Data Transfer

You will be billed for the traffic generated when data is transferred into or out of OBS. There are the following types of traffic: inbound intranet/Internet traffic, outbound intranet traffic, and outbound Internet traffic.

Billing Description

Billing Item	Sub Item	Description	Billing Mode
Data transfer	Inbound intranet/Internet traffic	The amount of data transferred over a network connection to OBS.	Free
Outbound intranet traffic	The amount of data transferred from OBS to ECSs, CCE, and BMSs in the same region over a Huawei Cloud intranet.	Free
Outbound Internet traffic	The amount of data (in the Standard storage class) transferred out of OBS over the Internet. After Infrequent Access and Archive objects are restored, the outbound Internet traffic generated when you download those restored objects can only be billed on a pay-per-use basis. NOTE: Internet traffic is generated as long as data is downloaded from OBS over the Internet, regardless of whether the download is successful. The outbound Internet traffic generated when you download the restored Infrequent Access and Archive objects cannot be covered by outbound Internet traffic packages.	Pay-per-use Yearly/monthly

Billing Item

Sub Item

Description

Billing Mode

Data transfer

Inbound intranet/Internet traffic

The amount of data transferred over a network connection to OBS.

Free

Outbound intranet traffic

The amount of data transferred from OBS to ECSs, CCE, and BMSs in the same region over a Huawei Cloud intranet.

Free

Outbound Internet traffic

The amount of data (in the Standard storage class) transferred out of OBS over the Internet.

After Infrequent Access and Archive objects are restored, the outbound Internet traffic generated when you download those restored objects can only be billed on a pay-per-use basis.

NOTE:

Internet traffic is generated as long as data is downloaded from OBS over the Internet, regardless of whether the download is successful.
The outbound Internet traffic generated when you download the restored Infrequent Access and Archive objects cannot be covered by outbound Internet traffic packages.

Pay-per-use

Yearly/monthly

Billing Examples

The prices in the following examples are for reference only. For the actual prices, see Pricing Details.

On July 1, 2023, suppose you uploaded 50 GB of Standard data to a single-AZ OBS bucket in the EU-Dublin region, and there were 100 upload requests generated. Then, on the same day and in the same region, you purchased a 1-month outbound Internet traffic package of 50 GB at $2.79 USD. From 08:00 to 24:00 (busy hours) on each of the following two days, you downloaded 50 GB of data to your local PC over the Internet, which generated 100 requests a day, and you did not perform any other operations in the rest of July. You would be billed for the following items:

Standard storage: billed every day from July 1, 2023

Requests: billed on July 1, 2, and 3, 2023

Traffic: billed on July 2 and 3, 2023

Specific billing analysis is given as follows:

Pay-per-use billing:

Standard storage cost = ($0.0230 USD per GB-month)/30 x 50 GB x 30 days = $1.15 USD

Request cost = $0.0001 USD per 1,000 requests x (100 requests/1,000 requests) x 3 = $0.00003 USD

Outbound Internet traffic cost = $0.1180 USD/GB x 50 GB x 2 = $11.8 USD

Yearly/monthly (resource package) billing:

On July 2, 2023, the purchased package covered the 50 GB traffic generated. On July 3, 2027, the 50 GB traffic was billed on a pay-per-use basis ($0.1180 USD/GB x 50 GB = $5.9 USD). The total cost in July was as follows:

Total cost = 2.79 + 1.15 + 0.00003 + 5.9 = $9.84003 USD

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