What Are the Special Billing Scenarios of OBS?

If you configure lifecycle rules to perform actions automatically, you will be billed. The following tables list billable items and descriptions.

For billing details, see Billing.

**Table 1** Fees related to lifecycle management actions (during action execution)
Action	Billing Category	Billing Description
Delete after expiration	Requests	Free
Delete after expiration	Storage space	If objects are deleted before they have been stored for the required minimum duration (30 days for Infrequent Access storage and 90 days for Archive storage), you will still be charged for the full period.
Transition from Standard to Infrequent Access	Requests	You are charged for the transition based on the number of transitioned objects. A transitioned request transition an object. Specifically, if N objects are successfully transitioned, you are charged for N requests.
Transition from Standard to Archive	Requests
Transition from Infrequent Access to Archive	Requests

**Table 2** Fees related to lifecycle management actions (after action execution)
Action	Billing Category	Billing Description
Delete after expiration	N/A	N/A
Transition from Standard to Infrequent Access	Storage space	After the transition, object storage fee is calculated based on the Infrequent Access storage price.
Transition from Standard to Infrequent Access	Data restoration	Reading an object stored in the Infrequent Access storage class will incur data restoration charges based on the object size and restoration speed.
Transition from Standard to Archive	Storage space	After the transition, object storage fee is calculated based on the Archive storage price.
Transition from Standard to Archive	Data restoration	Reading an object stored in the Archive storage class will incur data restoration charges based on the object size and restoration speed.
Transition from Infrequent Access to Archive	Storage space	After the transition, object storage fee is calculated based on the Archive storage price. If objects in the Infrequent Access storage class are transitioned to the Archive storage class before they have been stored for the required minimum duration (30 days), you will still be charged for the full period of 30 days.
Transition from Infrequent Access to Archive	Data restoration	Reading an object stored in the Archive storage class will incur data restoration charges based on the object size and restoration speed.

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