center had been launched
- 2014.05 Mirror market had been launched
- 2014.04 Beijing data center had been launched
- 2014.04 ECS API had been officially launched
- 2013.07 ECS custom mirroring function had been launched
- 2011.07 Alibaba Cloud official website was successfully launched, ECS provides external sales[1]
Regions
Alibaba Cloud regions are physical locations (data centers) that spread all over the world to reduce the network latency. The region cannot be changed once a resource is created in it. The following table lists all the Alibaba Cloud regions, corresponding cities, and region IDs
Regions in Mainland China
| Region name | City | Region ID | Number of zones |
| China North 1 | Qingdao | cn-qingdao | 2 |
| China North 2 | Beijing | 7 | |
| China North 3 | Zhangjiakou | cn-zhangjiakou | 2 |
| China North 5 | Hohhot | cn-huhehaote | 2 |
| China East 1 | Hangzhou | cn-hangzhou | 8 |
| China East 2 | Shanghai | cn-shanghai | 6 |
| China South 1 | Shenzhen | cn-shenzhen | 5 |
International regions
| Region name | City | Region ID | Number of zones |
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 2 | |
| Asia Pacific SE 1 | Singapore | ap-southeast-1 | 3 |
| Asia Pacific SE 2 | Sydney | ap-southeast-2 | 2 |
| Asia Pacific SE 3 | Kuala Lumpur | ap-southeast-3 | 2 |
| Asia Pacific SE 5 | Jakarta | ap-southeast-5 | 2 |
| Asia Pacific SOU 1 | Mumbai | ap-south-1 | 2 |
| Asia Pacific NE 1 | Tokyo | ap-northeast-1 | 2 |
| US West 1 | Silicon Valley | us-west-1 | 2 |
| US East 1 | Virginia | us-east-1 | 2 |
| EU Central 1 | Frankfurt | eu-central-1 | 2 |
| UK (London) | London | eu-west-1 | 2 |
| Middle East 1 | Dubai | me-east-1 | 1 |
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