ecs.n2.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n2.xlarge is a ecs.n2 family (8 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0595 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8,683
(All-cores)
1,105
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n2.xlarge
Description
ecs.n2 family (8 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T09:08:07.276512

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
0.0595 USD/h 0.595 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
0.0833 USD/h 0.595 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.595 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 0.595 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
7.9
Scalability
98.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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 eight-core general-purpose virtual machine offering balanced memory allocation and steady multi-threaded performance for standard workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n2.xlarge is an x86_64 general-purpose instance featuring 8 dedicated Intel Xeon 8163 physical cores running at 2.5 GHz, paired with 32.0 GB of RAM. It operates on the KVM hypervisor and does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmarks reveal a significant performance gap between single-core and multi-core execution; single-threaded capabilities are weak, whereas multi-core performance and memory bandwidth align with average industry standards. The instance achieves 10.22 million operations per second in Redis SET benchmarks and average results in software compilation. Given its balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and dedicated CPU allocation, the ecs.n2.xlarge is best suited for multi-threaded general-purpose workloads, caching layers, and moderate web serving tasks that do not depend on high single-core throughput.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.438Score
      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) 660,474 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.344 50.00% 50.00% -41.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,907,181 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.42 20.00% 20.00% -15.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,655 2,418 0.685 10.00% 10.00% -3.71%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 66,584 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.616 10.00% 10.00% -4.73%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,688 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.714 10.00% 10.00% -3.31%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 907

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,895

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 9930
      Compression
      		 136163
      Encryption
      		 3213
      Extended Instructions
      		 10603
      Floating Point Maths
      		 19204
      Integer Maths
      		 25672
      Physics
      		 1191
      Prime Numbers
      		 83
      Single Threaded
      		 1688
      String Sorting
      		 17648

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1655
      Database Operations
      		 2187
      Memory Latency
      		 80
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18306
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6414
      Memory Write
      		 6711

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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