ECS Instances

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: 4 minutes and 51 seconds
Students: 1,017
Rating: 4.6/5

This lesson introduces you to Alibaba’s Elastic Compute Service, or ECS, one of the most common services within the Alibaba platform. It is a high-performance, stable, reliable, and scalable compute service that allows you to deploy virtual servers within your Alibaba Cloud environment. Most people will require some form of ECS Instance running within their environment as a part of at least one of their solutions.

This lesson covers the following components:

  • ECS Concepts
  • ECS Instances
  • ECS Images
  • ECS Storage
  • ECS Snapshots
  • ECS Security Groups and
  • ECS Networks

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Intended Audience

This lesson is designed for IT professionals who are just starting out in the world of Alibaba Cloud and want to know more about the ECS service it offers.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should already have some basic knowledge of cloud computing. If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before taking this lesson, please consider taking our What is Cloud Computing? lesson.

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