ecs.ic5.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.ic5.xlarge is a ecs.ic5 family (4 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 4 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0171 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,935
(All-cores)
1,103
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.ic5.xlarge
Description
ecs.ic5 family (4 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.ic5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T04:34:40.164713

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 0.154 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-5
- 0.168 USD/h
Ulanqab (CN) / cn-wulanchabu
- 0.171 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
0.0171 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
0.0266 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Qingdao (CN) / cn-qingdao
0.038 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.19 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.19 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 dedicated compute instance featuring a low memory-to-CPU ratio for lightweight, non-memory-intensive background processing and microservices.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.ic5.xlarge is an x86_64 compute-oriented virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8163 processor running at 2.5 GHz. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and provides a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark evaluations place its compute and memory performance in the lower tiers, with stress-ng, Geekbench, and memory bandwidth results consistently falling into the bottom 10% to 25% categories. Given its low memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1.0 GB per core, this instance is best suited for lightweight, compute-bound tasks with minimal memory requirements, such as basic web serving, simple microservices, and low-traffic background workers.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.22Score
      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) 308,480 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.16 50.00% 50.00% -60.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,919,465 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.16 20.00% 20.00% -31.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,229 2,417 0.5 10.00% 10.00% -6.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 27,023 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,652 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 984

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,207

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3647
      Compression
      		 45790
      Encryption
      		 1354
      Extended Instructions
      		 2985
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5275
      Integer Maths
      		 9830
      Physics
      		 481
      Prime Numbers
      		 26
      Single Threaded
      		 1652
      String Sorting
      		 6176

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1229
      Database Operations
      		 1126
      Memory Latency
      		 75
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19340
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7115
      Memory Write
      		 7273

      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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