What's New
The tables below describe the functions released in each Elastic Cloud Server version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.
September, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
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I7n added for the ultra-high I/O ECS type |
I7n ECSs use the 3rd Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and high-performance local NVMe SSDs to provide high storage IOPS and low read/write latency. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Ir7n added for the ultra-high I/O ECS type |
Ir7n ECSs use the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to offer powerful and stable computing performance, use 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs to support ultra-high network bandwidth and PPS, and use high-performance local NVMe SSDs to provide high storage IOPS and low read/write latency. |
Commercial use |
June, 2023
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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Self-service troubleshooting |
ECS provides self-service tools to help you diagnose and troubleshoot your ECSs. You can use these tools to check the performance, networks, and disks of your ECSs as well as account status in a few clicks, and detect and fix problems based on the professional suggestions from Huawei Cloud. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
One-click password reset plug-in update |
A new version of the one-click password reset plug-in was released on June 15, 2023. If your current plug-in predates this date, upgrade the plug-in for improved stability. |
Commercial use |
December, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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Billing mode change for associated resources |
You can change the billing modes of certain associated resources together with the ECS to yearly/monthly. For associated resources whose billing modes cannot be changed together with the ECS to yearly/monthly, they will retain their original billing modes. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
General Computing-plus C7n ECSs |
C7n ECSs use third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors that feature enhanced computing, security, and stability. A C7n ECS can have a maximum number of 96 vCPUs and a memory speed of 3,200 MHz. C7n ECSs support secure boot, providing a secure and trusted cloud environment. |
Commercial use |
May, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
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1 |
Ultra-high I/O Ir3 ECSs |
Ir3 ECSs use Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to offer powerful and stable computing performance, 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs to support ultra-high network bandwidth and PPS, and high-performance local NVMe SSDs to provide high storage IOPS and low read/write latency. |
Commercial use |
March, 2022
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Auto launch group commercially used |
An auto launch group lets you customize configurations and rapidly create ECSs that are billed in different modes and distributed across multiple AZs to meet capacity targets. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Launch template commercially used |
You can use launch templates to store configuration parameters so that you do not have to specify them every time you create an ECS. For example, a launch template can contain the ECS specifications, network settings, and a key pair (excluding the password) that you typically use to create an ECS. |
Commercial use |
June, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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GPU-accelerated P2s ECSs |
P2s ECSs use NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs to provide flexibility, high-performance computing, and cost-effectiveness. |
Commercial use |
May, 2021
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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Auto launch groups |
An auto launch group lets you rapidly create ECSs distributed across multiple AZs, using a combination of different types of spot price and pay-per-use ECSs to meet capacity targets. |
Open beta testing |
November, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Hypervisor security |
The hypervisor isolates ECSs running on a physical server to prevent data theft and attacks. You can only access the ECSs allocated to you, including hardware and software resources and data. |
Commercial use |
October, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Customizable naming when multiple ECSs are created at the same time |
When creating multiple ECSs at the same time, you can select automatic naming or customizable naming to set the ECS names. Automatic naming: The system automatically adds a hyphen followed by a four-digit incremental number to the end of each ECS name. Customizable naming: You can customize a naming rule in the format "name_prefix[begin_number,bits]name_suffix". The system will automatically name the ECSs according to naming rule you specify. |
Commercial use |
How Can I Set Sequential ECS Names When Creating Multiple ECSs? |
August, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
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1 |
New APIs for obtaining ECS groups and details about ECS groups |
The APIs for obtaining ECS groups and details about ECS groups are available for use. |
Commercial use |
June, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
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1 |
GPU-accelerated Pi2 ECSs |
Pi2 ECSs use NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs dedicated for real-time AI inference. These ECSs use the T4 INT8 calculator for up to 130 TOPS of INT8 computing. The Pi2 ECSs can also be used for light-workload training. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Memory-optimized M3ne ECSs |
M3ne ECSs are suited for large-memory datasets with high network performance requirements. Using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Hi1822 high-speed intelligent NICs, the M3ne ECSs provide a maximum memory size of 512 GB based on DDR4 for large-memory applications with high requirements on network performance. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
IPv6 dual stack |
IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack allows your ECSs to use both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for private and public network communication. |
Open beta testing |
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4 |
General computing-plus C3ne ECSs |
C3ne ECSs provide higher computing and network forwarding capabilities than C3 ECSs. Using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs, the C3ne ECSs provide a maximum intranet bandwidth of 40 Gbit/s and 10 million PPS for enterprise-grade applications with high network performance requirements. |
Commercial use |
May, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Changing the VPC of an ECS |
You can change the VPC of an ECS by clicking Change VPC in the Operation column on the Elastic Cloud Server page. After the VPC is changed, the subnet, private IP address, and MAC address of the ECS will change. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Host Security Service (HSS) |
HSS is designed to improve the overall security for ECSs. It reduces intrusion risks with asset management, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, and baseline inspection functions. |
Commercial use |
April, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Kunpeng general computing-plus ECSs |
Kunpeng general computing-plus kC1 ECSs use Kunpeng 920 processors and 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs to enable powerful, high-performance computing network that meets the security, reliability, and cost requirements of government and Internet enterprises. |
Commercial use |
March, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
GPU-accelerated G5 ECSs |
G5 ECSs use NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and support DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan. These ECSs provide 16 GB of GPU memory and up to 4096 x 2160 resolution, meeting requirements on professional graphics processing. |
Commercial use |
January, 2020
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
M6 ECSs |
M6 ECSs use second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with technologies optimized to offer powerful and stable computing performance. Using 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs, M6 ECSs provide a maximum memory size of 512 GB based on DDR4 for large-memory applications with high requirements on network bandwidth and PPS performance. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
C6 ECSs |
C6 ECSs use second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with technologies optimized and 25GE high-speed intelligent NICs to offer powerful and stable computing performance, including ultra-high network bandwidth and PPS. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
S6 ECSs |
S6 ECSs are suitable for applications that require moderate performance generally but occasionally burstable high performance, such as light-workload web servers, enterprise R&D and testing environments, and low- and medium-performance databases. |
Commercial use |
October, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Ultra-high I/O ECSs |
Ultra-high I/O ECSs use high-performance local NVMe SSDs to provide high storage IOPS and low read/write latency. The ratio of vCPU to memory is 1:8. You can create such ECSs with high-performance NVMe SSDs attached on the management console. |
Commercial use |
September, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Spot price ECSs |
Huawei Cloud sells idle computing resources at a discount. The price changes in real time depending on market demands. This is the spot price billing mode. An ECS billed in spot price billing mode is a spot price ECS. |
Commercial use |
July, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Optimized ECS product architecture |
ECS works with other products and services to provide computing, storage, network, and image installation functions. |
Commercial use |
June, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
CPU credits |
CPU credits measure computing, storage, and network resource usage of an ECS. ECSs use CPU credits to ensure baseline performance, preventing issues caused by CPU overcommitment. |
Commercial use |
May, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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Notes on using ECSs |
Notes on using ECSs are provided for you before you use ECSs. |
Commercial use |
April, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Memory-optimized ECSs of flavor m3.15xlarge.8 |
Memory-optimized ECSs have a large memory size and provide high memory performance. They are designed for memory-intensive applications that process a large amount of data, such as precision advertising, e-commerce big data analysis, and IoV big data analysis. |
Commercial use |
March, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Reserved instances (RIs) |
An RI is not an actual instance, but a billing discount that can be applied to the use of pay-per-use ECSs in your account. The combination of RIs and pay-per-use payments fully utilizes the flexibility of pay-per-use resources at lower costs. |
Commercial use |
January, 2019
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
S6 ECSs in OBT |
S6 ECSs are suitable for applications that require moderate performance generally but occasionally burstable high performance, such as light-workload web servers, enterprise R&D and testing environments, and low- and medium-performance databases. |
Open beta testing |
October, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Brand-new page for purchasing ECSs |
On the ECS purchase page, navigation items have been classified for clearer purchase guide. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Batch renewal for yearly/monthly ECSs |
This feature allows you to renew your yearly/monthly ECSs in a batch, simplifying renewals. |
Commercial use |
July, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Change Security Group available on the page providing all purchased ECSs |
The Change Security Group option has been added to the More drop-down list in the Operation column. This feature is suitable for you to frequently change the security group for an ECS. |
Commercial use |
June, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Using an existing ECS to create an image |
You can create a private image using an existing ECS. This image contains an OS, preinstalled public applications, and the user's private applications, and is available only to the user who created it. |
Commercial use |
May, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Purchasing the same ECS |
This feature allows you to buy ECSs with the same configuration as that of an existing one. Use this feature when you need to quickly purchase ECSs with the same configurations. |
Commercial use |
April, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Modifying ECS specifications and types |
ECS specifications, such as vCPUs and memory, can be modified after the ECS is created to meet service requirements. Certain ECSs also allow you to change the ECS types. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Data copy-paste on VNC-logged ECSs |
After logging in to an ECS using VNC, data can be copy-pasted. |
Commercial use |
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3 |
Viewing details about an error task on the management console |
If there is a system error or a task failed to process, the number of errors is displayed on the management console. You can click the number to view details about these errors. |
Commercial use |
January, 2018
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Rapid ECS search |
ECSs can be rapidly searched by tag. You can add tags to an ECS during ECS creation or on the page providing details of the ECS after the ECS creation. |
Commercial use |
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2 |
Viewing ECS running statuses |
Cloud Eye is available for you to monitor the running statuses of your ECSs. |
Commercial use |
November, 2017
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Resetting the ECS login password with a few clicks |
This feature allows you to obtain a new password for logging in to an ECS if the login password has been lost or expired. |
Commercial use |
Resetting the Password for Logging In to an ECS on the Management Console |
October, 2017
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No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
OS reinstallation |
This feature allows you to reinstall an ECS OS if the OS fails to start or requires optimization. |
Commercial use |
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