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Container Service for Kubernetes:Billing of ACK Serverless cluster

Last Updated:Sep 06, 2023

Serverless Kubernetes clusters are classified into ACK Serverless Pro cluster and ACK Serverless Basic cluster she billable items and billing rules vary based on the type of ACK Serverless cluster. This topic describes the billing rules of ACK Serverless Pro cluster and ACK Serverless Basic clusters.

Billing rules of ACK Serverless Pro cluster

Billable items

Billable items

Cluster management fee

The cluster management feature is in public preview and free of charge.

Cloud service fee

The cloud service fee is charged by the cloud services used by your ACK Serverless cluster based on the billing rules of these services. If your ACK Serverless cluster does not use cloud services, you are not charged cloud service fees.

Cloud service

Activation

Description

Subscription

Resource plan

Billing rule

Elastic Container Instance

Required

This service is used to host workloads in ACK Serverless clusters.

For more information, see What is Elastic Container Instance?.

Not supported

Not supported

Billing overview

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Required

This service is used to build networks and create routing rules for clusters .

For more information, see What is a VPC?.

Not supported

Not supported

Billing

Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Recommended

This service allows you to enable load balancing for clusters .

For more information, see What is CLB? and What is ALB?.

  • Classic Load Balancer (CLB):

    not supported

  • Application Load Balancer (ALB): not supported

  • CLB: not supported

  • ALB: supported

Container Registry

Recommended

This service ensures the security of cloud-native applications that are fully managed on the cloud and allows you to manage the lifecycle of these applications.

For more information, see What is Container Registry?.

Supported

Note

Container Registry Enterprise Edition instances support only the subscription billing method. For more information, see Billing of Container Registry Enterprise Edition instances.

Not supported

Billing rules

Log Service

Recommended

This service is used to collect and query the log data of cluster components and applications.

For more information, see What is Log Service?.

Not supported

Supported

Elastic IP Address (EIP)

Optional

This service enables Internet access for cloud resources.

For more information, see Elastic IP Address.

Not supported

Not supported

Billing overview

NAT Gateway

Optional

This service enables clusters to communicate with the Internet and pull images over the Internet.

For more information, see What is NAT Gateway?.

Not supported

Supported

Apsara File Storage NAS (NAS)

Optional

This service allows you to store application data in NAS file systems.

For more information, see What is NAS?.

Not supported

Supported

Object Storage Service (OSS)

Optional

This service allows you to store application data in OSS buckets.

For more information, see What is OSS?.

Not supported

Supported

Billing overview

Key Management Service (KMS)

Optional

This service allows you to manage application Secrets and encrypt Secrets for ACK Serverless Pro clusters.

For more information, see What is Key Management Service?.

Not supported

Not supported

Billing of KMS

Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone

Optional

Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone is a DNS resolution service for private domain names within VPCs.

For more information, see What is PrivateZone?.

Not supported

Not supported

PrivateZone pricing

Billing rules of ACK Serverless Basic clusters

You are charged only for the cloud services that are used by ACK Serverless Basic clusters or more information about the billing rules of Alibaba Cloud services, see Cloud service fee.

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