Users can select images based on the earlier characteristics:
- Location
- Operating System Types
- Architecture (X86 or ARM; 32-bit or 64-bit)
Depending on the source, the image types include: public image, custom image, and shared image.
Public Image
Public Image is an image officially provided, supported, and maintained by Converge Cloud, including the basic operating system and initialization components provided by Converge Cloud, and can be used by all users.
Public Image Features:
- Operating System Types: free choice (eg: based on Linux type system or Windows type system), and regularly updated.
- Software Support: Integrate the software packages provided by Converge Cloud (such as API, etc.), and support multiple versions of common software such as Java, MySQL, SQL Server, Python, Ruby, and Tomcat, and their full permissions.
- Security: The operating systems provided are completely legal and compliant, and all use official genuine operating systems. Produced by the professional security Ops team within Converge Cloud, it has undergone rigorous testing and offers optional built-in security components.
- Restrictions: no use limits.
- Fees: Except for some images (such as Windows types in overseas regions) that require a certain license fee, the rest are all free.
Custom image
Custom Image It is an image created by the user through the image creation feature or imported through the image import function. Only the creator and the sharer can use it.
Custom Image Features:
- Use Cases: Create an image for a CVM instance that has an application deployed, so that you can quickly create more instances with the same configuration.
- Feature Support: Supports users to create, copy, share, and terminate.
- Restrictions: Each region supports up to 50 custom images.
- Fees: Creation may involve fees. The specific price is based on the price displayed when the instance is created. Cross-region replication of custom images is currently free of charge.
Shared Image
Shared Image refers to a custom image that is shared by another user to the current user through the image-sharing feature.
The shared image will be displayed in the same region as the original image of the shared user.
Shared Image Features:
- Use Cases: Help other users quickly create CVMs.
- Feature Support: Shared images can only be used to create CVMs. Other operations such as modifying the name, copying, and sharing are not allowed.
- Security: Shared images are not reviewed by Converge Cloud and may pose security risks. Therefore, it is strongly recommended not to accept images from unknown sources.
- Restrictions: Each custom image can be shared with up to 50 users. Image sharing only supports sharing to accounts in the same region.