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What Is Huawei Cloud Flexus X Instance?

Huawei Cloud Flexus X Instance (FlexusX) is a next-generation out-of-the-box cloud service designed for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developers.

FlexusX is a next-generation flexible cloud server designed for SMEs and developers. It can intelligently get aware of application workloads. It is a good choice for moderate and light workloads, such as e-commerce livestreaming, enterprise website setup, development and testing environments, game servers, and audio and video services. Compared with the Flexus L Instance (FlexusL), FlexusX offers a wide range of public images, allows you to customize vCPU-to-memory ratios, and can dynamically change specifications based on service workload.

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Application Scenarios

  • E-commerce livestreaming: building e-commerce transaction platforms on FlexusX instances to easily handle spikes and lulls in the e-commerce traffic.
  • Enterprise website setup: helping enterprises set up platforms such as blogs, forums, and websites.
  • Individual development and testing: easily and cost-effectively building development and testing environments on FlexusX instances.
  • Game servers: creating game servers with robust computing power of FlexusX instances to allow thousands of plays to play games simultaneously. It can smoothly scale to handle the sudden increase of online players in games. It also offers strong network acceleration capabilities to improve user experience.

Advantages

  • A variety of public images are available for you to choose from.
  • Service changes can be intelligently detected and specifications can be dynamically adjusted.
  • vCPU-to-memory ratios can be flexibly customized.
  • FlexusX instances support refined and flexible billing modes and intelligently recommend instance specifications for instance specifications.

Interactions Between FlexusX and Other Cloud Services

FlexusX instances can work with other cloud services to provide compute, image, network, storage, and security resources. You can flexibly configure such resources as needed.

Cloud Service

Description

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Image Management Service (IMS)

IMS provides public, private, and shared images for you to quickly deploy FlexusX instances.

Managing Images

Elastic Volume Service (EVS)

EVS provides storage space for FlexusX instances, and EVS disk snapshots can be used for data backup and restoration.

Managing EVS Disks

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

VPC helps you build your own private network on the cloud. You can set subnets and security groups within your VPC for further isolation.

Managing Elastic Network Interfaces

Elastic IP (EIP)

EIPs enables FlexusX instances to communicate with external networks.

Managing EIPs

Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR)

CBR backs up data for FlexusX instances or their EVS disks and can restore data of servers and disks using backups.

Managing Backups

Cloud Eye

Cloud Eye monitors resource usage of FlexusX instances and allows you to view the resource status.

Managing Server Monitoring

Host Security Service (HSS)

HSS detects risks in FlexusX instances in real time to reduce the risk of intrusion.

Configuring HSS for a FlexusX Instance

Billing Modes

FlexusX instances support yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes to meet your requirements in different scenarios. You can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use, and vice versa. For more information, see Billing.

Differences Between FlexusX, FlexusL, and ECS

  • A FlexusL instance is a package of resources that include cloud servers, EVS disks, EIPs, CBR vaults, and HSS. Resources in the package are created and managed as a whole. FlexusL instances provide various images to help you quickly set up service environments. FlexusL instances are easy to use and are friendly to beginners in cloud computing.
  • FlexusX is a next-generation flexible compute cloud server service designed for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developers. FlexusX offers similar functions to ECS. It also supports flexible vCPU/memory ratios. Compared with FlexusL, FlexusX offers more public images and more flexible specifications.
  • An ECS instance can run high-load applications. It provides multiple billing modes, flavor types, image types, and disk types. You can customize ECS configurations for different service scenarios.
  • FlexusX instances use the same underlying hardware resources as ECS instances and deliver the same compute performance as ECS instances with the same specifications.
  • For high-load applications, you are advised to enable the performance mode for more stable performance.

For more information the differences between them, see What Are the Differences Between FlexusL, FlexusX, and ECS?

Access Methods

You can access FlexusX instances using a web-based management console.

If you have already signed up for Huawei Cloud, log in to the management console, choose Compute > Huawei Cloud Flexus from the service list, and click Flexus X Instance to access the FlexusX console.

If you have not signed up for Huawei Cloud, see Registering a HUAWEI ID and Enabling Huawei Cloud Services.