With the bill-by-capacity (pay-as-you-go) billing method, you do not need to specify a storage capacity at the time of purchase. Storage space automatically scales as your data grows, and you are charged hourly for the storage space that you use.
Scenarios
The total storage usage across all clusters in a specific region for an Alibaba Cloud account is low, and the workload fluctuates frequently.
Price list
Table 1. Pay-as-you-go storage pricing per GB (hourly)
Storage class | The Chinese mainland | China (Hong Kong) and other regions | |
PSL5 | Dual-zone deployment (hot standby storage cluster enabled) | USD 0.000748/GB/hour | USD 0.000834/GB/hour |
Dual-zone deployment (hot standby storage cluster and compute standby enabled) | |||
Single zone (hot standby storage cluster disabled) | USD 0.000374/GB/hour | USD 0.000417/GB/hour | |
PSL4 | Dual-zone deployment (hot standby storage cluster enabled) | USD 0.000486/GB/hour | USD 0.000542/GB/hour |
Dual-zone deployment (hot standby storage cluster and compute standby enabled) | |||
Single zone (hot standby storage cluster disabled) | USD 0.000243/GB/hour | USD 0.000271/GB/hour | |
How to purchase
For more information about how to purchase a cluster with a pay-as-you-go storage class, see Purchase a pay-as-you-go cluster and Purchase a subscription cluster.