Flexible Engine – Elastic Cloud Server
Introduces new C6 instances for dedicated computing use cases
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