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Benefits

Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides scalable and reliable computing capacity in the cloud. With ECS, you no longer have to invest precious time and money to purchase, set up, and manage your IT infrastructure, so you can focus on developing and deploying your applications.

Expansive instance options

ECS provides a broad and deep selection of instances to fit different use cases.

  • State-of-the-art computing architecture: ECS instances run on the x86 and ARM architectures, which are sufficient to cover almost all types of workloads.
  • Diversified instance types: ECS provides a wide selection of instance types and gives you the flexibility to size your compute resources to match capacity needs at the lowest cost. Instance types comprise varying combinations of compute, memory, and storage capacity, allowing you to choose an appropriate mix of resources for your applications. General-purpose, network-enhanced, storage-enhanced, memory-optimized, security-enhanced, big data, high clock speed, GPU-accelerated, and FPGA-accelerated instance types are available with different options for CPU, memory, and network resources to provide exceptional cost performance for general-purpose computing, heterogeneous computing, and high-performance computing scenarios.

Reliability you can trust

  • Service reliability: ECS operates with high single-instance availability and cross-zone multi-instance availability.
  • Data durability: Stoage attached+o ECS srstances makes use of a mult-replica mechanism to provide high data durability.
  • Availability and disaster tolerance: ECS provides a host of availability and reliability features such as failover, snapshots, and automatic alerting to ensure service availability and data recovery even when one or more instances fail.

Designed for convenience

  • Intuitive interface: ECS provides a user-friendly, web-based console, which you can use to start, stop, configure, and modify ECS instances in the same way you would with a physical machine.
  • Push-button deployment: ECS images are preconfigured with an ever-growing list of operating systems and software. Images allow you to deploy multiple instances with the same configurations quickly and easily.
  • Rich management and migration tools: we provide rich management and governance tools such as Terraform, Operation Orchestration Service (OOS), and Resource Orchestration Service (ROS). ECS can also work with the Server Migration Center (SMC) to facilitate the migration of your business to the cloud.

Comprehensive security capabilities

  • Diversified security features: we provide a host of security services and features that meet international standards and requirements for data security. These services include Anti-DDoS Origin Basic, port intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, and trojan scanning to protect your applications hosted in ECS.
  • Hardware encryption: ECS supports Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM), confidential computing based on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX), and vSGX and provides comprehensive hardware encryption capabilities.