Specifications and performance for Alibaba Cloud - ecs.g8i.2xlarge
This plan belongs to the Alibaba Cloud g8i server line (General Purpose).
The Alibaba Cloud ECS g8i instance family is a general-purpose offering utilizing the innovative CIPU architecture. It features 4th and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (including Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids) with a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, providing consistent computing performance and a robust I/O engine. These instances offer chip-level security hardening and hardware acceleration for cryptographic and AI workloads (like Intel QAT and Intel AMX). They are suitable for a wide range of enterprise-level applications, including game servers, databases, caches, search clusters, websites, application servers, data analytics, computing, AI training and inference, and audio/video transcoding.
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | $0.04 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | 4GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | INTEL |
| Shared CPU | no |
| Storage included | no |
See also all Alibaba Cloud instance types.
| Provider | Alibaba Cloud |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/general-purpose-instance-families |
| Price per month | $198.67 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.3460/hour |
| Disk GB | 0 |
| Num Cores | 8 |
| Memory GB | 32 |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 0 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | Yes |