ecs.n2.large by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n2.large is a ecs.n2 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 0.298 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,315
(All-cores)
1,089
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n2.large
Description
ecs.n2 family (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16.33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T01:09:14.180507

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.298 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 0.298 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.298 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.298 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.298 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
8269CY
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, 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
4
Scalability
100

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 general-purpose virtual instance featuring four Intel Xeon vCPUs and sixteen gigabytes of memory for entry-level workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n2.large is a general-purpose instance powered by the KVM hypervisor and an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8269CY processor. It features 4 dedicated vCPUs operating at 2.5 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of system memory. The instance does not include local storage or a GPU. Benchmark data indicates modest performance, with stress-ng single-core and multi-core CPU metrics placing in the bottom 25%. Memory bandwidth is also generally low, except for large block write speeds which reach average levels. With a Passmark database score of 1111.04 and Redis SET performance at 5.02 million operations per second, this instance is best suited for lightweight general-purpose tasks, basic web serving, and low-demand database operations where dedicated but entry-level compute resources are required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.26Score
      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) 334,337 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.17 50.00% 50.00% -59.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,569,952 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.22 20.00% 20.00% -26.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,470 2,417 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,783 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.44 10.00% 10.00% -7.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,692 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 873

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,768

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5202
      Compression
      		 67257
      Encryption
      		 1638
      Extended Instructions
      		 5297
      Floating Point Maths
      		 9575
      Integer Maths
      		 12714
      Physics
      		 704
      Prime Numbers
      		 41
      Single Threaded
      		 1692
      String Sorting
      		 8809

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1470
      Database Operations
      		 1111
      Memory Latency
      		 82
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19599
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6466
      Memory Write
      		 6741

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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