ecs.e3.small by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.e3.small is a ecs.e3 family (1 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 1 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0176 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,015
(All-cores)
1,015
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.e3.small
Description
ecs.e3 family (1 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.e3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T14:34:02.355327

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
0.0176 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.126 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 0.126 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.126 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.126 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8269CY
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A single-core, memory-leaning virtual server designed for lightweight utility workloads, basic database tasks, and development environments.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.e3.small is an x86_64 virtual server featuring a dedicated Intel Xeon 8269CY processor with 1 vCPU, 1 physical core, and 1 thread running at 2.5 GHz. It is equipped with 8.0 GB of RAM, providing an 8.0 GB per core ratio, but contains no local storage or GPU resources. Benchmark data indicates limited performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench multi-core scores placing the instance in the bottom 10% of tested servers. Memory bandwidth is also constrained, with large-block read speeds at 8.76 GB/sec. Given these performance characteristics, the ecs.e3.small is qualitatively cost-effective for low-demand, memory-leaning workloads. It is best suited for lightweight database tasks, basic web serving, or development environments that do not require high computational throughput.

      Economics

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.1Score
      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) 112,666 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.055 50.00% 50.00% -77.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 744,306 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.062 20.00% 20.00% -43.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,084 2,417 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,791 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,596 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 939

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 937

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1307
      Compression
      		 15997
      Encryption
      		 403
      Extended Instructions
      		 1215
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2380
      Integer Maths
      		 3152
      Physics
      		 177
      Prime Numbers
      		 10
      Single Threaded
      		 1596
      String Sorting
      		 2102

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1084
      Database Operations
      		 531
      Memory Latency
      		 80
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18858
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6624
      Memory Write
      		 6809

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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