The fees of an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance consist of the subscription fee of the instance and the pay-as-you-go fee of the features that you enable for the instance. This topic describes the billable items, expiration, and overdue payments of Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instances.
Billing overview
Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) provides two types of instances: Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instances of the Profession mitigation plan and Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instances of the Advanced mitigation plan. You can purchase an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance of the Profession mitigation plan on the buy page. To purchase an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance of the Advanced mitigation plan, contact your account manager.
Profession mitigation plan: The mitigation capabilities are based on the basic protection bandwidth and burstable protection bandwidth that you specify when you purchase an instance.
Advanced mitigation plan: The basic protection bandwidth is 5 Gbit/s, and 2 advanced mitigation sessions are provided each calendar month.
NoteAdvanced mitigation leverages the anti-DDoS scrubbing centers of Alibaba Cloud in the current region to protect your services against DDoS attacks.
If the advanced mitigation sessions that are provided per calendar month are exhausted, you can purchase global advanced mitigation sessions. For more information, see Billing of advanced mitigation sessions.
Billable items
The actual prices on the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) buy page shall prevail.
The following table describes the unit prices of the two types of instances that use the minimum specifications and the details of the specifications.
Type | Unit price | Specification |
Profession | USD 3,120 per month |
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Advanced | USD 2,880 per month |
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If the minimum specifications do not meet your business requirements, you can upgrade the specifications and enable pay-as-you-go features.
Specifications
Item
Price
Description
Basic protection bandwidth
Price for every 10 Gbit/s of increment: USD 1,300 per month
The basic DDoS mitigation capability of an instance. You can adjust the basic protection bandwidth only for an instance of the Profession mitigation plan.
Clean bandwidth
Tiered pricing
The maximum bandwidth that the instance uses to manage service traffic if no attacks occur.
Function plan
Enhanced function plan: USD 1,200 per month
Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) supports Standard and Enhanced function plans. The Enhanced function plan supports advanced service access capabilities and DDoS mitigation capabilities.
For more information, see Differences between the Standard and Enhanced function plans.
Number of domain names that can be protected
Standard function plan: USD 45 per month for every 10 additional domain names. Enhanced function plan: USD 75 per month for every 10 additional domain names.
The number of HTTP and HTTPS domain names that the instance can protect. For every 10 additional domain names, the total number of second-level domain names that are supported is increased by one.
Clean QPS
Every 100 QPS: USD 150 per month
The maximum number of HTTP and HTTPS requests that the instance can concurrently process per second if no attacks occur
We recommend that you specify the clean QPS based on your business requirements. If the actual QPS of your service exceeds the clean QPS that you specify, packet loss may occur and some logs may fail to be recorded.
Number of ports
Price for every five additional ports: USD 37.5 per month
The number of TCP and UDP ports that can be protected by the instance.
Pay-as-you-go features
After you enable a pay-as-you-go feature, bills are generated only after the usage of the feature meets the bill generation conditions.
Feature
Billing rule
Description
Burstable protection bandwidth
The burstable protection feature is billed on a daily basis.
The feature is supported only for an instance of the Profession mitigation plan. The burstable protection bandwidth determines the maximum capability of the instance to defend against DDoS attacks. If the bandwidth of DDoS attacks is greater than the basic protection bandwidth, burstable protection is triggered to mitigate the DDoS attacks. You are charged for the usage of burstable protection. For more information, see Billing of the burstable protection bandwidth feature.
95th percentile burstable clean bandwidth
Both the daily 95th percentile metering method and the monthly 95th percentile metering method are supported.
The burstable clean bandwidth feature provides additional clean bandwidth for your instance. If spikes occur in your service traffic and the traffic exceeds the clean bandwidth of the instance during peak hours, the burstable clean bandwidth feature can be used to prevent access to your service from being limited. For more information, see Billing of the burstable clean bandwidth feature.
95th percentile burstable QPS
Both the daily 95th percentile metering method and the monthly 95th percentile metering method are supported.
The burstable QPS feature provides additional QPS for your instance. If spikes occur in your service QPS and the QPS exceeds the clean QPS of the instance during peak hours, the burstable QPS feature can be used to prevent access to your service from being limited. For more information, see Billing of the burstable QPS feature.
Instance expiration
Instance status | Description |
Before the instance expires | Alibaba Cloud sends you text messages and emails 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before your instance expires to remind you to renew your subscription. |
From the expiration date to 7 calendar days (excluded) after the expiration date | The instance forwards service traffic, and the configurations of the instance are retained. If you renew your instance within this time period, the instance continues to provide protection capabilities based on the specifications that you purchase. |
From 7 calendar days (included) after the expiration date to 15 calendar days (excluded) after the expiration date | The instance no longer forwards service traffic, but the configurations of the instance are retained. If you renew your instance within this time period, the instance continues to provide protection capabilities based on the specifications that you purchase. Warning If you no longer require Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) to protect your service, you must switch service traffic from the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance to the origin server before 7 calendar days after the expiration date. Otherwise, access to your services may be adversely affected. If you want to switch service traffic, make sure that the domain name of your website does not point to the CNAME assigned by Anti-DDoS Proxy. You must also make sure that your non-website service does not use an exclusive IP address provided by the instance. |
15 calendar days (included) after the expiration date | The instance no longer forwards service traffic and is released. Warning After all Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instances that are created by using your Alibaba Cloud account are released, the configurations that are added to Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) are permanently deleted. If you want to use Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) again, you must purchase and configure another Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland) instance. |
Overdue payments
If the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account, including cash, vouchers, and coupons, is insufficient to settle an outstanding payment, your account has an overdue payment.
If your Alibaba Cloud account has an overdue payment, you must top up your account at the earliest opportunity to ensure that the balance of your account is sufficient. Otherwise, your pay-as-you-go service may become unavailable.
Renewal
You can manually renew an instance. You can also enable auto-renewal for the instance. For more information, see Renew an instance.
Refunds
After you purchase an instance, you cannot request a refund for the instance.
Bill query
You can query bills in User Center. For more information, see Monthly bills.