Microservices Engine:Billing overview of common instances

Standard Edition

You are charged for the managed common gateway instances. For each common gateway instance that uses Standard Edition, an SLB instance serves as a traffic ingress. You can associate multiple Internet-facing or internal-facing SLB instances with a gateway instance to adapt to different network environments. When you create a gateway, MSE automatically purchases an SLB instance based on the specifications you select. The SLB instance is billed separately, and the fees are deducted directly from your Alibaba Cloud account. MSE does not charge fees for SLB instances.

Professional Edition

You are charged for the managed common gateway instances. When you create a gateway, the gateway fees include the fees of the purchased SLB instance. No additional SLB charges are incurred. You are separately billed for Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCUs) and Internet data transfers.

Professional Edition is deeply integrated with SLB and implements GZIP decompression based on hardware acceleration. If CPU utilization is extremely low, this feature can reduce network bandwidth fees by about 40%. Hardware-accelerated GZIP decompression applies to nodes with the following specifications: 8 cores and 16 GiB of memory, or 16 cores and 32 GiB of memory.

Pay-as-you-go

• The billing duration is measured in hours. If a gateway runs for less than one hour, the usage duration is counted as one hour.

• Fees are calculated every hour, and a bill is generated at an interval of 24 hours.

• Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account.

Subscription

• The billing duration is measured in months. If you select a duration of 1 year, the total fees equal the monthly fees multiplied by 12.

• Fees are automatically deducted from the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account.

Pay-as-you-go

Formula:

Total fees = Unit price of instance specifications x Number of hours x Number of nodes

Example: You select a region in the Chinese mainland, choose the specifications of 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory, configure 3 nodes for a gateway, and run it for 5 hours.

Total fees = 0.136 x 5 x 3 = USD 2.04

Subscription

Formula:

Total fees = Unit price of instance specifications x Number of months x Number of nodes

Example: You select a region in the Chinese mainland, choose the specifications of 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory, configure 3 nodes for a gateway, and select a duration of 1 year.

Total fees = 69 x 12 x 3 = USD 2,484

Subscription with auto scaling

When a subscription gateway uses auto scaling, elastic nodes that are added during a scale-out are billed separately at the pay-as-you-go rate for elastic nodes. The elastic node unit price is higher than the regular node unit price.

Example: You purchase a subscription cloud-native gateway deployed in a region in the Chinese mainland. The specifications are 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory, and 3 nodes are configured. The system automatically triggers scale-out and adds 1 elastic node to run during the period from 20:00 to 22:00 every day. In a 30-day month, the total monthly fees are calculated as follows:

Total monthly fees = (69 x 3 x 1) + (0.341 x 1 x 2 x 30) = USD 227.46

Where:

• 69 x 3 x 1 = Subscription cost for 3 nodes for 1 month

• 0.341 x 1 x 2 x 30 = Elastic node cost for 1 node running 2 hours per day for 30 days

Regions in the Chinese mainland

Excludes the China (Hong Kong), China (Macau), and China (Taiwan) regions.

China (Hong Kong) and Japan (Tokyo)

Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and Germany (Frankfurt)

US (Virginia) and US (Silicon Valley)

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

SLB fees (Standard Edition)

For each common gateway instance that uses Standard Edition, the purchased SLB instance is billed separately. For billing details, see NLB billing or CLB billing. To replace an SLB instance, perform the operation in the MSE console.

Internet data transfer fees (Professional Edition)

If you use Professional Edition common instances of cloud-native gateways, you are charged for Internet data transfers based on Cloud Data Transfer (CDT). For more information, see Internet data transfers.

LCU fees (Professional Edition)

For more information, see NLB billing rules.