ecs.e-c2m1.large by Alibaba Cloud

A budget-friendly, shared-CPU virtual machine with minimal memory footprint designed for lightweight utility tasks and basic development environments.

Alibaba Cloud ecs.e-c2m1.large is an entry-level virtual machine from the ecs.e family, utilizing the KVM hypervisor on the x86_64 architecture. It features 2 vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.5 GHz with a shared CPU allocation model. The instance is configured with 1.0 GB of system memory, providing 0.5 GB of RAM per core. It does not include local storage, bundled GPUs, or baseline network bandwidth. Given its shared resource model and minimal memory footprint, this instance represents a highly budget-focused tier. It is best suited for low-intensity workloads, basic utility scripts, lightweight development environments, and simple background tasks that do not demand dedicated compute performance or high memory capacity.