Resource plan overview

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Purchase resource plans to prepay for Simple Log Service usage. During fee settlement, usage is deducted from your resource plans first.

Resource plans

SLS offers the following resource plans.

Resource plan

Description

resource plan - Prepaid Plan

Offsets the fees of all billable items in Simple Log Service.

Note

Each month you receive a fixed quota. Unused quota does not carry over to the next month.

resource plan - Prepaid Plan

The resource plan offsets the fees of all billable items in Simple Log Service. Larger specifications and longer subscription periods provide greater discounts. The system calculates daily SLS usage and deducts it from the resource plan quota. You receive the same quota each month. If the monthly quota is exhausted, excess usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Important
  • Both pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes are supported.

  • SLS offers specification-based discounts for resource plans with a subscription period of one year or longer. The actual discount is displayed on the purchase page. Pay-as-you-go pricing remains unchanged. The Prepaid Plan discount policy applies only to resource plans purchased for one year or longer.

  • Alibaba Cloud charges the full subscription fee upfront when you purchase a resource plan. For example, purchasing a one-year, 100 CU resource plan incurs the full annual fee on the day of purchase.

The specification unit for a resource plan is the Cost Unit (CU).

  • Resource plans support both pay-by-feature and pay-by-ingested-data billing modes.

  • CU consumption for each billable item equals its pay-as-you-go unit price. For example, read/write traffic on the costs USD 0.045 per GB, so offsetting 1 GB consumes 0.045 CUs. See the following tables for details.

Pay-by-feature

Billable item

Resource plan

Read/write traffic (per GB)

0.045 CU

Storage usage - Hot log storage (per GB/day)

0.002875 CU

Storage usage - Time series storage (per GB/day)

0.00048 CU

Index traffic - Log index (per GB)

0.0875 CU

Index traffic - Time series index (per GB)

0.02721 CU

Data transformation (per GB)

0.0204 CU

Data shipping to OSS (JSON or CSV format) (per GB)

0.0068 CU

Data shipping to OSS (Parquet or ORC format) (per GB)

0.0272 CU

Data shipping to MaxCompute (per GB)

0.0272 CU

Data shipping to AnalyticDB (per GB)

0.0272 CU

Data shipping to Lindorm (per GB)

0.0272 CU

Phone call notifications for alerts (per call)

0.02041 CU

Text message notifications for alerts (per message)

0.0068 CU

Dedicated SQL (per core × hour)

0.05174 CU

Storage usage - IA log storage (per GB/day)

0.000762 CU

Storage usage - Archive log storage (per GB/day)

0.000259 CU

Index traffic - Log index - Query type (per GB)

0.0146 CU

Scan traffic (per GB)

0.00762 CU

Read/write operations (per million operations)

0.03 CU

Active shard lease (per shard/day)

0.01 CU

Internet read traffic (per GB)

0.2 CU

Pay-by-ingested-data

Billable item

Resource plan

Raw data writes (per GB)

0.061 CU

Storage usage - Hot log storage (per GB/day)

0.002875 CU

Storage usage - IA log storage (per GB/day)

0.000762 CU

Storage usage - Archive log storage (per GB/day)

0.00026 CU

Internet read traffic (per GB)

0.2 CU

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