Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

Unleash the power of the cloud to take on workloads of any scale

Unleash the power of the cloud to take on workloads of any scale

ECS Advantages

Elastic, flexible cloud migration that is easy and inexpensive

Elastic, flexible cloud migration that is easy and inexpensive

- You can use a web-based console or open APIs to manage your ECSs.

- You can configure auto scaling policies to add or remove ECS instances automatically.

- ECS provides pay-per-use, yearly/monthly, and spot price billing modes for you to choose from.

Flagship products with robust performance

Flagship products with robust performance

- ECSs with up to 208 vCPUs and 4,096 GiB of memory are available to deliver industry-leading computing power.

- 10-million PPS performance is industry-leading performance. Intranet bandwidth for individual ECSs reaches up to 44 Gbit/s.

- Thousands of ECSs can be provisioned within minutes.


A wide range of specifications, catering to your needs

A wide range of specifications, catering to your needs

- A broad range of servers are available for you to choose from: x86, Kunpeng, Ascend, and heterogeneous ECSs.

- You can use public, private, shared, and Marketplace images to create ECSs.

- ECSs and images can be deployed with just a few clicks without any configurations for website setup and application development.


A solid data platform, ensuring data reliability

A solid data platform, ensuring data reliability

- Nine nines (99.9999999%) of data durability, ensuring your data security and reliability.

- A variety of EVS disk types are available for different needs: extreme SSD, ultra-high I/O, general purpose SSD, and high I/O.

- You can share or encrypt disks, back up disks or servers, and create snapshots to satisfy demands of different services.

Multiple levels of protection, securing your data in the cloud

Multiple levels of protection, securing your data in the cloud

- Security vulnerabilities and threats can be detected, and configuration checks, suggestions, and best practices are provided to help you reduce or eliminate losses caused by viruses or online attacks.

- Professional anti-DDoS technologies are used to refine anti-DDoS capabilities for Internet applications.

- Working with the internationally renowned digital certificate service institute, Huawei provides one-stop lifecycle management of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates and Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates to offer reliable identity authentication and secure data transmission for websites.

FAQs About ECS

Why Can't I Log In to My Windows ECS?

A Windows ECS cannot be logged in to due to some reasons. For example, the network is abnormal, the firewall does not allow access to the local port for accessing the remote desktop, or the ECS vCPUs are overloaded.

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Why Can't My Windows ECS Access the Internet?

Your attempt to access the Internet from your Windows ECS failed. The access failure may be caused by lots of reasons. You can try to troubleshoot this fault here.

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How Do I Troubleshoot an Unresponsive Website Hosted on My ECS?

Websites running on an ECS might become unreachable for multiple reasons. Check whether the configurations of network, port, firewall, or security group of the ECS are correct.

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Why Accessing a Website Outside the Chinese Mainland Is Slow on an ECS?

Generally, an international line is used for accessing a website outside the Chinese mainland. However, the international line may inevitably pass through network nodes distributed around the world, resulting in high latency.

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How Can I Enable Virtual Memory on a Windows ECS?

Enabling ECS virtual memory will deteriorate I/O performance. If the memory size of an ECS is insufficient, you are advised to increase its memory size by referring to General Operations for Modifying Specifications. If you really need to enable virtual memory, see Enabling Virtual Memory on a Windows ECS.

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Why Is My ECS Not Displayed on the Management Console?

Log in to the console and select a region in which you created your ECS to see whether your ECS is displayed.

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How Is ECS Security Ensured?

Host Security Service (HSS) helps you identify and manage the assets on your servers, eliminate risks, and defend against intrusions and web page tampering. There are also advanced security functions available to help you easily detect and handle threats.

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Can an ECS Without an EIP Bound Access the Internet?

Yes. You can use the NAT Gateway service to allow ECSs in a VPC to access the Internet using an EIP. The SNAT function provided by the NAT Gateway service allows the ECSs in a VPC to access the Internet without requiring an EIP.

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Why Does Login to My ECS Using the Reset Password Fail?

If you cannot use the new password that you set using the one-click password reset function to log in to the ECS, locate the fault by referring to Why Does Login to My ECS Using the Reset Password Fail?

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How Can I Disable Operation Protection?

When you perform critical operations on your ECS with operation protection enabled, for example, deleting your ECS or modifying ECS specifications, you have to enter the password and verification code for authentication. To disable operation protection, see How Can I Disable Operation Protection?

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Videos About elastic ECS

ECS Service Introduction

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ECS Service Introduction

Setting Up an FTP Site (Windows)

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Setting Up an FTP Site (Windows)

Configuring Multi-User Logins for a Windows ECS

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Configuring Multi-User Logins for a Windows ECS

Modifying ECS Specifications

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Modifying ECS Specifications