Introduce new M6 instances for memory optimized 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 |
|
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