Starting April 2020, Alibaba Cloud stops providing free high-performance Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instances of the slb.s1.small specification. You are charged for slb.s1.small CLB instances that are created after April 2020.
Billing rules
The unit price for the slb.s1.small specification is USD 0.006 per hour. The price may vary by region. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go. The following section describes the billing rules:
For slb.s1.small CLB instances that are purchased after the effective billing date, you are charged a specification fee.
slb.s1.small CLB instances that are purchased before the effective billing date are free of charge. If you modify the specification of an CLB instance after the effective billing date, you are charged a specification fee.
If a pay-as-you-go CLB instance is downgraded from larger sizes to slb.s1.small after the effective billing date, you are charged a specification fee based on the slb.s1.small specification. For more information, see Pay-as-you-go.
The preceding rules are applied from April 2020. The effective billing date may vary by region and site. We recommend that you pay close attention to your bills.