Introduces new C6 instances for dedicated computing use cases
Flexible Engine
Release Notes
April 5, 2020
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is Flexible Engine’s virtual machine service based on Openstack which offers a wide choice of flavors designed to run your workloads on highly performant instances at the best price.
ECS has received the following updates:
Elastic Cloud Server is updated with a new S6 instance series in Paris region for general-purpose use cases. It provides a balance of computing, memory, and network resources and a baseline level of vCPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. These ECSs are suitable for many applications, such as web servers, enterprise development, and small to medium-performance databases.
S6 ECSs use the second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake Xeon Gold 6278 clocked at 2.6 GHz) and new smart Network Interface Cards at 25 Gbps per port.
This new ECS type is available in 9 different flavors, with a vCPU number/RAM GB ratio ranging from 1:1, 1:2 and 1:4.
|
Flavor Name |
CPU |
Memory |
Maximum/Assured Bandwidth (Gbit/s) |
Maximum PPS (10,000) |
NIC Multi-Queue |
|
c6.large.2 |
2 |
4 |
4/1.2 |
40 |
2 |
|
c6.xlarge.2 |
4 |
8 |
8/2.4 |
80 |
2 |
|
c6.2xlarge.2 |
8 |
16 |
15/4.5 |
150 |
4 |
|
c6.3xlarge.2 |
12 |
24 |
17/7 |
200 |
4 |
|
c6.4xlarge.2 |
16 |
32 |
20/9 |
280 |
8 |
|
c6.6xlarge.2 |
24 |
48 |
25/14 |
400 |
8 |
|
c6.8xlarge.2 |
32 |
64 |
30/18 |
550 |
16 |
|
c6.16xlarge.2 |
64 |
128 |
40/36 |
1000 |
32 |
|
c6.large.4 |
2 |
8 |
4/1.2 |
40 |
2 |
|
c6.xlarge.4 |
4 |
16 |
8/2.4 |
80 |
2 |
|
c6.2xlarge.4 |
8 |
32 |
15/4.5 |
150 |
4 |
|
c6.3xlarge.4 |
12 |
48 |
17/7 |
200 |
4 |
|
c6.4xlarge.4 |
16 |
64 |
20/9 |
280 |
8 |
|
c6.6xlarge.4 |
24 |
96 |
25/14 |
400 |
8 |
|
c6.8xlarge.4 |
32 |
128 |
30/18 |
550 |
16 |
|
c6.16xlarge.4 |
64 |
256 |
40/36 |
1000 |
32 |
Availability
C6 is generally available. It is now launched in eu-west-0 region (Paris) and eu-west-1 region (Amsterdam).
Benefits
C6 series offers an average of 38% better compute price performance over C3 and 83% over CC3 for instances up to 32 vCPU.
C6 instances has increased performances for the same amount of vCPU and RAM over C3 and CC3:
- on the network, with higher maximum throughput, guaranteed bandwidth and PPS
- on the computing, with an average 78% higher performances measured with the Phoronix Test Suite from OpenBenchmarking.org
Use Cases
C6 flavors are suited for Websites and web applications, generalized databases and cache servers, and medium- and heavy-load enterprise applications with strict requirements on computing and network performance.
Limitations
C6 has a maximum number of vCPU of 64 and 256 GiB of RAM.
Console / API and Resources
As all other instance flavors, the new C6 series is available through the console and API.
More information on ECS dedicated computing instances is available here