Kingsoft Cloud Elastic Compute

Kingsoft Cloud Elastic Compute (KEC) is an important part of the cloud computing infrastructure provided by Kingsoft Cloud. KEC provides flexible and scalable processing capacity and helps developers easily perform Internet-scale computing and deploy needed server environment. Compared with physical servers, KEC instances are easier to use and provides higher operations and maintenance (O&M) efficiency. You can change the configurations of your KEC instances based on business needs.
Benefits
Features
Product Updates
Scenarios
Quick Start
Customers

Benefits

High Availability

KEC delivers 99.95% availability for instances and at least 99.999% data reliability for local disks.

Multiple Types

Multiple types of KEC instances are provided to cater to diversified business needs.

Scalability

KEC allows you to flexibly scale out resources. You can purchase resources based on your needs. This helps save your operation cost and improve resource utilization.

Security

KEC instances bound with elastic IP addresses (EIPs) offer up to 5 Gbit/s DDoS protection free of charge. Kingsoft Cloud Host Security (KHS) protects servers and websites against brute-force attacks and Trojan viruses and fixes system vulnerabilities and website vulnerabilities.

Disaster Recovery

Your KEC instances are deployed on different physical servers to further ensure the high availability of services.

Multiple Availability Zones

Fault isolation among availability zones is provided to ensure continuous business, achieving high availability of services in the same region.

Features

Disaster Tolerance Group

KEC instances are physically dispersed to ensure high availability. You can add or remove an instance at any time.

Quick Creation

You can create KEC instances with a few simple operations and start a hundred KEC instances in minutes.

Flexible Upgrade

You can upgrade the CPU, memory, and disk configurations of your KEC instances at any time.

Backup and Recovery

You can back up data in your system and data disks and recover data from backups.

Private Network

KEC allows you to deploy KEC instances in a virtual private cloud (VPC). You can flexibly plan your network of KEC instances to build a private space in Kingsoft Cloud.

Monitoring Statistics

KEC allows you to customize the thresholds for a variety of monitoring metrics. When the threshold of a specific metric is reached, KEC sends alarms to you through emails and SMS messages.

Image Customization

KEC allows you to create an instance and reinstall the system from a custom image.

Product Updates

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2018-08-07
New Features
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2018-10-22
New Features
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2019-02-18
New Features
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2019-04-22
New Features
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2019-06-10
New Features
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4th-Gen KEC Instances

I/O Optimized I4, Compute Optimized C4, and Standard S4 are released.
2019-11-06
New Features
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Spot Instances

A new billing mode for KEC instances.
2019-12-03
New Features
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2020-12-10
New Features
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2020-12-10
New Features
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2020-12-10
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2020-12-10
New Features
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2021-01-12
New Features

Scenarios

General scenario

Professional Scenarios

High I/O Scenarios

General scenario

Official websites, lightweight web applications, and small databases

Deployment Suggestion

Web services, applications, and databases that have general requirements for CPU, memory, and bandwidth can first be deployed on one or a few KEC instances. As your business grows, you can either add more KEC instances or upgrade the configurations of the current instances at any time to handle data requests during business surges.

Professional Scenarios

Websites and applications that offer rich media content.

Deployment Suggestion

Pair KEC with Kingsoft Cloud Standard Storage Service (KS3). KEC hosts websites and applications that contain tons of images and videos. KS3 stores static images, videos, or downloadables. This combination enables storage of massive data at low costs. In addition, activate Kingsoft Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Server Load Balancing (SLB) to cut down user access latency, reduce bandwidth costs, and improve availability.

High I/O Scenarios

High I/O applications such as self-built databases.

Deployment Suggestion

Create an I/O Optimized KEC instance that has high specifications and use it with local SSDs and SLB to ensure fast response to high I/O concurrency with higher data reliability and service availability.