Alibaba Cloud ECS

Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is a foundational Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that provides scalable virtual servers in the cloud. It allows users to provision and manage virtual machines with various CPU, memory, storage, and network configurations to host…

Key facts

First appeared: 2011
Category: technology
Problem solved: Alibaba Cloud ECS was created to solve the problem of static, capital-intensive, and inflexible on-premises IT infrastructure. It provides highly scalable, on-demand, and cost-effective virtualized compute resources, enabling businesses to rapidly deploy applications without significant upfront investment or hardware management overhead.
Platforms: Alibaba_Cloud_Infrastructure (hosts guest OS like Linux, Windows)

Related technologies

Ansible
Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB)
Docker
Terraform
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB (e.g., RDS, MongoDB)
Alibaba Cloud CDN

Notable users

Numerous enterprises across various industries in China and globally leveraging Alibaba Cloud for their digital operations.
Alibaba Group (Taobao, Tmall, Alipay)