ecs.c6a.2xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.c6a.2xlarge is a ecs.c6a family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.182 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,074
(All-cores)
768
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.c6a.2xlarge
Description
ecs.c6a family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.c6a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T11:55:33.084228

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.182 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 0.182 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.182 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.182 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7H12
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
4
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      2.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated AMD EPYC compute-optimized instance with an efficient vCPU-to-RAM ratio for web serving and key-value database workloads.

      Compute Optimized

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.c6a.2xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores powered by an AMD EPYC 7H12 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It is configured with 16.0 GB of RAM (2.0 GB per core), 2 Gbps baseline network bandwidth, and no local storage or GPU hardware. Performance benchmarks indicate average capabilities across most standard operations, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 5025.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 10249.39. While raw compute benchmarks like stress-ng fall into lower percentiles, the instance maintains average performance in memory bandwidth for small cached blocks and database operations. This instance is qualitatively cost-effective for dedicated compute workloads with moderate memory requirements, making it suitable for static web serving, Redis key-value stores, and light database operations.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.389Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 587,708 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.307 50.00% 50.00% -44.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,169,460 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.357 20.00% 20.00% -18.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,067 2,418 0.855 10.00% 10.00% -1.55%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 32,994 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.305 10.00% 10.00% -11.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,110 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.892 10.00% 10.00% -1.14%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,315

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,025

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 10249
      Compression
      		 119296
      Encryption
      		 8342
      Extended Instructions
      		 7253
      Floating Point Maths
      		 15924
      Integer Maths
      		 26687
      Physics
      		 856
      Prime Numbers
      		 40
      Single Threaded
      		 2110
      String Sorting
      		 15922

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2067
      Database Operations
      		 2660
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24009
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12344
      Memory Write
      		 11249

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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