ECS - General purpose 1:8 End-of-Life

We would like to inform you of an important End-of-Life (EOL) announcement regarding ECS-based Virtual Machines in the OTC General Purpose flavor family. As part of our continuous efforts to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability, we are upgrading our cloud hardware stack to integrate the latest advancements in cloud technology.

Consequently, it has become necessary to discontinue some existing flavors. Therefore, we announce the EOL (End-of-Life) of the current s2 and s3 General Purpose flavors with a 1:8 ratio, effective June 30, 2025.

This announcement applies to customers under general Terms & Conditions as well as Enterprise Agreements. However, flavors operating at 1:1, 1:2, or 1:4 ratios will remain unaffected and will continue to deliver computing power for years to come.

List of affected flavors:

The key dates at a glance:

• 1st April 2025: Price increase of existing s2/s3 flavors operating on 1:8 ratio (published in the February Service-Description).
• 1st May 2025: End-of-Sale (EOS) date. No new deployments or scale-up operations will be possible after this date.
• 1st May 2025: End-of-Support (EOS) date. s2/s3 1:8 ratio VM's are not covered anymore by the OTC SLA and support is discontinued in PAYG / Elastic mode.
• 30th June 2025: End-of-Life (EOL) date. Migrations of VM's must be completed.

Action Required:

• Review current General Purpose instance operating on flavors ending with '.8'.
• Plan migration to the new instances before 1st April 2025 to avoid price increase, before 30th June 2025 to avoid losing the support.
• Please see more details and migration suggestion in the community blog ECS - End-of-Life General purpose flavors with 1:8 ratio

If required, please contact our support team for assistance with migration planning and execution.