Alibaba Cloud ECS

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

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	cn-Template:Not a typo	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	cn-Template:Not a typo	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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