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Cloud Data Transfer:Maximum bandwidths and SLAs

Last Updated:Jul 23, 2026

Lists the maximum bandwidth and service level agreement (SLA) for each Alibaba Cloud service supported by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT).

CDT (Cloud Data Transfer) is a billing mode, not a bandwidth throttling mechanism. The maximum bandwidth values listed in the table below represent the specification ceiling of each supported Alibaba Cloud service (such as ECS and EIP) under pay-as-you-go billing — they are not limitations imposed by CDT.

If your actual transfer speed is lower than expected or you suspect bandwidth throttling, troubleshoot the following factors before attributing the issue to CDT mode:

  • Instance bandwidth configuration: Verify the bandwidth limit configured for the corresponding cloud service instance. For example, an ECS instance configured with 100 Mbit/s bandwidth cannot exceed this limit regardless of CDT billing mode.

  • Network link quality: Check for packet loss or high latency on the actual network path between the source and destination.

  • Remote server capacity: The download speed may be constrained by the capacity of the target server or content delivery network (CDN).

  • Local network environment: Confirm that your local network connection is not the bottleneck.

Maximum bandwidths and SLAs

The following table lists the maximum bandwidth and SLA of pay-by-data-transfer instances for each CDT-supported service.

Note

If you need a higher bandwidth, contact your account manager.

Supported service

Maximum bandwidth

SLA

Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

100 Mbit/s

  • Service availability of at least 99.995% for a multi-zone instance.

  • Service availability of at least 99.975% for a single-zone instance.

Elastic IP address (EIP)

200 Mbit/s

  • Service availability of at least 99.95% for a multi-zone instance.

  • Service availability of at least 99.00% for a single-zone instance.

Anycast EIP

1,000 Mbit/s

N/A

Internet Shared Bandwidth

2,000 Mbit/s

  • Service availability of at least 99.95% for a multi-zone instance.

  • Service availability of at least 99.00% for a single-zone instance.

IPv6 Gateway

1,000 Mbit/s

  • Service availability of at least 99.95% for a multi-zone instance.

Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

Per account, the total bandwidth of all pay-by-data-transfer Internet-facing CLB instances in a region cannot exceed 5 Gbit/s.

  • Service availability of at least 99.95% for a multi-zone instance.

  • Service availability of at least 99.00% for a single-zone instance.

Global Accelerator (GA)

10 Gbit/s

Service availability of at least 99.95%.

Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN)

  • Region in the Chinese mainland: 1 Gbit/s.

  • Region outside the Chinese mainland/Cross-border: 100 Mbit/s.

Service availability of at least 99.95%.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering connection

  • Same region: unlimited.

  • Cross-region/Cross-border: 1,024 Mbit/s.

Intra-region: none.

Inter-region: service availability of at least 99.95%.

Express Connect Router (ECR)

  • Between Chinese mainland regions: 1,000 Mbit/s.

  • Between Chinese mainland and non-Chinese mainland regions: 100 Mbit/s.

  • Between regions outside China: 100 Mbit/s.

Note

For multiple connections, data transfer fees are multiplied by N (the number of connections, typically four).

Service availability of at least 99.95%.