Chinese bare metal and server hosting company Alibaba Cloud is preparing to trial a new instance type powered by custom Arm-based silicon.
The new Yitian 710 server processor, first unveiled in October, will underpin Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances powered by a varying number of vCPUs, each of which will be tied to a physical core.
Under the preview program, which will last only two months and support just 100 customers, a single configuration will be available, with 4 vCPUs, 16GB memory and 3Gbit/sec network bandwidth.
