DataWorks:Billing of exclusive resource groups for Data Integration

DataWorks no longer recommends exclusive resource groups for Data Integration

DataWorks no longer recommends exclusive resource groups for Data Integration. We recommend that you use serverless resource groups. A serverless resource group covers the core capabilities of legacy resource groups (exclusive resource groups for scheduling, exclusive resource groups for Data Integration, exclusive resource groups for Data Service, and shared resource groups). A single serverless resource group can handle data synchronization, task scheduling and execution, and API operation calls and management.

Capabilities

Exclusive resource groups for Data Integration support:

• Data synchronization in complex network environments, including cross-cloud platforms (such as Alibaba Finance Cloud and Alibaba Gov Cloud), across different Alibaba Cloud accounts, and with on-premises data centers.

• Rich product capabilities: Data Integration provides high-speed and stable data movement and synchronization across heterogeneous data sources, supporting batch and real-time synchronization, single-table and full-database synchronization, and full and incremental synchronization. For more information, see Supported data sources and synchronization solutions.

Limitations

• Exclusive resource groups for Data Integration are billed by subscription. You cannot delete or release a resource group before its subscription expires. After a subscription expires, the service is suspended and the resource group is released after a specific period.

• Exclusive resource groups for Data Integration do not support cross-region use. For example, a resource group in the China (Shanghai) region can only be used by workspaces in China (Shanghai).

• Exclusive resource groups for Data Integration do not support Alibaba Cloud classic networks. If your data source is in a classic network, migrate it to a virtual private cloud (VPC) or enable public network access.

Performance metrics

Specifications and pricing

Exclusive resource groups for Data Integration are billed by subscription. Choose the specification that fits your workload.

Billing

Network connectivity

Like other exclusive resource groups, an exclusive resource group for Data Integration is essentially a set of Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. When Data Integration tasks run, you must ensure that the network between the resource group and data sources is connected and not blocked by allowlist or other security access configurations.

After you purchase an exclusive resource group for Data Integration, you must associate it with a VPC. Then, choose a network connectivity solution based on the network environment of your data sources. For more information, see Network connectivity solutions.

• Network connectivity solutions

  Data source network environment	Network connectivity solution
  The data source is on the public network	The data source can be directly connected to the VPC associated with the exclusive resource group.
  The data source is in a VPC and in the same region as the exclusive resource group	We recommend that you associate the exclusive resource group with the same VPC as the data source. After the association, the system automatically adds a route to the entire VPC. You can associate any vSwitch in the VPC to enable network connectivity between the exclusive resource group and the data source.
  The data source is in a VPC and in a different region from the exclusive resource group	Use Express Connect or VPN Gateway to connect the data source network to the VPC associated with the exclusive resource group, and add a route to the IP address of the destination database to ensure network reachability between the two networks.
  The data source is in an on-premises data center	Use Express Connect or VPN Gateway to connect the data source network to the VPC associated with the exclusive resource group, and add a route to the IP address of the destination database to ensure network reachability between the two networks.
  The data source is in a classic network	Exclusive resource groups reside in Alibaba Cloud VPCs. If the data source is in a classic network, the network between the data source and the exclusive resource group cannot be connected. We recommend that you migrate the data source to a VPC.

• Allowlist configuration

  If the data source has an allowlist that restricts access, you must add the IP addresses of the exclusive resource group to the allowlist of the data source to prevent access restrictions. For more information, see Add the resource group to the data source allowlist.

FAQ

For frequently asked questions about DataWorks exclusive resource groups, see Exclusive resource groups.