This topic describes the billable items of Elastic Compute Service (ECS) resources deployed on a dedicated host.

Billable items

For ECS instances that run on a dedicated host, you are not charged for the vCPUs or memory resources of the instances. However, you are charged for the images, disks, public bandwidth, and snapshots of the ECS instances. The following table describes the billing details. ① indicates a combination of billing methods that has a favorable price.

Note We recommend that you create a pay-as-you-go ECS instance on a dedicated host and select a combination of billing methods that has a favorable price to balance flexibility and cost-effectiveness. ① in the following table identifies a combination of billing methods that has a favorable price.
Resource Description Billing method Switch between billing methods References
Image Image fees are determined based on the image type and your usage.
  • Subscription
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Pay-as-you-go and reserved instances (public image)①
    Important Images can be used only with ECS instances. Reserved Windows instances include public images at no additional cost and can be applied to cover public image charges.
Not supported
Disk Disk fees are determined based on the disk capacity and usage duration.
  • Subscription
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Pay-as-you-go and savings plans①
Snapshot Snapshot fees are determined based on the snapshot size and storage duration.
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Pay-as-you-go and storage capacity units (SCUs)①
 Not supported
Public bandwidth If you use a public IP address to access the Internet, you are charged only for the outbound public bandwidth.
  • Pay-by-bandwidth
  • Pay-by-traffic
  • Pay-by-bandwidth and savings plans①
  • Pay-by-traffic and data transfer plans①
 Change the billing method of network usage

Billing of other ECS resources

The following table describes the billing of resources associated with the ECS instances deployed on a running subscription dedicated host.
Important When you create a subscription ECS instance on a dedicated host, the expiration time of the instance cannot be later than that of the dedicated host.
Billing method Instance status Billing of ECS resources
Subscription Running You are charged for ECS resources, such as images, cloud disks, public bandwidth, and snapshots based on the billing method of each resource.
Stopped You are charged for ECS resources, such as images, cloud disks, public bandwidth, and snapshots based on the billing method of each resource.
Pay-as-you-go Running You are charged for ECS resources, such as images, cloud disks, public bandwidth, and snapshots based on the billing method of each resource.
Stopped
  • If the Economical Mode feature is disabled, you are charged for ECS resources, such as images, cloud disks, public bandwidth, and snapshots based on the billing method of each resource.
  • If the Economical Mode feature is enabled, you are charged for the following ECS resources:
    • Image: Images are retained. The billing for paid images continues.
    • Disk: Disks are retained, and the billing continues.
    • Public bandwidth:
      • If ECS instances are assigned public IP addresses, the IP addresses are released, and you are no longer charged for the public bandwidth.
      • If ECS instances are associated with elastic IP addresses (EIPs), the EIPs remain unchanged. You are charged for the EIPs until the instances are stopped.
      Note If ECS instances are stopped, the private IP addresses of the instances remain unchanged.
    • Snapshot: Snapshots are retained, and still incur fees.