You are charged for the Alibaba Cloud services that are used by your Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters.
Alibaba Cloud services related to ACK
The following table describes the billing rules of the related Alibaba Cloud services.
Cloud service | Activation | Description | Subscription | Resource plan | Billing rule |
Elastic Compute Service (ECS) |
| This service can be used to create nodes in ACK clusters. For more information, see What is ECS?. | Supported | Not supported | |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Required | This service can be used to build networks and create routing rules for ACK clusters. For more information, see What is a VPC?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Classic Load Balancer (CLB) | Required | This service provides load balancing for ACK clusters. For more information, see What is CLB?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Auto Scaling | Required | This service enables ACK clusters to support auto scaling and automatically creates nodes in scale-out activities. For more information, see What is Auto Scaling?. | Not supported | Not 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 | |
Elastic IP Address (EIP) | Recommended | This service enables Internet access for cloud resources. For more information, see What is EIP?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Elastic Container Instance |
| This service can be used to host workloads in ACK and ACK Serverless clusters. For more information, see What is Elastic Container Instance?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) | Recommended | This service allows you to manage the network traffic of applications in multiple ACK clusters by using service meshes. For more information, see What is ASM?. | Not supported | Supported | |
Log Service | Recommended | This service allows you to collect and query the log data of cluster components and applications. For more information, see What is Log Service?. | Not supported | Supported Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see Purchase a resource plan. | |
CloudMonitor | Recommended | This service allows you to monitor the status of nodes and applications in ACK clusters. For more information, see What is CloudMonitor?. | Not supported | Supported Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see Overview. | |
Prometheus Service | Recommended | This service allows you to monitor ACK clusters and generate alerts when exceptions are detected. For more information, see What is Prometheus Service?. | Supported Note For more information, see Billing overview. | Not supported | |
NAT Gateway | Optional | This service enables ACK clusters to communicate with the Internet and pull images over the Internet. For more information, see What is NAT Gateway?. | Not supported | Supported Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see NAT resource plans. | |
Security Center (SAS) | Optional | This service allows you to monitor the security events of application runtimes in ACK clusters and generate alerts when exceptions are detected. For more information, see What is Security Center?. | Not supported | Not 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 Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see Purchase resource plans. | Billing of General-purpose NAS file systems and Billing of Extreme NAS file systems |
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 Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see Purchase resource plans. | |
Key Management Service (KMS) | Optional | This service allows you to manage application Secrets and encrypt Secrets for ACK Pro clusters. For more information, see What is Key Management Service?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | Optional | Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone is intended for resolving private domain names in VPCs. You can access applications that are deployed in ACK Serverless clusters by using this service to resolve the domain names of the applications. For more information, see What is PrivateZone? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Hybrid Backup Recovery (HBR) | Optional | This service provides data backup, disaster recovery, and policy-based archive management. For more information, see What is HBR?. | Supported | Supported Note Select resource plans based on your business requirements. For more information, see Purchase resource plans. |