Cloud server (Elastic Compute Service, referred to as ECS) is Ali cloud provides excellent performance, reliable, flexible scalable IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) level cloud computing services. ECS cloud server eliminates the preparation of your purchase IT hardware, allowing you to use like water, electricity, gas and other public resources as easy, efficient use of server, realize that the use scalable and elastic computing resources. Ali cloud ECS server continues to provide innovative, solve a variety of business needs, help your business.
Why cloud server ECS
Select the cloud server ECS, you can easily build computational resource has the following advantages:
- You do not need self-built room, without having to purchase and configure hardware.
- Minute class delivery, rapid deployment, shortening the on-line application cycle.
- Quick access deployments worldwide data centers and BGP room.
- Cost transparency, on-demand, at any time to support the expansion and release of resources based on business fluctuations.
- GPU and FPGA provides heterogeneous computing server, a server and a universal elastic bare metal x86 architecture servers.
- Ali supports access to other cloud services through the network, form a rich industry solutions, reducing public network traffic costs.
- It provides a virtual firewall, role access control, network isolation, anti-virus attacks such as multiple security and traffic monitoring program.
- Provide proactive performance monitoring framework and operation and maintenance system.
- Provide common industry standard API, improve ease of use and applicability.
Product Architecture
ECS cloud server includes the following major functional components:
- Example : equivalent to a virtual server, containing CPU, memory, operating systems, network configuration, and other disk-based computing component. Examples of computing performance, memory performance and business scenarios apply the example specifications determined, and specific examples include vCPU performance audit, memory size, network performance.
- Mirror : provides examples of operating systems, application initialization data and pre-installed software. Operating system supports a variety of Linux distributions and many versions of Windows Server.
- Memory block : block device type of product, high performance and low latency characteristics. Infrastructure-based distributed storage cloud disk , the shared memory block based on the locally stored machine physical local disk .
- Snapshot : a cloud point in time a disk or shared block status of stored data files. Commonly used in data backup, data recovery, and the like making custom images.
- Security Group : Demand instances with the same protection from the same geographical area and the composition of mutual trust, is a virtual firewall, network access control settings for instance.
- Network :
- Proprietary network (the Virtual Private Cloud) : logically complete isolation of the private network cloud. You can assign itself a private IP address range, configure the routing table and gateways.
- Classic Network: all the classic examples of network types are built on the basis of a common network. Ali cloud is configured by the unified planning and management network.
More functional components details, see the cloud server ECS product details page .
The following is a cloud server component architecture diagram ECS products
