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Container Service for Kubernetes:Billing of cloud services

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2023

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 is required for ACK clusters.

  • This service is optional for ACK Serverless clusters.

This service can be used to create nodes in ACK clusters.

For more information, see What is ECS?.

Supported

Not supported

Billing overview

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

Billing

Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

Required

This service provides load balancing for ACK clusters.

For more information, see What is CLB?.

Not supported

Not supported

CLB pay-as-you-go billing

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

Billing rules

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

Elastic IP Address (EIP)

Recommended

This service enables Internet access for cloud resources.

For more information, see What is EIP?.

Not supported

Not supported

Billing overview

Elastic Container Instance

  • This service is recommended for ACK clusters.

  • This service is required for ACK Serverless clusters.

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

Billing overview

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

Billing rules

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.

Billing overview

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.

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

Pay-as-you-go

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.

Billing of Internet NAT gateways

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

Billing overview

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.

Billing overview

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

Billing of KMS

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

Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone pricing

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.

Billing methods and billable items