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ecs.g5.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.g5.xlarge is a ecs.g5 family (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.236 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2937
(All-cores)
1102
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.g5.xlarge
Description
ecs.g5 family (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.g5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-15T10:43:10.308656

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-5
- 0.236 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.28 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.28 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8163
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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, monitor, 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
2.7
Scalability
67.5

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
      1.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A balanced x86_64 virtual server with dedicated Intel Xeon cores and 16 GB RAM for lightweight general-purpose workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.g5.xlarge is a general-purpose virtual server featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM on an Intel Xeon 8163 processor running at 2.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and KVM hypervisor, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates modest performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 25 percent, and memory bandwidth for large uncached blocks categorized as poor. The instance achieves 2.88 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and 3.36 GB/sec in static web serving. Given its balanced resource profile and moderate performance characteristics, the ecs.g5.xlarge is best suited for lightweight general-purpose workloads, basic web serving, small database operations, and development or testing environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 988

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,175

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      3616
      Compression
      45225
      Encryption
      1357
      Extended Instructions
      2947
      Floating Point Maths
      5264
      Integer Maths
      9787
      Physics
      440
      Prime Numbers
      25
      Single Threaded
      1652
      String Sorting
      6144

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      1375
      Database Operations
      1112
      Memory Latency
      75
      Memory Read Cached
      19414
      Memory Read Uncached
      6863
      Memory Write
      7172

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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