Starting from September 20, 2020, Alibaba Cloud charges you for snapshot backups. The charges are based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. In addition, promotional discounts are issued based on a predefined schedule. This applies to ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL instances with cloud disks.
Effective date
September 20, 2020
Billing
You are charged at an hourly rate for snapshot backups based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see Backup storage fees.
Promotional discounts
If your RDS instance uses standard or enhanced SSDs, you are offered a free quota for backup storage. The free quota is equal to 200% of the purchased storage capacity.
The prices of these snapshot backups are reduced by about 75% compared with the prices of the backups that are stored on local SSDs.