ecs.r6a.8xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.r6a.8xlarge is a ecs.r6a family (32 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.477 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
12,221
(All-cores)
764
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.r6a.8xlarge
Description
ecs.r6a family (32 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.r6a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T10:28:43.801387

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 1.477 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7H12
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
64 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, perfctr_core, ssbd, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
16
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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
      8 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized server featuring 256 GB of RAM and 32 dedicated AMD EPYC cores for memory-intensive database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.r6a.8xlarge is an x86_64 memory-optimized server featuring 32 dedicated physical cores powered by an AMD EPYC 7H12 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It is equipped with 256.0 GB of RAM, providing 8.0 GB of memory per core, but lacks local storage and GPU hardware. Network connectivity is established at an 8 Gbps baseline. Performance benchmarks indicate a clear tradeoff: single-core CPU performance is weak, ranking in the bottom 10%, and uncached large-block memory bandwidth is limited. However, multi-core performance and cached memory operations remain average, with a Passmark CPU score of 31304.25 and 26.09 million Redis SET operations per second. This profile makes the instance suitable for memory-intensive workloads such as database operations, caching layers, and enterprise applications where high RAM capacity is prioritized over raw single-threaded compute power.

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.03Score
      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) 2,269,441 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.18 50.00% 50.00% +8.63%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,771,861 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.35 20.00% 20.00% +6.19%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,654 2,418 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,386 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.336 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,119 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.896 10.00% 10.00% -1.09%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,243

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,156

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 31304
      Compression
      		 455401
      Encryption
      		 33466
      Extended Instructions
      		 25910
      Floating Point Maths
      		 64015
      Integer Maths
      		 106829
      Physics
      		 1681
      Prime Numbers
      		 134
      Single Threaded
      		 2119
      String Sorting
      		 49504

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2654
      Database Operations
      		 8843
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24294
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11761
      Memory Write
      		 11247

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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