This topic describes the pricing, expiration, and overdue payment policies of Database Autonomy Service (DAS) Professional Edition.
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DAS Professional Edition uses a combination of the subscription billing method and the pay-as-you-go billing method. You are charged subscription fees based on the number of database instances for which DAS Professional Edition can be enabled, and you are charged for the storage for SQL Explorer on a pay-as-you-go basis. The following table describes the pricing details.
Billable item | Billing method | Unit price | Unit price for excess storage |
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Number of database instances for which DAS Professional Edition can be enabled | Subscription | USD 6.2 per instance-month | None |
Storage for SQL Explorer | Pay-as-you-go | USD 0.0019 per GB-hour |
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Example:
Assume that you have a database instance deployed in the China (Hangzhou) region. The average daily QPS is 100, and each SQL statement is 100 bytes in length. In this case, you are charged USD 22 for DAS Professional Edition each month.
Service expiration
Edition | Expiration condition | Impact of expiration |
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DAS Basic Edition | DAS Basic Edition does not expire. | None |
DAS Professional Edition | The validity period ends, and DAS Professional Edition is not renewed before it expires. | The services that are provided by DAS Professional Edition are automatically suspended, and the SQL Explorer feature is automatically disabled. All data that is generated in DAS Professional Edition is deleted, including the data that is generated by SQL Explorer and other analytical features of DAS Professional Edition. |
Overdue payments
This section describes a scenario in which a payment for DAS Professional Edition is overdue and the impacts of the overdue payment.
- Scenario: DAS Professional Edition is enabled for a database instance. The total size of data that is generated in DAS Professional Edition exceeds the free quota and your account has an insufficient balance to pay the fees for the excess data. The data in DAS Professional Edition includes the data that is generated by SQL Explorer and other analytical features of DAS Professional Edition.
- If a payment is overdue, take note of the following items:
- To ensure service continuity, you must clear the overdue payment within 1 hour after the bill is generated.
- You can enable the service suspension protection feature:
- If the service suspension protection feature is enabled, DAS Professional Edition does not expire after the bill is generated for 1 hour, but expires after the suspension protection period ends.
- If the service suspension protection feature is not enabled, take note of the following
items:
- To ensure service continuity, you must clear the overdue payment within 1 hour after the bill is generated.
- If you do not pay the bill within 1 hour, the services provided by DAS Professional Edition are automatically suspended.