Launch enterprise cloud servers in Pakistan — in minutes, not months.
Elastic Compute Server – General Purpose (ECS-GP) gives you on-demand virtual machines hosted inside Pakistan, with flexible CPU/RAM flavors, hourly PAYG billing in PKR, and a 99.999% SLA backed by Tier-3 infrastructure.
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Enterprise virtual machines — provisioned on demand, billed by the hour.
ECS – General Purpose is a cloud compute service that lets you create, develop and launch business applications on flexible, secure, and on-demand virtual machines hosted inside Pakistan. Skip the procurement, racking, OS patching, and capacity planning — spin up production-ready compute through a simple console or API in minutes. Scale up, scale down, scale east-west — all without contracts, all in PKR.
Built for the workloads that actually run Pakistan.
Four reasons enterprise teams choose QCloud ECS-GP over racking their own boxes or paying global hyperscalers in dollars.
Enterprise-Level Security
ECS-GP is engineered to meet the most rigorous security and compliance standards. Hardware encryption, virtual firewalls, RAM-based access control, anti-DDoS, vulnerability scanning, and at-rest encryption — built-in, not bolted on.
Highly Available — by Design
Multi-zone redundancy, automated hardware-failure recovery, and a single-instance availability of 99.975% (multi-AZ deployments reach 99.999%). Your workloads keep running even when the underlying hardware doesn't.
Elastic & Flexible Scaling
Choose from a rich catalog of flavors and pre-built OS images. Define your own scaling rules, scale up/down or east/west in seconds, and pay only for what you use — no over-provisioning, no idle capacity tax.
Disaster Recovery — Inside Pakistan
Extend business continuity across multiple regions inside Pakistan with redundant infrastructure, automated replication, and orchestrated failover. RPOs in seconds, RTOs in minutes — your data never leaves the country.
Production-grade primitives. Without the production-grade complexity.
Three core capabilities power every ECS-GP workload — built for engineers, billed by the hour.
Server Management & Scheduled Snapshots
Organize, administer, and operate multiple servers as a single unit through server groups. Schedule snapshots for fast, atomic restores — and recover any instance to any point-in-time in a few clicks. One pane of glass, no SSH hopping.
- Group servers logically — prod, staging, dev, DR
- Schedule automated snapshots with policy-based retention
- Restore an entire group or a single instance — instantly
- Base OS
- Packages
- Security ACTIVE
- 4 Agents
- 5 Publish
Customization — Your OS, Your Way
Bake your own baseline OS templates with the exact packages, security hardening, monitoring agents, and compliance configurations your organization mandates. Deploy them across hundreds of instances in seconds — no drift, no surprises.
- Custom OS templates with pre-installed packages
- Built-in support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Windows Server
- Image versioning, sharing across projects, and rollback
Auto-Scaling, Load Balancing & Built-in Redundancy
ECS-GP is optimized end-to-end for high-performance workloads. Dedicated load balancing, native auto-scaling, and built-in redundancy mean your applications keep humming through traffic spikes, hardware failures, and weekend deployments alike.
- Native Auto Scaling — rules-based or schedule-based
- Dedicated Elastic Load Balancer integration
- Multi-zone redundancy with automated failover
Pick the shape that fits your workload.
Build cloud servers to your exact spec. Hourly billing, no contracts. Scale up, down, or out as your workloads demand.
From banks to broadcasters — ECS-GP runs the workloads that matter.
Pakistani enterprises across regulated and high-traffic industries trust ECS-GP for production workloads.
Banking & Fintech
Core banking, payment processing, KYC workloads, fraud-detection models — all within State Bank's data-residency mandate.
Telcos & ISPs
Customer-facing portals, billing systems, IVR backends, and OSS/BSS workloads — scaled elastically through traffic peaks.
Government & Public Sector
PECA-compliant workloads for federal and provincial departments, with sovereign-cloud guarantees.
E-commerce & Retail
Storefront servers, catalog DBs, order pipelines — auto-scale during sales events, scale down overnight.
Healthcare
EMR, lab pipelines, telemedicine backends — with data residency that maps to HIPAA-style controls.
Media & Broadcast
Streaming origins, transcoding clusters, content libraries — close to your viewers, billed in PKR.
ECS-GP vs traditional servers — the difference is hours, not weeks.
A side-by-side look at how cloud-native compute on QCloud compares to dedicated physical servers or basic VPS hosting.
QCloud ECS-GP
- Provisioning timeUnder 5 minutes
- BillingHourly PAYG in PKR
- ScalingElastic — up, down, east, west, on schedule
- Data residency100% inside Pakistan (KHI-1 / ISB-1)
- Disaster recoveryNative multi-region replication
- Support24/7 in-country specialists
Traditional / Foreign VPS
- Provisioning timeDays to weeks
- BillingMonthly/annual contracts, often in USD
- ScalingManual hardware refresh
- Data residencyOften offshore — compliance risk
- Disaster recoveryDIY, expensive, fragile
- SupportTickets · offshore queues · time-zones
Pay-as-you-go. Reserved. Or savings plans. Always in rupees.
Three flexible pricing models built for Pakistani finance teams. No FX exposure, no surprise invoices, no minimums.
Pay-As-You-Go
from PKR ~28/hrBilled by the hour, no commitment. Best for variable workloads, dev/staging, experimentation.
Reserved Instances
up to 40% off1- or 3-year reservations with up to ~40% discount. Best for steady production workloads.
Savings Plans
flexible spendCommit to a PKR hourly spend, get a discount across any flavor/region. Best for evolving stacks.
Try the QCloud pricing calculator
Configure your instances, attach storage, pick a region, and get a real PKR estimate — in seconds.
No login required · Live PKR rates · Instant quote
From signup to running production VMs — in under 24 hours.
A structured, supported provisioning flow. No long sales cycles, no upfront capex, no surprises.
Sign up & verify
5 minCreate your QCloud account, complete KYC, and unlock $100 free credit.
Configure your instance
10 minPick a flavor, region (KHI-1 or ISB-1), OS image, storage, and network — through the console, API, or Terraform.
Launch & connect
2 minVM boots in under 2 minutes. Connect via SSH/RDP, attach your data disk, configure your security group.
Scale, monitor, optimize
ongoingUse Auto Scaling, snapshots, and the self-service portal to right-size and protect every workload.
Numbers that matter when production is on the line.
ECS-GP runs on PTCL's Tier-3 / Rated-3 certified data centers, engineered for the workloads that run Pakistan — Oracle, SAP, banking cores, telco BSS, broadcast origins.
Everything you need to know before you provision.
ECS-GP is QCloud's flagship Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering — on-demand virtual machines hosted inside Pakistan with balanced CPU, memory, and network resources. It's designed for everyday production workloads: web servers, application tiers, mid-tier databases, internal tools, dev/staging environments, and more.
Once your account is verified, a typical VM boots and is reachable in under 5 minutes. Most new customers go from signup to a running production instance in under 24 hours — including KYC, network setup, and security configuration.
Pay-as-you-go by the hour, in PKR. You can also commit to 1- or 3-year Reserved Instances for up to ~40% savings on steady workloads, or use Savings Plans for a flexible PKR hourly commit. No contracts, no minimums on PAYG, and no foreign-exchange exposure.
Yes. Vertical scaling (changing flavor) typically requires a short reboot. Horizontal scaling — adding or removing instances behind a load balancer — is fully online and can be automated via Auto Scaling rules (schedule-based or metric-based).
Inside Pakistan. Every ECS-GP instance, every attached volume, every snapshot, and every DR replica resides in PTCL's Tier-3 / Rated-3 certified data centers in Karachi (KHI-1) and Islamabad (ISB-1). Nothing leaves the country.
Out-of-the-box images for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Debian, and Windows Server. You can also bring your own custom golden images, version them, and deploy them across your fleet.
We support custom flavors and bare-metal options on request. Talk to our cloud architects — most custom configurations can be ready in a few business days.
Our migration team runs a structured cloud assessment, identifies dependencies, plans the cutover, and executes with minimal downtime. Most workloads migrate in 4–8 weeks. Migration support is included with your QCloud engagement.
Spin up your first ECS-GP instance with $100 in credit.
1-month free trial. Pay-as-you-go in PKR after that. Structured cloud assessment, migration support, and 24/7 in-country specialists — all included.
No credit card required · Production workloads welcome · PKR billing