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What Is Flexus X Instance?

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

FlexusX is a next-generation flexible cloud server service designed for SMEs and developers. It provides application-defined cloud servers with intelligent awareness of service 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 support for various public images, allows custom vCPU to memory ratios, supports dynamic specifications changes based on intelligently detected service changes, and accommodates a higher load range.

Application Scenarios

  • E-commerce livestreaming: building e-commerce transaction platforms on FlexusX instances to handle spikes and lulls in the e-commerce market
  • Enterprise website setup: helping enterprises set up platforms such as blogs, forums, and websites to communicate and spread information
  • Individual development and testing: building development and testing environments on FlexusX instances easily and cost-effectively
  • Game servers: creating game servers with robust computing power using FlexusX instances to support 1,000+ players online at the same time, smooth scaling to handle the sudden increase of online players, and strong network acceleration capability to improve user experience.

Advantages

  • A variety of public images and versions are provided for you to choose from.
  • Service changes can be intelligently detected and specifications can be dynamically adjusted, allowing for a higher workload range.
  • vCPU and memory specifications can be flexibly customized.
  • FlexusX instances support the flexible pay-per-user billing mode and provide intelligent recommendations for instance specifications.

Resource Configuration

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

Service

Description

Image Management Service (IMS)

IMS provides public, private, and shared images for you to quickly install OSs on FlexusX instances.

Elastic Volume Service (EVS)

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

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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

Elastic IP (EIP)

EIPs enables FlexusX instances to connect to external networks.

Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR)

CBR backs up data for FlexusX instances and EVS disks and supports restoring data of servers and disks using backups.

Cloud Eye

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

Host Security Service (HSS)

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

Billing Modes

FlexusX instances support the 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 together. FlexusL instances provide various featured application images to help you quickly set up service environments. FlexusL instances are easy to use and friendly to beginners in cloud computing.
  • FlexusX is a next-generation flexible cloud server service designed for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developers. FlexusX provides functions similar to what ECS provides. It also supports flexible vCPU/memory ratios. Compared with FlexusL, FlexusX offers more public images and more flexible specifications, and can bear higher workloads.
  • An ECS instance is a server that supports high-load scenarios. 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.