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Simple Application Server:Billable items

Last Updated:Nov 01, 2023

This topic describes billable items of Simple Application Server and provides billing examples of the service.

Billable items

Simple Application Server

Note

The prices in this topic are provided only for reference. The prices that are displayed on the buy page of simple application servers take precedence.

Billable item

Description

Billing method

Formula

Plan specifications

Include computing resources, storage resources, and network resources. For more information about plans, see Pricing of resource plans.

Subscription

Price of plan specifications × Subscription period

Data disk (optional)

If you mount a data disk to your simple application server, you must pay for the data disk based on its capacity. If you do not mount a data disk to your simple application server, this fee does not occur.

Note

Only enhanced SSDs (ESSDs) of performance level 0 (PL0) and standard SSDs can be used as data disks of simple application servers.

The prices of disks of the same category may vary with regions. You can view the prices of disks in different regions on the Elastic Block Storage Price tab of the Elastic Block Storage Pricing page.

The prices of disks of the same category may vary with regions. You can go to the Pricing tab of the Elastic Compute Service product page and click the Storage tab to view the prices of disks in different regions.

Subscription

Unit price of data disks × Capacity of the data disk × Subscription period

Excess data transfers (optional)

A plan contains a monthly data transfer quota. After the data transfer quota is used up, you are charged for the excess data transfers based on the pay-as-you-go billing method.

For information about the unit price of excess data transfers, visit the Simple Application Server Pricing page.

Note
  • Data transfers in Simple Application Server refer to outbound data transfers. You are not charged for inbound data transfers.

  • Alibaba Cloud resets the data transfer quota for a simple application server on the first day of each calendar month. After the quota is reset, the server starts to calculate the data transfers for the month.

  • Some plans do not contain monthly data transfer quotas. Example: a plan that consists of 1 vCPU, 1 GB memory, 1 Mbit/s bandwidth, and a 20 GB standard SSD. Servers that use these plans do not incur excess data transfers. You are not charged for excess data transfers.

Pay-as-you-go

Unit price of data transfers × Excess data transfers

Snapshot

A snapshot is a point-in-time backup of a disk. Snapshots can be used to back up data, recover data after accidental operations on instances, recover data after network attacks, and create custom images.

Note

You are not charged for creating snapshots. The maximum number of snapshots that can be retained in an Alibaba Cloud account is triple of the number of simple application servers that you have. The value cannot be greater than 15.

Free

None

Custom image

A custom image is created based on a snapshot of a simple application server. You can use custom images to create multiple simple application servers that have the same configurations. You can also share custom images with ECS and use the shared images to create ECS instances or replace the OSs of existing ECS instances.

Note

You are not charged for creating custom images. The maximum number of custom images that can be retained in an Alibaba Cloud account is triple of the number of simple application servers that you have. The value cannot be greater than 15.

Free

None

Service interconnection

By default, simple application servers that belong to the same Alibaba Cloud account and region are deployed in the same virtual private cloud (VPC). These servers can communicate with each other over the VPC free of charge.

Important

If you want simple application servers that belong to different Alibaba Cloud accounts or regions to be interconnected, go to the Cloud Enterprise Network console. You are charged for service interconnection across Alibaba Cloud accounts or regions. For more information, see Billing rules.

Free

None

Billing examples

The following table describes how to calculate the price of using a simple application server in different scenarios.

Example

Scenario

Price

Example 1: Plan price + Data disk price

The following resources are used to create a simple application server in the following region:

  • Region: China (Hong Kong)

  • Image: CentOS 7.6

  • Plan specifications: USD 3.5/month (standard SSD)

  • Data disk capacity: 20 GB

  • Unit price of data disks in the China (Hong Kong) region: USD 0.187 per GB-month

  • Subscription period: three months

Total price = Plan price × Subscription period + Data disk price × Subscription period

Data disk price = Unit price of data disks × Data disk capacity (GB)

In this example, the total configuration price of the simple application server is USD 21.72, which is calculated based on the following formula: 3.50 × 3 + 0.187 × 20 × 3 = USD 21.72.

Example 2: Price of excess data transfers

A simple application server that is deployed in the China (Hong Kong) region transfers additional 8 GB of data to the Internet after the data transfer quota in the plan is used up.

  • Excess data transfers: 8 GB

  • Unit price of data transfers: USD 0.153/GB

The price of excess data transfers = Unit price of data transfers × Excess data transfers.

In this example, the price of excess data transfers is USD 1.224, which is calculated based on the following formula: 0.153 × 8 = USD 1.224.