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Cloud Data Transfer:Internet data transfers

Last Updated:Sep 29, 2024

This topic describes the line types and pricing of Internet data transfers provided by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) and provides billing examples. This topic also compares the prices for the Internet data transfers of CDT with the prices for the Internet data transfers of other Alibaba Cloud services.

Line types

The line types of Internet data transfers are BGP (Multi-ISP) and BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro in CDT. The following table describes the line types and the services supported by CDT. BGP is short for Border Gateway Protocol.

Type

Advantage

Supported service

BGP (Multi-ISP)

BGP (Multi-ISP) lines are premium BGP lines that cover multiple regions across the world. BGP lines from different Internet service providers (ISPs) can be used. The optimal BGP line is automatically selected to ensure network stability. Supported ISPs are China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, China Mobile Tietong, China Netcom, China Education and Research Network (CERNET), National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), Dr.Peng Group, and Founder Broadband.

  • Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

  • Elastic IP Address (EIP)

  • Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

  • Internet Shared Bandwidth

  • Anycast EIP

  • IPv6 Gateway

  • Global Accelerator (GA)

  • Function Compute

  • Cloud-native API Gateway

BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro

BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro lines optimize data transmission to the Chinese mainland and improve connection quality for international services. Compared with BGP (Multi-ISP) lines, when BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro lines provide services to users in the Chinese mainland (excluding data centers), cross-border connections are established by using Chinese mainland ISP services. This reduces network latency.

  • GA

  • EIP

  • Internet Shared Bandwidth

Pricing of Internet data transfers

You can use CDT to aggregate and bill the Internet data transfers of multiple Alibaba Cloud services in each region that provide access to the Internet based on tiered pricing. CDT provides multiple price tiers for Internet data transfers. The unit prices vary based on price tiers. You can multiply the amount of the used Internet data transfers by the unit price of the Internet data transfers in the corresponding tier, and then sum the fees calculated based on the tiered prices.

Pricing of Internet data transfers over BGP lines

Important

Starting from April 8, 2024, the quota of free Internet data transfers provided by CDT is increased from 20 GB/month to 200 GB/month. Among the 200 GB of Internet data transfers, 20 GB can be used in global regions (including regions in the Chinese mainland) and the other 180 GB can be used only in regions outside the Chinese mainland.

Price tier

Chinese mainland

Asia Pacific

Europe

North America

South America

Middle East

0 to 200 GB

  • Global regions (including regions in the Chinese mainland): a free quota of 20 GB

  • Regions outside the Chinese mainland: a free quota of 180 GB

0 to 10 TB (including 10 TB)

0.118 USD/GB

0.100 USD/GB

0.074 USD/GB

0.074 USD/GB

0.116 USD/GB

0.116 USD/GB

10 to 50 TB (including 50 TB)

0.111 USD/GB

0.070 USD/GB

0.065 USD/GB

0.065 USD/GB

0.110 USD/GB

0.110 USD/GB

50 to 150 TB (including 150 TB)

0.103 USD/GB

0.065 USD/GB

0.060 USD/GB

0.060 USD/GB

0.091 USD/GB

0.091 USD/GB

150 TB and more

0.096 USD/GB

0.055 USD/GB

0.040 USD/GB

0.040 USD/GB

0.065 USD/GB

0.065 USD/GB

Note
  1. The first 200 GB of Internet data transfers per month is free of charge. Among the 200 GB of Internet data transfers, 20 GB can be used in regions in the Chinese mainland. The portion of Internet data transfers greater than 200 GB are accumulated starting from 0.

  2. For more information about supported regions, see Regions in which CDT supports billing for Internet data transfers.

  3. 1 TB is equal to 1,024 GB.

  4. CDT allows you to use data transfer plans to offset Internet data transfers that fall into Tier 1 (0 to 10 TB). Data transfer plans can be used to offset the Internet data transfers generated by ECS, EIP, CLB, and Internet Shared Bandwidth that use the pay-by-data-transfer metering method. Data transfer plans cannot be used to offset the Internet data transfers generated by Function Compute. For more information, see What is a data transfer plan?

  5. The actual prices on your bills shall prevail.

Pricing of Internet data transfers over BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro lines

Price tier

Asia Pacific

0 to 10 TB (including 10 TB)

0.452 USD/GB

10 to 50 TB (including 50 TB)

0.425 USD/GB

50 to 150 TB (including 150 TB)

0.398 USD/GB

150 TB and more

0.366 USD/GB

Note
  1. For more information about supported regions, see Supported billing regions.

  2. 1 TB is equal to 1,024 GB.

  3. Data transfer plans cannot be used to offset the fees that are generated for Internet data transfers over BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro lines.

  4. The actual prices on your bills shall prevail.

Examples of tiered pricing

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Compare the prices of Internet data transfers: CDT vs. an ECS instance, CDT vs. a BGP (Multi-ISP) EIP, CDT vs. a BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro EIP, and CDT vs. a CLB instance

Note

Note: The prices that are marked in bold in the following tables are lower than the prices provided by an ECS instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line, a BGP (Multi-ISP) EIP, a BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro EIP, or a CLB instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line.

Compare the prices of Internet data transfers: CDT vs. an ECS instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line

The following table compares the prices of Internet data transfers between CDT and an ECS instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line. The unit is USD/GB.

Region

ECS instance

CDT 0~10 TB

CDT 10~50 TB

CDT 50~150 TB

CDT 150 TB and more

China (Qingdao)

0.110

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

Chinese mainland excluding China (Qingdao)

0.123

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

China (Hong Kong)

0.153

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Singapore

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

0.077

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Indonesia (Jakarta)

0.090

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Philippines (Manila)

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Thailand (Bangkok)

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Japan (Tokyo)

0.087

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

South Korea (Seoul)

0.123

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Australia (Sydney) Closing Down

0.096

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

UAE (Dubai)

0.153

0.116

0.110

0.091

0.065

Germany (Frankfurt)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

UK (London)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Virginia)

0.076

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Silicon Valley)

0.077

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

Compare the prices of Internet data transfers: CDT vs. a BGP (Multi-ISP) EIP

The following table compares the prices of Internet data transfers between CDT and a BGP (Multi-ISP) EIP. The unit is USD/GB.

Region

EIP

CDT 0~10 TB

CDT 10~50 TB

CDT 50~150 TB

CDT 150 TB and more

China (Qingdao)

0.110

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

Chinese mainland excluding China (Qingdao)

0.123

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

China (Hong Kong)

0.153

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Singapore

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

0.077

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Indonesia (Jakarta)

0.090

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Philippines (Manila)

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Thailand (Bangkok)

0.081

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Japan (Tokyo)

0.087

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

South Korea (Seoul)

0.123

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Australia (Sydney) Closing Down

0.096

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

UAE (Dubai)

0.153

0.116

0.110

0.091

0.065

Germany (Frankfurt)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

UK (London)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Virginia)

0.076

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Silicon Valley)

0.077

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

Compare the prices of Internet data transfers: CDT vs. a BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro EIP

The following table compares the prices of Internet data transfers between CDT and a BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro EIP. The unit is USD/GB.

Region

BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro EIP

CDT 0~10 TB

CDT 10~50 TB

CDT 50~150 TB

CDT 150 TB and more

China (Hong Kong)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Singapore

0.778

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Japan (Tokyo)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Philippines (Manila)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Indonesia (Jakarta)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Thailand (Bangkok)

0.452

0.452

0.425

0.398

0.366

Compare the prices of Internet data transfers: CDT vs. a CLB instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line

The following table compares the prices of Internet data transfers between CDT and a CLB instance that uses the BGP (Multi-ISP) line. The unit is USD/GB.

Region

CLB instance

CDT 0~10 TB

CDT 10~50 TB

CDT 50~150 TB

CDT 150 TB and more

China (Qingdao)

0.113

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

Chinese mainland excluding China (Qingdao)

0.125

0.118

0.111

0.103

0.096

China (Hong Kong)

0.156

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Singapore

0.117

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

0.112

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Indonesia (Jakarta)

0.117

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Philippines (Manila)

0.117

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Thailand (Bangkok)

0.117

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Japan (Tokyo)

0.087

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

South Korea (Seoul)

0.123

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

Australia (Sydney) Closing Down

0.096

0.100

0.070

0.065

0.055

UAE (Dubai)

0.447

0.116

0.110

0.091

0.065

Germany (Frankfurt)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

UK (London)

0.070

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Virginia)

0.078

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040

US (Silicon Valley)

0.078

0.074

0.065

0.060

0.040