ecs.n1.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n1.xlarge is a ecs.n1 family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.392 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8,476
(All-cores)
1,107
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n1.xlarge
Description
ecs.n1 family (8 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T01:09:14.180399

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.392 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 0.392 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.392 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.392 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.392 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
8269CY
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, 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
7.7
Scalability
96.25

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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated multi-core x86_64 virtual server with a balanced compute-to-memory ratio, optimized for parallelized workloads without local storage requirements.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n1.xlarge is an x86_64 virtual machine instance running on the KVM hypervisor, equipped with a dedicated Intel Xeon 8269CY processor. It provides 8 vCPUs (4 physical cores with hyper-threading) running at 2.5 GHz, 16.0 GB of RAM, and no local storage or GPU resources. Performance benchmarks reveal a contrast between weak single-core execution and average multi-core capabilities. The instance achieves a Geekbench multi-core score of 4900.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 10044.03, while single-core metrics fall into the bottom 10% to 25%. Memory read-only bandwidth averages 62.93 GB/sec for large blocks. Given its 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and lack of local storage, the ecs.n1.xlarge is qualitatively cost-effective for parallelized, non-storage-intensive workloads such as software compilation, basic web serving, and multi-threaded processing tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.44Score
      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) 690,991 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.36 50.00% 50.00% -40.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,898,681 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.41 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,579 2,417 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 67,818 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,685 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 927

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,900

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 10044
      Compression
      		 136963
      Encryption
      		 3317
      Extended Instructions
      		 10761
      Floating Point Maths
      		 19400
      Integer Maths
      		 25663
      Physics
      		 1223
      Prime Numbers
      		 80
      Single Threaded
      		 1685
      String Sorting
      		 17851

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1579
      Database Operations
      		 2204
      Memory Latency
      		 79
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19565
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6101
      Memory Write
      		 6605

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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