CVM Overview
Tencent Cloud's Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) is a scalable computing service provided by Tencent Cloud. Utilizing CVMs eliminates the need to estimate resource usage and upfront investment associated with traditional servers, enabling you to quickly launch any number of cloud servers and promptly deploy applications.
CVMs allow users to customize all resources, including CPU, memory, storage, network, and security, and easily adjust them as needs change.
Using CVM instances
Tencent Cloud allows you to configure and manage CVM instances in the following ways:
Console: A web service interface provided by Tencent Cloud for configuring and managing CVM instances.
API: Tencent Cloud also offers API interfaces for managing CVM instances. For API documentation, please refer to API Overview.
SDK: You can use SDK programming or Tencent Cloud's Command Line Tool TCCLI to call CVM APIs.
Relevant Concepts
Before using Tencent Cloud CVM, you should familiarize yourself with the following concepts:
Concept | Note |
Virtual computing resources in the cloud, including fundamental components such as CPU, memory, operating system, network, and storage. Tencent Cloud offers various CPU, memory, storage, and network configurations for CVM instances. For more information, see Instance Types. | |
Pre-built templates for CVM instances include pre-configured operating systems and pre-installed software. CVM offers a variety of pre-built images, such as Windows and Linux. | |
A distributed and persistent block storage device provided by Tencent Cloud that can serve as the system disk or an expandable data disk of an instance. | |
Tencent Cloud offers a virtual and isolated network space, logically separated from other resources. | |
IP Addresses | Tencent Cloud provides Private IPs and Public IPs. In simple terms, private IPs offer Local Area Network (LAN) services for communication between CVM instances, while public IPs are used when users need to access Internet services on their CVM instances. |
Static public network IP addresses designed especially for dynamic networks to meet the demands for fast troubleshooting. | |
A virtual firewall that can check the status and filter data packets. As an important means for network security isolation, it can be used to set network access controls for one or more CBM instances. |
Purchasing and Customizing CVM Instances
If you are using a personal account and purchasing CVM instances for the first time, we recommend the following to get you started:
If you have specific needs that our standard CVM specifications cannot meet, use the following guides to learn how to obtain custom configurations:
CVM Prices
CVM offers both monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go billing options. For more information, see Pricing Overview.
For pricing details of CVM and related resources, see Product Pricing.
Other related products
You can use auto-scaling to automatically increase or decrease the number of server clusters based on a schedule or conditions. For more information, please refer to the Auto-Scaling Product Documentation.
You can use CLB to automatically allocate the request traffic of clients across CVM instances. For more information, see Cloud Load Balancer.
You can use Tencent Kubernetes Engine (TKE) to manage the application lifecycle on a group of CVM instances. For more information, see TKE Product Documentation.
You can use Tencent Cloud Observability Platform to monitor CVM instances and their system disks. For more information, please refer to Tencent Cloud Observability Platform Documentation.
You can deploy relational databases in the cloud or use Tencent Cloud's TencentDB. For more information, please see TencentDB for MySQL Product Documentation.