Purchase resource plans to prepay for Simple Log Service usage. During fee settlement, usage is deducted from your resource plans first. This topic describes the basic information about resource plans.
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 You receive the same quota every month during the validity period. Unused quota is cleared at the end of each month and reset at the start of 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 during the validity period. If the monthly quota is exhausted, excess usage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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, where 1 CU = USD 1.
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 |
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 |
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 |
data transformation (new version) (per GB) | 0.0232 CU |
Rule consumption (per GB) | 0.0232 CU |
Transmission acceleration (per GB) | 0.1935 CU |
Data ingestion processor (per GB) | 0.0232 CU |
index traffic - Scan index (per GB) | 0.01504 CU |
AI computing | 0.0232 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 |
Transmission acceleration (per GB) | 0.1935 CU |
Data ingestion processor (per GB) | 0.0232 CU |
AI computing | 0.0232 CU |