ECS

Apr 29, 2026 Alibaba Cloud Full Stack 52 min read

Alibaba Cloud Full Stack (2): ECS — Compute That Actually Makes Sense

Everything you need to know about ECS: instance families (g8, c8, r8, GPU), pricing models, cloud-init automation, security groups, and key pairs. We deploy a production-ready app server from scratch.

Apr 28, 2026 Alibaba Cloud Full Stack 22 min read

Alibaba Cloud Full Stack (1): The Ecosystem Map — What Alibaba Cloud Actually Is

A no-BS guide to Alibaba Cloud's product ecosystem. We map every major service to its AWS/Azure/GCP equivalent, set up an account from scratch, and deploy our first ECS instance — all in under an hour.

Apr 17, 2026 OpenClaw QuickStart 20 min read

OpenClaw QuickStart (10): Production Deploy and the Failure Modes Nobody Warns You About

ECS, pm2, nginx, acme.sh — plus eight production failure modes and their fixes.

Mar 18, 2026 Terraform Agents 32 min read

Terraform for AI Agents (4): Compute — ECS, ACK, or Function Compute?

The three places an agent's main loop can live on Aliyun: a long-running ECS instance with pm2, a Kubernetes pod on ACK, or a Function Compute invocation. The cost-crossover model I use to pick between them, and a real …