If you use the pay-as-you-go billing method for your cluster, you do not need to specify the storage capacity during purchase. The storage capacity automatically scales with data volume. You pay only for the storage you use, with charges incurred on an hourly basis.
Scenarios
Your Alibaba Cloud account has a small amount of data stored in the clusters in specific regions, and the amount of data generated by your business is prone to frequent fluctuations.
Pricing
Table 1. Hourly prices of pay-as-you-go storage
Storage type | Regions in the Chinese mainland | China (Hong Kong) and regions outside China | |
PSL5 | Dual-zone (hot standby storage cluster enabled) | USD 0.000748 per GB-hour | USD 0.000834 per GB-hour |
Dual-zone (hot standby storage cluster and standby compute node enabled) | |||
Single-zone (hot standby storage cluster disabled) | USD 0.000374 per GB-hour | USD 0.000417 per GB-hour | |
PSL4 | Dual-zone (hot standby storage cluster enabled) | USD 0.000486 per GB-hour | USD 0.000542 per GB-hour |
Dual-zone (hot standby storage cluster and standby compute node enabled) | |||
Single-zone (hot standby storage cluster disabled) | USD 0.000243 per GB-hour | USD 0.000271 per GB-hour | |
Use the pay-as-you-go billing method
For more information about how to use the pay-as-you-go billing method for your clusters, see Purchase a pay-as-you-go cluster and Purchase a subscription cluster.