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Anti-DDoS:Billing of Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) of the Insurance and Unlimited mitigation plans

Last Updated:Mar 26, 2024

The fees of an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside 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 (Outside Chinese Mainland) instances.

Billing overview

  • Insurance mitigation plan

    The Insurance mitigation plan provides two advanced mitigation sessions per month and is suitable for scenarios in which your servers and users reside outside the Chinese mainland. The users are less likely to be targeted.

    If the advanced mitigation sessions that are provided per month are exhausted, you can purchase global advanced mitigation sessions. For more information, see Billing of advanced mitigation sessions.

  • Unlimited mitigation plan

    The Unlimited mitigation plan provides unlimited advanced mitigation sessions to continuously protect your services against DDoS attacks and is suitable for scenarios in which your servers and users reside outside the Chinese mainland.

Billable items

Note

The prices of billable items that are provided in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices on the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside 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

Insurance

USD 2,630 per month

  • Clean bandwidth: 100 Mbit/s.

  • 95th percentile burstable clean bandwidth: disabled.

  • Function plan: Standard function plan.

  • Number of domain names that can be protected by the instance: 10. The domain names that you add to an instance can belong to only one second-level domain name.

  • Clean queries per second (QPS): 500.

  • 95th percentile burstable QPS: disabled.

  • Number of ports that can be protected by the instance: 5.

Unlimited

USD 11,560 per month

  • Clean bandwidth: 100 Mbit/s.

  • 95th percentile burstable clean bandwidth: disabled.

  • Function plan: Standard function plan.

  • Number of domain names that can be protected by the instance: 10. The domain names that you add to an instance can belong to only one second-level domain name.

  • Clean QPS: 1,000.

  • 95th percentile burstable QPS: disabled.

  • Number of ports that can be protected by the instance: 5.

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

    Clean bandwidth

    Tiered pricing

    The maximum service traffic that can be processed by the instance when no attacks occur.

    Function plan

    Enhanced function plan: USD 1,200 per month

    Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside 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 per second that can be concurrently processed by the instance when 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

    Every five additional ports: USD 150/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

    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 emails 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before your instance expires to remind you to renew your subscription.

From the expiration date to thirty 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.

Thirty calendar days (included) after the expiration date

The instance no longer forwards service traffic and is released.

Warning
  • If you no longer require Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) to protect your service, you must switch service traffic from the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance to the origin server before 30 calendar days after the expiration date. Otherwise, access to your service 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.

  • After all Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instances that are created by using your Alibaba Cloud account are released, the configurations that are added to Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) are permanently deleted. If you want to use Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) again, you must purchase and configure another Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside 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.