If you have purchased a subscription exclusive resource group of the data transfer service and want to temporarily scale out some concurrent resources during business peak hours to meet resource demand, you can pay for the resources by hour. This topic provides an overview of the billing details, usage instructions, and resource pricing for the hourly billing.
Background information
MaxCompute offers hourly billing for the exclusive resource group of the data transfer service, which includes:
Resource overview
The hourly billing method allows for elastic scaling of reserved concurrency based on the subscription specifications. It supports temporarily increasing the concurrency resources for the level-1 quota of the subscription specification during specific time periods each day, thus meeting the resource demands during business peak hours.
Purchasing and utilization
Pay after use, without the need to prepay monthly.
Billing Details
Billing starts when the scaling out is successful and stops when the scaling in is successful. The charges are based on the number of concurrent slots and the scaling duration of usage.
Billing cycle
The system pushes metering results at every hour and at each change in concurrency. The bills are generated 3 hours later.
Available regions
Supported regions include China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and US (Virginia).
Usage guidelines
Upon successful elastic scaling, the reserved concurrency is allocated to the subscription quota as a exclusive resource, with billing beginning immediately and ceasing upon scale-in. We recommend that releasing resources promptly when not in demand to avoid unnecessary charges.
Elastic reserved concurrency requires scaling through the Time-specific Configuration managed by the quota. For more information, see Enable the time-specific configuration feature. The maximum scale-out is limited to the amount of subscription reserved concurrency purchased for the corresponding quota.
NoteFor scale-out requests exceeding 4000 concurrency, please contact technical support for an assessment. For more information, see Obtain online support for Hologres.
Computing resource prices
The following table shows the pricing for elastic reserved concurrency.
Type | Region | Public cloud price | Description |
Hourly data transfer service |
| USD 0.023/Slot/hour | If the usage duration exceeds 16 hours a day, we recommend that you can directly purchase subscription reserved concurrency. |
| USD 0.037/Slot/hour |
References
For more information on the billing of data download in MaxCompute, see Data transfer fee (downloads over the Internet).
For details on how to secure exclusive resources for stable data transmission, see Purchase and use exclusive resource groups for data transmission service. For subscription billing rules, see Fees for exclusive resources in data transmission service (subscription).