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Public images

Public image overview

Public images are images officially provided by the platform with legitimate copyrights. Therefore, this type of image offers high security and stability. Currently, public images include the mainstream Windows Server and Linux images and self-developed veLinux images of the platform. They are available for all users to view or use.

Public image type

The platform provides self-developed, third-party, and open-source public images.

Public image type	Description	Technical support
veLinux image	A self-developed Linux operating system launched by the platform. veLinux is deeply customized and optimized for public cloud environments. This aims to provide you with a stable, high-performance, secure, and user-friendly Linux operating system option, as well as a comprehensive full-lifecycle management solution.	veLinux images provide long-term support that includes security updates and issue fixes, and technical support for any issues you encounter during usage.
Third-party and open-source public images	Images that the platform develops based on the community version. The platform carries out strict testing before releasing them. This ensures that images can run safely and stably on ECS instances. The images include: Commercial images: Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Open source images: CentOS, CentOS Stream, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux	For commercial edition images, the platform provides you with a license for activation and with technical support by working with original operating system manufacturers. For open-source images, please contact open source communities for technical support. Meanwhile, VolcanoEngine platform will also provide corresponding technical assistance for issue investigation.

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Fees may be incurred when you use commercial images. For details, refer to Billing of image.

The above technical support service is only available to images in their lifecycles. If an image version has reached the end of lifecycle (End of Life, EOL), the services will be provided based on the EOL image support policy. For details, refer to Operating system maintenance cycle.

The platform regularly releases or updates public images. To view the public image list, refer to the Image release notes, or go to the Image console.

veLinux image

Operating system type	Operating system version
veLinux	veLinux 2.0 64 bit veLinux 2.0 for TDX 64 bit veLinux 2.0 CentOS Compatible for TDX 64 bit veLinux 2.0 CentOS Compatible 64 bit
veLinux		veLinux 1.0 64 bit veLinux 1.0 Quick Boot 64 bit veLinux 1.0 MLPS(Dengbao) 64 bit veLinux 1.0 CentOS Compatible with 5.10 kernel 64 bit veLinux 1.0 CentOS Compatible 64 bit veLinux 1.0 with 5.10 kernel 64 bit

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veLinux images use UEFI as the default boot mode.

Third-party and open-source public images

Linux image

Operating system type	Operating system version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Red Hat 9.3 64 bit Red Hat 9.2 64 bit Red Hat 9.1 64 bit Red Hat 9.0 64 bit Red Hat 8.10 64 bit Red Hat 8.9 64 bit Red Hat 8.8 64 bit Red Hat 8.7 64 bit Red Hat 8.6 64 bit Red Hat 8.5 64 bit Red Hat 8.4 64 bit Red Hat 8.3 64 bit Red Hat 8.2 64 bit
CentOS	CentOS Stream 9 64 bit CentOS Stream 8 64 bit CentOS 8.3 64 bit CentOS 7.9 BIOS 64 bit CentOS 7.9 with ofed 23.10 64 bit CentOS 7.9 64 bit CentOS 7.8 64 bit CentOS 7.7 64 bit CentOS 7.6 with ofed 23.10 64 bit CentOS 7.6 64 bit CentOS 7.5 64 bit CentOS 7.4 64 bit CentOS 7.3 64 bit CentOS 7.2 64 bit CentOS 7.1 64 bit CentOS 6.9 64 bit
Ubuntu	Ubuntu 24.04 with LLM Knowledge Base 64 bit Ubuntu 24.04 64 bit Ubuntu 22.04 64 bit Ubuntu 22.04 BIOS 64 bit Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit Ubuntu 20.04 BIOS 64 bit Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit
Debian	Debian 12 64 bit Debian 11 64 bit Debian 10 64 bit Debian 10 BIOS 64 bit Debian 9 64 bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	SUSE 15 SP6 64 bit SUSE 15 SP5 64 bit
OpenSUSE	OpenSUSE 15.6 64 bit OpenSUSE 15.4 64 bit
Fedora	Fedora 37 64 bit
Rocky Linux	Rocky Linux 9.5 64 bit Rocky Linux 9.4 64 bit Rocky Linux 9.2 64 bit Rocky Linux 9.1 64 bit Rocky Linux 9.0 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.10 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.9 64 bit Rock Linux 8.8 with ofed 23.10 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.8 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.7 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.6 64 bit Rocky Linux 8.5 64 bit
AlmaLinux	AlmaLinux 9.4 64 bit AlmaLinux 9.3 64 bit AlmaLinux 9.2 64 bit AlmaLinux 9.1 64 bit AlmaLinux 8.10 64 bit AlmaLinux 8.9 64 bit AlmaLinux 8.8 64 bit AlmaLinux 8.7 64 bit

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BIOS images are in Beta. If you need a trial, please contact your account manager.

For the certification information of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and supported instance types, please visit the Red Hat official website.

Linux public images use UEFI as the default boot mode. For Linux public images of distributions that support BIOS, the boot mode is Legacy.

Windows Server image

Operating system type	Operating system version
Windows Server 2022	Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition 64-bit Chinese Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition 64-bit English
Windows Server 2019	Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition 64-bit Chinese Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition 64-bit English
Windows Server 2016	Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition 64-bit Chinese Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition 64-bit English
Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition 64-bit Chinese Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition 64-bit English

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Windows Server public images use Legacy as the default boot mode.