Snapshot Billing
Prerequisites
Snapshot resources are all pay-as-you-go resources charged by hour, with a minimum of one hour price. Please first see General Pricing Rules and General Lifecycle Rules to know about basic pricing ways of pay-as-you-go resources.
Snapshot currently includes the following pricing items: storage space.
Billing Item
The basic billing item for snapshot service is snapshot capacity, which refers to the actual storage space occupied by snapshots.
Billing Method
The snapshot service uses pay-as-you-go by default, and charges are calculated hourly based on actual usage.
Charges are based on the actual storage usage of snapshots.
Region-level Billing
Snapshots are billed by capacity and per region. Each region has only one snapshot billing order, and all snapshots in that region are accumulated into it.
Snapshot billing is aggregated at the region level.
When you create a snapshot in a region for the first time, the system generates a snapshot billing order for that region.
Any subsequent snapshots created in the same region will not generate a new order. Their storage usage will be accumulated into the existing regional snapshot order.
Different regions are billed independently, with separate snapshot orders.
Billing Example
Suppose you create snapshots four times in asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong) and europe-central-1 (Frankfurt) respectively:
asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong)unit price:$0.1/GB/month (billed hourly)europe-central-1 (Frankfurt)unit price:$0.2/GB/month (billed hourly)
Your snapshot billing orders will be as follows:
1
asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong)
50 GB
Create a snapshot of Disk A
A “asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong) Order” is generated
Billed for 50 GB snapshot capacity, used for 1 month:
$0.1 × 50 × 1 = $5
2
asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong)
100 GB
After 1 month, create a snapshot of Disk B
No new order
Added to “asia-southeast-1 (Hong Kong) Order”, total 150 GB. After another month of usage:
$0.1 × 50 × 2 + $0.1 × 100 × 1 = $20
3
europe-central-1 (Frankfurt)
200 GB
After 1 month, create a snapshot of Disk C
A “europe-central-1 (Frankfurt) Order” is generated
Billed for 200 GB snapshot capacity. After another month of usage:
Hong Kong: $0.1 × 50 × 3 + $0.1 × 100 × 2 = $35
Frankfurt: $0.2 × 200 × 1 = $40
Total: $35 + $40 = $75
4
europe-central-1 (Frankfurt)
50 GB
After 1 month, create a snapshot of Disk D
No new order
Added to “europe-central-1 (Frankfurt) Order”, total 250 GB. After another month of usage:
Hong Kong: $0.1 × 50 × 4 + $0.1 × 100 × 3 = $50
Frankfurt: $0.2 × 200 × 2 + $0.2 × 50 × 1 = $90
Total: $50 + $90 = $140
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