ecs.c8a.2xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.c8a.2xlarge is a ecs.c8a 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 0.0456 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
12,260
(All-cores)
3,062
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.c8a.2xlarge
Description
ecs.c8a family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.c8a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
10.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T22:49:41.277561

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
0.0456 USD/h 0.2398 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9T24
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, amd_lbr_v2, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, extapic, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, ibs, topoext, perfctr_core, mwaitx, ssbd, perfmon_v2, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512_bf16, clzero, irperf, xsaveerptr, rdpru, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
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
      4 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated compute-optimized instance featuring AMD EPYC processors, balanced for single-core efficiency and moderate memory workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.c8a.2xlarge is a compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs powered by an AMD EPYC 9T24 processor at 2.7 GHz and 16.0 GB of RAM. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, this x86_64 instance provides a 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, 4 Gbps baseline network bandwidth, and no bundled local storage or GPUs. Benchmark data highlights strong single-core CPU and text processing performance, alongside average multi-core, compression, and database execution speeds. Supported instruction sets include AVX-512 and AVX512_VNNI. This instance represents a resource-dense, cost-efficient option for CPU-bound workloads where memory demands are moderate. It is well-suited for web serving, software compilation, text processing, and general-purpose application hosting.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.55Score
      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.Partial coverage: missing component benchmark(s): Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3).
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 805,338 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.42 50.00% 55.60% -38.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,304,838 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.54 20.00% 22.20% -12.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,400 2,418 0.993 10.00% 11.10% -0.08%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) — 108,140 MB/sec — 10.00% 0.00% —
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,865 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.21 10.00% 11.10% +2.14%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,001

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,752

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 14407
      Compression
      		 156473
      Encryption
      		 9578
      Extended Instructions
      		 10809
      Floating Point Maths
      		 21159
      Integer Maths
      		 37829
      Physics
      		 1545
      Prime Numbers
      		 91
      Single Threaded
      		 2865
      String Sorting
      		 22982

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2400
      Database Operations
      		 4029
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27418
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 26339
      Memory Write
      		 26107

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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