ECS Savings Plans: Cost-effective Cloud Services Pricing

Savings Plans

Offsets pay-as-you-go bills for ECS computing resources, system disks, and public bandwidth.
Improves flexibility and reduces costs by up to 76%.

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Benefits

Flexibility

Savings plans can be applied to pay-as-you-go instances across instance families, sizes, images, and regions to suit business needs and reduce usage costs.

Cost-Effectiveness

You can select a duration of one or three years for your savings plans based on your business needs. You can choose between general-purpose and ECS compute savings plans based on your business convergence. Savings plans can reduce usage costs by up to 76%.

Ease of Use

A plan calculator is provided to help you select savings plans more accurately. The calculator recommends savings plans based on your business needs.

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Comparison of Plan Types

ECS compute savings plans are less flexible but offer higher discounts than general purpose savings plans.

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Item	General-purpose	ECS Compute
Use Across Services	Can be used across services. General-purpose savings plans can be applied to the following services and resources: Computing resources (vCPU and memory), system disks, and public bandwidth of ECS instances Computing resources (vCPU and memory) of ECI instances	Can only be applied to computing resources (vCPU and memory), system disks, and public bandwidth of ECS instances.
Region Limitations	Has no limitations on regions.	Can only be applied within a single region.
Instance Limitations	Has no limitations on instance families, instance sizes, or operating systems.	Can only be applied to a specific instance family regardless of the instance size or operating system.

Purchase and Use Guidelines

1

Select a Savings Plan Type

Choose between general-purpose (high flexibility) and
ECS compute (offers higher billing discounts but requires regions and instance families to be selected.)

2

Make an Hourly Commitment

Specify an hourly commitment. If you have instances running, the system recommends a suitable hourly commitment based on your past consumption trends.

3

Select a Payment Option and Duration

Select a payment option (All Upfront/Partial Upfront/No Upfront) and payment duration (one year/three years)

4

Payment and Activation

Savings plans are automatically applied to offset the bills of pay-as-you-go instances in real-time without any further operations.

5

Manage Savings Plans

Savings plans can be monitored and managed in real-time in the Alibaba Cloud Management Console.

Success Stories

Finance

A customer in the finance industry has multiple subscription ECS instances of different instance families in multiple regions. These instances are difficult to manage and cannot be flexibly adjusted. The customer uses savings plans to improve efficiency and reduce costs by 23%.

Online Education

A customer in online education needs to change the configurations of ECS instances to meet business requirements frequently. The subscription billing method requires that the price difference be made up for configuration upgrades. Savings plans enable the customer to upgrade the configurations of ECS instances at any time without a need to make up the price difference. It also reduced the costs by 17%.

Gaming

A customer in the gaming industry has its business deployed in a variety of environments and needs to create and release ECS instances frequently. Subscription instances are complicated to manage and must be released, refunded, and then repurchased, whereas pay-as-you-go instances cost more. Savings plans help simplify operations at no additional costs.

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Benefits

Flexibility

Cost-Effectiveness

Ease of Use

Comparison of Plan Types

Purchase and Use Guidelines

1

Select a Savings Plan Type

2

Make an Hourly Commitment

3

Select a Payment Option and Duration

4

Payment and Activation

5

Manage Savings Plans

Success Stories

Finance

Online Education

Gaming

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