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What's New

Updated on 2024/09/06 GMT+08:00
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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

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

I7n added for the ultra-high I/O ECS type

I7n ECSs use the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and high-performance local NVMe SSDs to provide high storage IOPS and low read/write latency.

Commercial use

Ultra-high I/O ECSs

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

Ultra-high I/O ECSs

June 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

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.
ECS self-service tools include O&M monitoring, login troubleshooting, and network check. You can select a tool based on service requirements.

Commercial use

ECS Self-Service Tools

Can I Troubleshoot ECSs By Myself?

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

Installing the One-Click Password Reset Plug-in on an ECS

Updating the One-Click Password Reset Plug-in for an ECS

December 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

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

Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

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

General Computing-plus ECSs

May 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Ultra-high I/O ECSs

March 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Auto Launch Group

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

Launch Template

June 2021

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

GPU-accelerated P2s ECSs

P2s ECSs use NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs to provide flexibility, high-performance computing, and cost-effectiveness.

Commercial use

GPU-accelerated ECSs

May 2021

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

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

Auto Launch Groups

November 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Hypervisor Security

October 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Querying ECS Groups

Querying Details About an ECS Group

June 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

GPU-accelerated ECSs

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

Memory-optimized ECSs

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

Dynamically Assigning IPv6 Addresses

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

General Computing-plus ECSs

May 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Changing a VPC

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

Host Security Service

April 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Kunpeng General Computing-plus ECSs

March 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

G5 ECSs

January 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

M6 ECSs

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

C6 ECSs

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

S6 ECSs

October 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Ultra-high I/O ECSs

September 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Spot Pricing

July 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Optimized ECS product architecture

ECS works with other products and services to provide computing, storage, network, and image installation functions.

Commercial use

System Architecture

June 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

CPU Credits

May 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Notes on using ECSs

Notes on using ECSs are provided for you before you use ECSs.

Commercial use

Notes and Constraints on Using ECSs

April 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Memory-optimized ECSs

March 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Reserved Instance Overview

January 2019

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

S6 ECSs

October 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Brand-new page for purchasing ECSs

On the ECS purchase page, navigation items have been classified for clearer purchase guide.

Commercial use

Purchasing an ECS

2

Batch renewal for yearly/monthly ECSs

This feature allows you to renew your yearly/monthly ECSs in a batch, simplifying renewals.

Commercial use

Yearly/Monthly Pricing

July 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Changing a Security Group

June 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Creating an Image

May 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

Purchasing the Same ECS

April 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

General Operations for Modifying Specifications

2

Data copy-paste on VNC-logged ECSs

After logging in to an ECS using VNC, data can be copy-pasted.

Commercial use

Login Using VNC

Login Using VNC

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

Viewing Failures

January 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Monitoring ECS statuses

Cloud Eye is available for you to monitor the running statuses of your ECSs.

Commercial use

Monitoring ECSs

2

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

Adding Tags

November 2017

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

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

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

OS reinstallation

This feature allows you to reinstall an ECS OS if the OS fails to start or requires optimization.

Commercial use

Reinstalling the OS

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