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ecs.u1-c1m2.4xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.u1-c1m2.4xlarge is a ecs.u1 family (16 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0304 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15441
(All-cores)
1877
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.u1-c1m2.4xlarge
Description
ecs.u1 family (16 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.u1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-05T00:08:26.257554

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Heyuan (CN) / cn-heyuan
0.0304 USD/h 0.3037 USD/h
Ulanqab (CN) / cn-wulanchabu
0.0577 USD/h 0.3037 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
0.0435 USD/h 0.4347 USD/h
Qingdao (CN) / cn-qingdao
0.06305 USD/h 0.4347 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
0.0826 USD/h 0.4347 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 0.4347 USD/h
Chengdu (CN) / cn-chengdu
- 0.4347 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 0.4347 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.4347 USD/h
Silicon Valley (US) / us-west-1
0.134 USD/h 0.5582 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 0.6318 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.1541 USD/h 0.6422 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-1
0.07625 USD/h 0.663 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.7055 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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, cpuid_fault, 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
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

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
      Network Speed Baseline
      5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated 16-core Intel Xeon compute-optimized instance designed for balanced processing workloads, web serving, and database operations.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.u1-c1m2.4xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 16 dedicated Intel Xeon physical cores operating at 2.5 GHz and 32.0 GB of RAM. Running on the KVM hypervisor, this server provides a 1:2 core-to-memory ratio, a 33 MB L3 cache, and a baseline network bandwidth of 5 Gbps, with no local storage or GPU accelerators included. Benchmark results indicate steady mid-range performance, with a PassMark CPU score of 19226.97 and a Redis SET throughput of 15.82 million operations per second. The instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for compute-heavy tasks that do not demand high memory density. It is best suited for web serving, database operations, and moderate computational workloads such as lightweight LLM inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.891Score
      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) 1,702,791 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.891 50.00% 50.00% -5.61%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,886,335 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.852 20.00% 20.00% -3.15%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,310 2,416 0.956 10.00% 10.00% -0.45%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 87,412 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.81 10.00% 10.00% -2.09%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,348 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.993 10.00% 10.00% -0.07%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      19227
      Compression
      246166
      Encryption
      8468
      Extended Instructions
      13985
      Floating Point Maths
      34269
      Integer Maths
      66944
      Physics
      1859
      Prime Numbers
      120
      Single Threaded
      2348
      String Sorting
      34312

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      2310
      Database Operations
      7794
      Memory Latency
      54
      Memory Read Cached
      23896
      Memory Read Uncached
      8816
      Memory Write
      8827

      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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