Accessing objects in the Archive and Infrequent Access storage classes will incur data retrieval costs based on the objects' size. You are billed for data retrievals regardless of whether you read the objects over an intranet or Internet connection. If you are using an Internet connection, you will also be billed for the outbound Internet traffic generated.
Billing Description
| Billing Item | Sub Item | Description | Billing Mode |
| Data retrievals | The amount of data retrieved | - Reading objects in the Infrequent Access storage class will incur retrieval costs depending on the objects' size.
- Reading objects in the Archive storage class will incur retrieval costs depending on the objects' size and restore speed.
You are billed for data retrievals regardless of whether you read the objects over an intranet or Internet connection. If you are using an Internet connection, you will also be billed for the outbound Internet traffic generated. After an Archive or Deep Archive object is restored, an object copy is generated and stored in the Standard storage class. During the copy retention period, you will be billed for the storage space occupied by both the object and its copy. The object copy will be automatically deleted after it expires. The object copy storage in the entire validity period is billed at a time when the object is restored. Such storage can be billed on a pay-per-use basis or covered by a resource package. NOTE: You can repeatedly restore archived data if you want to: - Prolong the validity: If you do this, the new restore will be also billed. After a second restore, the validity period of Standard object copies will be prolonged, and you need to pay for storing these copies during the prolonged period.
Suppose that you restored an Archive object yesterday, with a validity period of seven days. Then, at the same time today, you made a second restore for the object and configured a validity period of eight days. In this case, the final costs include the cost for two restore operations and the cost for storing the Standard object copy for nine days. - Shorten the validity: If you do this, error code "409 ObjectHasAlreadyRestored" will be reported. In such case, no restoration costs or additional costs for storing Standard object copies are incurred.
| Pay-per-use |
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 10 GB Infrequent Access data to a single-AZ OBS bucket in the EU-Dublin region, and there were 100 requests generated. Then, on July 2, 2023, you read the uploaded data from 08:00 to 24:00 (busy hours), with 100 requests generated, and you did not perform any other operations in the rest of July. You would be billed for the following items:
Bills are settled by hour.
Infrequent Access storage: billed at 00:00 on July 1, 2023
Infrequent Access data retrievals: billed on July 2, 2023
Requests: billed on July 1 and 2, 2023
Outbound Internet traffic: billed on July 2, 2023
There was no resource package applicable to data retrievals, so pay-per-use billing applied.
Pay-per-use billing:
Infrequent Access storage cost = ($0.0140 USD per GB-month/30 days/24 hours) x 10 GB x 48 hours = $0.0093 USD
Retrieval cost = $0.0075 USD/GB x 10 GB = $0.075 USD
Read request cost = $0.0010 USD per 1,000 requests x (100 requests/1,000 requests) = $0.0001 USD
Write request cost = $0.0050 USD per 1,000 requests x (100 requests/1,000 requests) = $0.0005 USD
Outbound Internet traffic cost = $0.1180 USD/GB x 10 GB = $1.180 USD (peak hours)
Total cost: 0.0093 + 0.075 + 0.0001 + 0.0005 + 1.180 = $1.2649 USD
