diff --git a/src/basic/virt.c b/src/basic/virt.c
index aa3f4f2b58..6ccb015e52 100644
--- a/src/basic/virt.c
+++ b/src/basic/virt.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static Virtualization detect_vm_dmi_vendor(void) {
                 { "KVM",                   VIRTUALIZATION_KVM       },
                 { "OpenStack",             VIRTUALIZATION_KVM       }, /* Detect OpenStack instance as KVM in non x86 architecture */
                 { "KubeVirt",              VIRTUALIZATION_KVM       }, /* Detect KubeVirt instance as KVM in non x86 architecture */
+                { "Alibaba Cloud ECS",     VIRTUALIZATION_KVM       }, /* narrower than bare "Alibaba Cloud" sys_vendor */
                 { "Amazon EC2",            VIRTUALIZATION_AMAZON    },
                 { "QEMU",                  VIRTUALIZATION_QEMU      },
                 { "VMware",                VIRTUALIZATION_VMWARE    }, /* https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009458 */