This topic describes the billing examples of Cloud Backup.
Pay-as-you-go billing method
Example 1
You have an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance. The total size of ECS files is 10 GB. The total size of database files is 163 GB. No incremental data is generated in the ECS instance. You use Cloud Backup to back up the ECS instance. A backup job is run once a month. The backup data is retained for 30 days each time.
In this example, the monthly fee is USD 14.036744 (30 days per month). The following table describes the billing details.
Billable item | Description | Billing unit | Unit price per month | Fee per month |
Cloud Backup clients | You are charged based on the number of nodes on which backup clients are installed. | Per ECS instance or per on-premises server | USD 5.383511 | USD 5.383511 |
Storage usage of backup vaults | Cloud Backup deduplicates and compresses data for backup. You are charged for the backup storage based on the storage space occupied by the data that is deduplicated and compressed. For example, the original data size is 10 GB. After the data is deduplicated and compressed, the data size is approximately 8 GB. You can use Backup Storage Calculator to estimate the required backup storage. | Per GB | USD 0.031870 | USD 0.031870 × 8 GB = USD 0.25496 |
Rental of database backup vaults | You are charged a fixed amount of rental fee for each database backup vault. A backup vault can store the backups of multiple databases that are located in the same region. | Per backup vault | USD 6.460213 | USD 6.460213 |
Storage space that is occupied by database backups | Tiered pricing is used. For example, the original data size is 163 GB. After the data is deduplicated and compressed, the data size is approximately 130 GB. A free quota of 100 GB is provided per month. You are charged for 30 GB. You can use Backup Storage Calculator to estimate the required backup storage. | Per GB | USD 0.064602 (First 500 GB) | USD 0.064602 × 30 GB = USD 1.93806 |
For more information about the billable items of each backup source, see Billing methods and billable items.
For more information about the unit price of each billable item, see Cloud Backup Pricing.
For more information about how to query the details of bills, see Query bills and resource usage.