This topic describes the changes brought by the upgrade from Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone to Private DNS.
Billing changes for service sales
1. Service upgrade
Private DNS comes with a series of feature improvement over its predecessor Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone, and the graphical user interface (GUI) of the console has also been revised. If you have not used the new features in the new console, such as creating an acceleration zone, adding a cache retention domain name, enabling traffic analysis, and adding a user-defined request line, you can switch between the new console and the old console. If you have used any of the new features, you cannot switch back to the old console.
2. Comparison of feature differences before and after the upgrade
Feature module | Subfeature | Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | Private DNS |
Built-in Authoritative Module | User Defined Zones | Supported. Known as authoritative zones. | Supported. Authoritative acceleration zones are added, which deliver the lowest resolution latency and support DNS resolution based on user-defined request lines and based on weights. |
Cloud Service Defined Zones | Supported. Known as authoritative zones for cloud services. | Supported. | |
Cache Module | Cache Retention Domain Name | Not supported. | Supported. Hotspot domain names can be persistently cached. This greatly shortens the resolution delay and provides disaster recovery protection when public DNS resolution fails. |
Clear Cache | Not supported. | Supported. Cached DNS records can be cleared to obtain the latest DNS records. | |
Forward Module | Forward DNS requests | Supported. Known as the resolver feature in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone. | Supported. The forward module feature. |
Traffic analysis | Traffic analysis | Not supported. | Supported. Private DNS supports end-to-end visual traffic analysis. |
Logging | Supported. Logging is supported in some regions. | Supported. Logging is supported in all regions. You can transfer Private DNS logs to Simple Log Service (SLS). |
3. Changes in billable items
Feature module | Billable item | Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | Private DNS |
Built-in Authoritative Module | Number of user defined zones | USD 0.015 per zone-day (the maximum number of DNS records is 100,000) | The total number of built-in authoritative zones within an account is counted. The number of zones that need to be billed is converted based on the number of DNS records. Each built-in authoritative zone is charged at USD 0.015 per day. See the following billing rules: (1) Built-in authoritative regular zone: If the number of DNS records is less than or equal to 100,000, you are charged the fee of one zone. If the number of DNS records is greater than 100,000, the system determines the actual number of zones that need to be billed by rounding up the result of the actual number of DNS records divided by 100,000. The default quota of DNS records for the built-in authoritative regular zone is 100,000. If you want to increase the quota, submit a ticket. (2) Built-in authoritative acceleration zone: If the number of DNS records is less than or equal to 1,000, you are charged the fee of one zone. If the number of DNS records is greater than 1,000, the system determines the actual number of zones that need to be billed by rounding up the result of the actual number of DNS records divided by 1,000. The default quota of DNS records for the built-in authoritative acceleration zone is 100,000. If you want to increase the quota, submit a ticket. |
Number of DNS requests for user-defined zones | USD 0.004 per 10,000 requests | The total number of DNS requests for all built-in authoritative zones within an account is counted. You are charged USD 0.004 per 10,000 requests. (1) Built-in authoritative regular zone: The number of DNS requests that need to be billed is equal to the number of back-to-origin requests that the DNS servers process after the specified time-to-live (TTL) period ends. (2) Built-in authoritative acceleration zone: The number of DNS requests that need to be billed is equal to the number of requests originated from clients. The requests originated from clients in Alibaba Cloud are not affected by the TTL value. | |
Cache Module | Number of cache retention domain names | Not supported. | USD 0.015 per domain name-day |
Number of cache clearing times | Not supported. | USD 15 per time | |
Forward Module | Number of source IP addresses for outbound endpoints | USD 0.15 per IP address-hour | USD 0.15 per IP address-hour |
Number of DNS requests that are forwarded by outbound endpoints | USD 0.004 per 10,000 requests | USD 0.004 per 10,000 requests | |
Traffic analysis | Number of DNS logs | Not supported. | A DNS log is generated each time a DNS request is received. The total number of DNS logs within an account is counted. You are charged USD 0.015 per 10,000 logs. (1) Total number of DNS logs = Number of DNS requests for the global traffic module + Number of DNS requests for the built-in authoritative traffic module + Number of DNS requests for the cache traffic module + Number of DNS requests for the forward traffic module + Number of DNS requests for the recursion traffic module. (2) After the traffic analysis feature is enabled, the log collection feature is enabled by default, and no separate fee is charged for DNS log collection. |