ecs.g8a.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.g8a.xlarge is a ecs.g8a 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 0.158 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,151
(All-cores)
3,074
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.g8a.xlarge
Description
ecs.g8a family (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.g8a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T11:29:13.054463

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.158 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.158 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
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
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
2
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

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC compute cores and strong single-core performance for standard workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8a.xlarge is a general-purpose virtual machine instance featuring 4 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, powered by a dedicated AMD EPYC 9T24 processor running at 2.7 GHz on the KVM hypervisor. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it delivers a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio with no bundled local storage or GPU acceleration. Benchmark data highlights strong single-core CPU performance, though multi-threaded scaling and database operations fall into average and weaker tiers. The instance supports advanced instruction sets including AVX-512 and AES for cryptographic workloads. With a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps, the ecs.g8a.xlarge is qualitatively cost-effective for general-purpose applications, development environments, and lightweight web serving where dedicated compute resources are required without specialized storage or memory overhead.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.3Score
      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) 365,357 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.19 50.00% 56.00% -61.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,035,673 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.25 20.00% 22.00% -26.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,342 2,417 0.96 10.00% 11.00% -0.45%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) — 108,361 MB/sec — 10.00% 0.00% —
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,875 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 11.00% +2.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 7545
      Compression
      		 78957
      Encryption
      		 4794
      Extended Instructions
      		 5377
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10613
      Integer Maths
      		 18953
      Physics
      		 936
      Prime Numbers
      		 47
      Single Threaded
      		 2875
      String Sorting
      		 11649

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2342
      Database Operations
      		 2069
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27388
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 26266
      Memory Write
      		 26001

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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