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Alibaba Cloud launches 2026 limited-time promotion. According to a roundup published by Alibaba Cloud Developer Community AI, this promotion covers lightweight application servers, ECS, GPU cloud servers, databases, OSS storage, and the large model service platform. Specific offers include: lightweight 2-core 2G new user flash sale at 38 yuan per year, ECS economy e-instance at 99 yuan per year, general-purpose computing u1 instance at 199 yuan per year, GPU newcomer monthly package starting at 50% off and annual package starting at 40% off, RDS MySQL entry tier as low as 99 yuan per year, PolarDB MySQL single-node edition as low as 15% of the original price, OSS as low as 118.99 yuan per year with the same price for new purchases and renewals. There are currently no subsequent developments.
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Oct 25
Alibaba Cloud Developer Community AI
Alibaba Cloud Server Buying Guide: Lightweight 38 yuan/year, ECS 99 yuan/year, GPU T4 annual package just over 10,000 yuan
Alibaba Cloud offers three price tiers for 2026: Lightweight Application Server at 38 yuan/year, ECS Cloud Server at 99 yuan/year, and GPU Server T4 annual package at about 16,141.8 yuan. For ECS, the 99 yuan e-instance and the 199 yuan u1-instance have the same price for new purchases and renewals; the promotion runs until March 31, 2029, and you can renew once per year at the same price. Lightweight Application Servers do not support upgrading or downgrading configurations; to scale up, you need to migrate to ECS.
Oct 14
aliyun_developer_ai
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