ecs.ic5.2xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.ic5.2xlarge is a ecs.ic5 family (8 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 8 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0269 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5,887
(All-cores)
1,106
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.ic5.2xlarge
API Reference Object
-
Description
ecs.ic5 family (8 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.ic5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:10:48.035613

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0614 USD/h 0.307 USD/h
Ulanqab (CN) / cn-wulanchabu
- 0.333 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-5
0.0269 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Qingdao (CN) / cn-qingdao
0.074 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.37 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.37 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.37 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.37 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
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
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
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
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated Intel Xeon compute instance with a highly streamlined memory profile for lightweight, CPU-focused processing tasks.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.ic5.2xlarge is an x86_64 server instance featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs and 8.0 GB of memory, powered by an Intel Xeon 8163 processor at 2.5 GHz. Lacking local storage and GPU acceleration, it relies on network storage and provides a 2 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. The instance exhibits a highly constrained 1:1 RAM-to-vCPU ratio, which presents a significant tradeoff for memory-heavy applications. Benchmark results place its CPU and memory performance mostly in the weak to average categories, with notable bottlenecks in single-threaded compression and database operations. However, its dedicated CPU allocation offers predictable execution for lightweight compute tasks. The ecs.ic5.2xlarge is best suited for low-memory, compute-focused workloads such as basic batch processing, utility scripting, and small-scale model inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.38Score
      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) 624,239 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.33 50.00% 50.00% -43.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,694,339 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.31 20.00% 20.00% -21.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,521 2,417 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 43,694 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,659 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 996

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,814

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 7018
      Compression
      		 91738
      Encryption
      		 2728
      Extended Instructions
      		 6070
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10572
      Integer Maths
      		 19694
      Physics
      		 765
      Prime Numbers
      		 46
      Single Threaded
      		 1659
      String Sorting
      		 12129

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1521
      Database Operations
      		 2218
      Memory Latency
      		 75
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19385
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6715
      Memory Write
      		 6934

      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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