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id: alibabacloud-ecs20140526
version: "7.9.6"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# alibabacloud-ecs20140526 — Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (20140526) SDK Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 163.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Alibaba Cloud SDK for Python that wraps the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) API, allowing developers to programmatically manage cloud compute instances, storage, networking, and related resources on Alibaba Cloud. It is built on top of alibabacloud-tea-openapi and darabonba-core, which handle the underlying HTTP transport and request serialization.

The SDK is actively maintained, supports Python 3.7 through 3.12, and is distributed as a pure wheel with low installation friction. It is intended for developers building applications that need to provision, configure, or monitor ECS resources on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure.

Use it for:

- Automate provisioning and teardown of ECS instances as part of infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Build management dashboards or monitoring tools that query ECS instance status and metrics.
- Integrate Alibaba Cloud compute resources into multi-cloud deployment pipelines.
- Programmatically configure networking, storage, and security groups for ECS instances.
- Develop cost-optimization scripts that scale instances based on demand.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides a Python SDK for interacting with Alibaba Cloud's Elastic Compute Service (ECS) API, enabling programmatic management of cloud compute resources.

Yes, if you are building on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure. The SDK is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, supports modern Python versions, and carries a permissive Apache 2.0 license. Install friction is low and the package is well-positioned in the ecosystem. Not relevant if you do not use Alibaba Cloud.

## Install

pip install alibabacloud-ecs20140526
uv add alibabacloud-ecs20140526
poetry add alibabacloud-ecs20140526

## Installing alibabacloud-ecs20140526

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a release 7 days old and recent commits. Depends on two runtime packages (alibabacloud-tea-openapi and darabonba-core) that handle the underlying API transport.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache License 2.0 (permissive), allowing commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for most production and proprietary projects.

Quickstart:

pip install alibabacloud_ecs20140526

from alibabacloud_ecs20140526 import client
# Instantiate and call ECS operations via the client

Requires Python >= 3.7; Alibaba Cloud credentials and configuration must be set up separately to authenticate API calls.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the SDK covers the full ECS API surface or a specific subset of operations.
- How authentication credentials are configured and whether environment variables, config files, or code-based setup is required.
- Whether there are rate limits or quotas imposed by Alibaba Cloud on API calls made through this SDK.

## Package facts

- License: Apache License 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 163.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

alibaba cloud ecs sdk, alibaba cloud compute api, aliyun ecs python, alibaba cloud vm management, cloud instance provisioning alibaba, alibaba ecs resource control, cloud-sdk, alibaba-cloud, infrastructure-automation

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