Managing Compute Resources with Alibaba ECS

This lesson explores Alibaba's Elastic Compute Service and the features it offers to manage your Alibaba instances. We'll look at the main applications of the ECS service before moving on to a couple of guided demos from the platform to show you how to use the ECS service.

Learning Objectives

• Get a foundational understanding of the main concepts of Alibaba ECS
• Learn about the different instances available in Alibaba Cloud, including their features and use cases
• Learn the capabilities and limitations of ECS storage
• Learn how to connect instances together through ECS networking, specifically through the use of VPCs
• Learn how to create an ECS instance and attach a data disk to it

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for anyone looking to use Alibaba ECS to manage their Alibaba Cloud workloads, as well as anyone studying for the ACP Cloud Computing certification exam.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of the Alibaba Cloud platform.