This topic describes how to view the billing and usage details of Apsara File Storage NAS in the Alibaba Cloud Management Console.
View the billing details of a file system
- Log on to the Billing Management console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- On the Details tab, configure the Billing Cycle parameter and filter the Product Name column for Apsara File Storage NAS. You can also configure the Statistic Item and Statistic Period parameters to specify the content of the bills that you want to display.Note
- You can click Export Billing Overview (CSV) to export the billing details to your local computer. This way, you can view and analyze the billing details on your local computer.
- The total storage usage of General-purpose NAS file systems includes the storage usage of Capacity NAS file systems, the storage usage of Performance NAS file systems, and the storage usage of the recycle bin. For more information, see Query the resource usage of a file system.
For example, if you want to view the bills of a General-purpose NAS file system that you created in January 2023, you can filter the bills based on the conditions, as shown in the following figure. The following table describes the billing details.
Item Description Billing cycle The billing cycle. You are billed on a monthly basis for the NAS resources that you use. Multiple records for a single file system are generated per month because the billing system automatically splits the monthly bill of the file system into these records. If you want to obtain the total duration of the service, you can add the service duration of each record.
Billing method The following billing methods are supported: - NAS resource plan
- NAS storage plan
- NAS file system (pay-as-you-go)
- Extreme NAS file system
- Extreme NAS file system (pay-as-you-go)
Billable item The following billable items are supported: - General-purpose NAS base capacity: General-purpose NAS resource plan
- Extreme NAS base capacity: Extreme NAS resource plan
- Cloud Parallel File Storage (CPFS) base capacity: CPFS resource plan
- Offset capacity: NAS storage plan
- Storage usage of General-purpose NAS file systems (Capacity or Performance) excluding the storage usage of IA storage media: pay-as-you-go
- Storage usage of IA storage media: pay-as-you-go
- Read traffic of IA storage media: pay-as-you-go
- Write traffic of IA storage media: pay-as-you-go
- Purchased capacity of Extreme NAS file systems
Unit price You are billed on an hourly basis for a billable item. The unit price of each billable item may vary. The actual unit prices are listed in your bill. Unit: USD/GiB Usage The monthly usage of a file system is calculated by using the following formula: Monthly usage = Sum of hourly usage - Usage that is offset by the purchased storage plans and resource plans. Unit: GiB. Hourly average storage usage per month = Usage data/Number of calendar days of the current month/24 Offset by resource plans The storage capacity of resource plans that you can use to offset the monthly usage fee of a file system. Unit: MiB. The total usage fee is offset in the following order: storage plans, resource plans, and storage capacity units (SCUs). You are charged for the remaining usage based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. Official price The fees for the remaining usage based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. The remaining usage is calculated by using the following formula: Remaining usage = Total usage - Total capacity of the available plans. Example: User A creates a Capacity NAS file system in the China (Beijing) region. The hourly usage of the file system is 1,000 GiB in January 2021. A storage plan of 500 GiB is attached to the file system and the user purchases two 100 GiB General-purpose NAS resource plans. The following billing details are displayed in the monthly bill:- Usage: (1,000 GiB - 500 GiB - 100 GiB - 100 GiB) × 31 × 24 = 223,200 GiB
- Capacity of the resource plans: (100 GiB + 100 GiB) × 1,024 = 204,800 MiB
- Official price: 223,200 GiB × USD 0.00008065 per GiB = USD 18
Total monthly fee: USD 18 + USD 22.85 + USD 4.57 + USD 4.57 = USD 49.99
In the preceding formula, USD 22.85 is the 1-month subscription fee for a Capacity storage plan of 500 GiB. USD 4.57 is the 1-month subscription fee for a General-purpose NAS resource plan of 100 GiB.
Query the usage details of file systems
- Log on to the Billing Management console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, click Usage Records.
- On the Usage Records tab, configure the query parameters. The following table describes the parameters.
Parameter Description Product Select File Storage NAS. Time Period Select the time range to query. The start time and the end time must be within the same month. Cross-month queries are not supported. For example, if you select 2019-04-01 as the start time, the end time can be up to 2019-04-30. In this case, you cannot select 2019-05-01 as the end time.
Note If you want to query the usage details of more than 12 months ago, submit a ticket.Time Unit Default value: Hour. Verification Code Enter the verification code in the image. - Click Export CSV. After a table is generated, click Download in the Actions column to save the table to your local computer. Then, you can view the usage details of file systems on your local computer.