This topic describes the pricing, expiration, and overdue payment policies of Database Autonomy Service (DAS) Professional Edition.

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DAS Professional Edition uses a combination of the subscription billing method and the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged for the instance of a specific instance type based on the subscription billing method. You are charged for the storage for SQL explorer based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. The following table describes the pricing details.

Billing item Billing method Unit price Unit price for excess storage
Instance type Subscription USD 6.18/instance/month
  • If your instance is deployed in the China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), or Indonesia (Jakarta) region, DAS offers 5 GB of free storage for SQL Explorer. If the free quota is exceeded, you are charged for the excess storage based on the unit price of USD 0.0012 per GB per hour.
  • If your database instance is deployed in the China (Hong Kong) or Singapore (Singapore) region, DAS provides 3 GB of free storage for SQL Explorer. If the free quota is exceeded, you are charged for the excess storage based on the unit price of USD 0.0019 per GB per hour.
Storage for SQL Explorer Pay-as-you-go USD 0.0019/GB/hour
Note After DAS Professional Edition is enabled, the storage fee of SQL Insight is charged by DAS and is no longer charged by ApsaraDB RDS . For more information, see Use the SQL Explorer feature on an ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instance.

Others

DAS Professional Edition uses a combination of the subscription billing method and the pay-as-you-go billing method. The following table describes the pricing details.

  • Subscription: USD 12.36/instance/month
    • If your instance is deployed in the China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), or Indonesia (Jakarta) region, DAS provides 5 GB of free storage for SQL Explorer. If the free quota is exceeded, you are charged for the excess storage based on the unit price of USD 0.0012 per GB per hour.
    • If your instance is deployed in the Singapore (Singapore) region, DAS offers 3 GB of free storage for SQL Explorer. If the free quota is exceeded, you are charged for the excess storage based on the unit price of USD 0.0019 per GB per hour.
  • Pay-as-you-go:
    • Alibaba Gov Cloud: USD 0.0025/GB/hour
    • Alibaba Finance Cloud: USD 0.0023/GB/hour

Service expiration

Edition Expiration condition Impact of expiration
DAS Basic Edition DAS Basic Edition does not expire. No impacts.
DAS Professional Edition The validity period ends, and the service is not renewed before it expires. The services that are provided by DAS Professional Edition are automatically suspended and the SQL Explorer feature is automatically disabled. All data that is generated in DAS Professional Edition is deleted. This data includes the data that is generated by SQL Explorer and other analytical features of DAS Professional Edition.

Overdue payments

This section describes the scenario in which a payment for DAS Professional Edition is overdue and the impacts of the overdue payment.

  • Scenario: DAS Professional Edition is activated for a database instance. The total size of data that is generated in DAS Professional Edition exceeds the free quota and your account balance is insufficient to pay the fee for the excess data. The data in DAS Professional Edition includes the data that is generated by SQL Explorer and other analytical features of DAS Professional Edition.
  • If a payment is overdue, take note of the following impacts:
    • To ensure service continuity, you must pay the overdue payment within 1 hour after the bill is generated.
    • If you do not pay the bill within 1 hour, your services provided by DAS Professional Edition are automatically suspended.