Flexible Engine – Elastic Cloud Server
Introduce new M6 instances for memory optimized 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 |
|
m6.large.8 |
2 |
16 |
4/1.2 |
40 |
2 |
|
m6.xlarge.8 |
4 |
32 |
8/2.4 |
80 |
2 |
|
m6.2xlarge.8 |
8 |
64 |
15/4.5 |
150 |
4 |
|
m6.3xlarge.8 |
12 |
96 |
17/7 |
200 |
4 |
|
m6.4xlarge.8 |
16 |
128 |
20/9 |
280 |
8 |
|
m6.6xlarge.8 |
24 |
192 |
25/14 |
400 |
8 |
|
m6.8xlarge.8 |
32 |
256 |
30/18 |
550 |
16 |
|
m6.16xlarge.8 |
64 |
512 |
40/36 |
1000 |
32 |
Availability
M6 is generally available. It is launched in eu-west-0 region (Paris) and in eu-west-1 region (Amsterdam).
Benefits
M6 series offers an average of 95% better compute price performance over M2 series.
M6 instances has increased performances for the same amount of vCPU and RAM over M2 and M1 instances:
- on the network, with higher maximum throughput, guaranteed bandwidth and PPS
- on the computing, with an average 81% higher performances measured with the Phoronix Test Suite from OpenBenchmarking.org
Use Cases
M6 flavors are suited for applications that process large volumes of data and require a large amount of memory, rapid data switching and processing, and low-latency storage resources high requirements on network bandwidth and Packets Per Second (PPS). The targeted use cases are Big data analysis for precision advertising, e-commerce, and IoV, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and memory data analysis.
Limitations
M6 has a maximum number of vCPU of 64 and 512 GiB of RAM.
Console / API and Resources
As all other instance flavors, the new M6 series is available through the console and API.
More information on ECS memory optimized instances is available here