Elastic Compute Billing

This chapter describes the billable resources of elastic compute resources and billing methods of these resources.

Prerequisites

• Please first see General Pricing Rules and General Lifecycle Rules to know about basic pricing ways of subscription and pay-as-you-go resources.

Note

• Currently only pricing model of pay-as-you-go is supported for elastic compute resources.

• A one-hour amount will be "frozen" temporarily as a Temporary Hold in the pay-as-you-go pricing.

• You can manually delete your pay-as-you-go elastic compute resources at any time. The deleted resources will be released immediately and your Temporary Hold will be unfrozen and returned. See Resource recycle in the Pay-as-you-go Stages.

• Elastic compute resources include the compute resources (vCPUs and RAM), disks, images, IPs, bandwidth, data transfer, networks, subnets and security groups.

Note

The actual price varies in different locations and availability zones, therefore the price shown on the order page shall prevail.

Billing Items

Elastic Compute Instance

The billing method of bare metal instances is Pay-as-you-go. You pay for your resources afterward by hour.

Note

You can purchase up to 40 pay-as-you-go elastic compute instances.

vCPU and Memory

You can select the available specifications of vCPU and memory.

The price varies with different specifications and locations and you will see the price when placing the order on zenConsole.

Storage

Boot Disk

Boot disk is used to store your operating system. The disk size cannot be smaller than that of your operating system. The price varies according to the storage volume and the location of the instance. You pay for boot disk by per GB along with the vCPU and memory.

Disk

Disk is optional for you to provide extra storage to your business data. The price varies according to the storage volume and the location of the instance. You can pay for the disk by per GB along with the vCPU and memory, or attach and pay for the disk afterward by hour.

Elastic IPv4

You postpay the elastic IPv4 by hour.

The price varies with different specifications and locations and you will see the price when placing the order on zenConsole.

Note

When purchasing an instance, you can optionally select to create a free default public IPv4 address.

CIDR Block IPv4

You postpay the CIDR Block IPv4 by the hour. All public CIDR IPv4 addresses within the range are usable.

Cross-region Bandwidth

You need to purchase Cross-region Bandwidth for internal connection. You postpay the Cross-region Bandwidth based-on flat rate by the hour.

Note

By default, in a global VPC, 10 Kbps free bandwidth is available for testing between regions.

Network

Bandwidth Cluster

You can uniformly manage all your compute resources and optimize public network bandwidth costs by sharing a bandwidth commitment with the aggregated pricing model.

Flat Rate

For the flat rate pricing model, you can set a bandwidth cap for your stable business with little bursty traffic, and use unlimited data transfer. You will be charged based on the per Mbps bandwidth size by the hour.

Data Transfer

You can purchase a monthly data transfer package.

The package is evenly distributed across each hour of the month, which is your hourly package commit rate. You use that part first and pay afterward by hour. If your hourly usage does not exceed the hourly commit rate, you are charged for the hourly commit rate only. If your usage exceeds the hourly commit rate, apart from the hourly commit rate fee, the overage usage will be paid per GB. Less than 1 GB is counted as 1 GB.

If you wish to pay for your actual hourly usage only, you can purchase a 0 TB monthly data transfer package.