15th July Meetup on ECS deep dive with demo and explanation on connecting services.

1. Elastic Compute Service
Deep Dive Meetup
Chirag Nayyar
Alibaba Cloud Singapore Community
15th July 2020

2. About
Started Career in 2016
Alibaba Cloud MVP
Bunch of Cloud Certifications
youtube.com/datacenteroncloud

3. Agenda
• What is ECS and its Important
• What is underneath ECS
• Uncovering the connected dots
• How to choose ECS for different use cases
• Demo
• Q/A

4. Alibaba Cloud Geo Design
Image- Alibaba Cloud Docs

5. Elastic Compute Service & Importance
• ECS is a web service which provision Compute
• Secure, fast provision, flexible
• It consist vCPU/Memory and connected with
Network/Storage Disk
• Virtualized environment running on Custom Hypervisor
• Many types and families
• Base of many other Services
• Zonal Resource
• Create it via Console, CLI and SDK
• All the Major OS available

6. SLA!!
• Single Zone - 99.975% ~ 10m 57s*
• Multi Zone - 99.995% ~ 2m 11s*
*Its monthly Uptime which is very competitive in market
*In Case of Failure of Meeting Uptime SLA, Customer will get credits
Alibaba SLA - https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/42436.htm

7. Instance Families and type
• General Purpose - g6,g5 1:4 X-Dragon Architecture
• Compute Optimized - c6,c5 1:2 X-Dragon Architecture
• Memory Optimized - r6,r5 1:8 X-Dragon Architecture
• Storage Optimized - d2s, i2 1:8 Local SSD Support
• Burstable Performance Instance - t6,t5 (Special characteristics)
* There are more than 70+ different instance types which consist
various vCPU:memory and storage characteristic
Full list reference- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-
detail/25378.htm?spm=a2c63.p38356.b99.44.55856120KkPJsR

8. Instance Family Selection
Image- Alibaba Cloud Docs

9. Instance Name Terminology
ecs.g6.xlarge
Instance family Instance size
Instance
generation

10. Key Points to remember?
• Know the different pricing Mechanism – PYAG, Subscription/RI, Preemptable
• Benchmarking is most missing part
• Know the purpose of workload which is going to deploy on ECS and place in proper
subnet
• Security is important at each layer
• Storage is most toughest part here. (hint- its SAN)
• Last but not least- Know your ECS Account Limits

11. Alibaba Clouder Courses and Certificate
• Quiz 1- Operate and Manage a Cloud Server
https://edu.alibabacloud.com/clouder/exam/intro/152
• Quiz 2 - Build Your First Personal Website On Alibaba Cloud Using ECS
https://edu.alibabacloud.com/clouder/exam/intro/259

12. Resources
Pangu and X Dragon Architecture
• https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25367.htm
• https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/pangu-the-high-performance-
distributed-file-system-by-alibaba-cloud_594059
• https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/introducing-the-sixth-
generation-of-alibaba-clouds-elastic-compute-service_595716

13. Stay Update
• Join Ding Talk Group – Scan the QR Code
• Join Meetup Group - https://bit.ly/alibabaSG

14. Q/A