Resource Package Overview

Introduction

You can purchase a yearly/monthly resource package to save money, but if your usage exceeds the package quota, subsequently used resources will be billed on a pay-per-use basis. For details, see Resource Package Purchase.

OBS does not allow you to unsubscribe from resource packages, so plan the resource quota and validity period carefully before making your purchase.
Any usage before the purchase of a resource package cannot be covered by the resource package. For example, you have stored 500 GB data in a single-AZ Standard bucket in the EU-Dublin region. Then on June 30, 2023, you purchased a single-AZ Standard resource package in the EU-Dublin region. The resource package took effect on that day. In such case, the purchased resource package does not cover the storage cost (for 500 GB data) incurred before June 30, 2023, but it can cover the storage cost incurred after June 30, 2023.

Standard storage packages (with valid period shorter than one year) offer free quotas of requests.

Standard storage packages (with valid period longer than one year) are cheaper than monthly packages, so free quotas of requests are not offered. In this case, you will be charged for your actual read and write requests.

**Table 1** Yearly/Monthly resource packages
Resource Package	Function	Constraints
Standard storage	Covers storage for data stored in the Standard storage class.	Applies only to data stored in the Standard storage class and in the region you specified for the purchased package.
Outbound Internet traffic	Covers network traffic generated for transferring Standard data from OBS to local devices over the Internet.	Applies only to data stored in the region that you specified for the purchased package. This type of package is applicable to both single-AZ and multi-AZ buckets. After Infrequent Access or Archive objects are restored, the outbound Internet traffic generated when you download those restored objects cannot be covered by outbound Internet traffic packages. Such traffic can only be billed on a pay-per-use basis.

Resource packages below can also be used for parallel file systems.

**Table 2** Resource packages available for parallel file systems
Resource Package	Function	Constraints
Standard storage	Covers Standard storage for data stored in parallel file systems.	Applies only to Standard data stored in parallel file systems that are in the region you specified for the purchased package.
Outbound Internet traffic	Covers network traffic generated for transferring Standard data from parallel file systems to local devices over the Internet.	Applies only to data stored in the region that you specified for the purchased package. This type of package is applicable to both single-AZ and multi-AZ parallel file systems.

Resource Package Use Sequence

Use Sequence

If there are multiple resource packages with the same attributes, the packages that were in effect latest and that expire soonest are used first. See the examples below for details.

Examples

Scenario
A customer purchased two Standard storage packages in the EU-Dublin region. Package A (100 GB): valid from October 1, 2020 to December 1, 2020 (2 months) Package B (500 GB): valid from October 10, 2020 to December 10, 2020 (2 months)
Use sequence
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 9	Package A was used. The Standard storage usage beyond 100 GB was billed a pay-per-use basis.
From Oct. 10 to Nov. 30	Both packages A and B were used. Package A was used first, and any usage beyond 100 GB was covered by package B. After the 600 GB, covered by both packages combined, was used up, any other usage was billed on a pay-per-use basis.
From Dec. 1 to Dec. 9	Package A had expired. Only package B was used. The usage beyond 500 GB (covered by package B) was billed on a pay-per-use basis.
From Dec. 10 on	Both packages A and B had expired. Any subsequent usage was billed on a pay-per-use basis.