Database Backup:Network traffic fees

Cross-region backup

Backup set download

• Download backup sets over an internal network: You are not charged for downloading regular backup sets or cross-region backup sets over an internal network.

• Download backup sets over the Internet: The free quota for backup set downloads over the Internet is 500 GB per month per instance. If the free quota is used up, you are charged for the excess traffic consumed to download backup sets over the Internet. Fees are ducted on a daily basis. The following table describes the prices. To view the bills, go to the Bills page of the User Center console and click the Details tab.

  Source region	Price (USD per GB)
  Regions in the Chinese mainland	0.125
  China (Hong Kong) and regions outside China	0.15

  Note

  • To view the volume of traffic that you consumed to download backup sets over the Internet, you can log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console, click the ID of your ApsaraDB RDS instance to go to the Basic Information page, and then view the Backup Downloads parameter in the Usage Statistics section of the page.

  • The free quota for backup set downloads over the Internet is calculated by calendar month. The free quota for a month is effective as of the first day of the month. If the free quota is not used up in a month, the remaining quota becomes invalid at the end of the month.

  • If the backup sets fail to be downloaded, no network traffic fees are generated.

References

• Download the backup files of an ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instance

• Download the data backup files and log backup files of an ApsaraDB RDS for SQL Server instance

• Download the backup files of an ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL instance