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Billing Examples

Example 1

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

  • Billing Scenario

A company has a large amount of video and audio data to store in the Standard storage class (multi-AZ) in OBS. Suppose this company uploads 1 TB of data to OBS over the Internet. There are 1 million delete requests, 3 million write requests, and 12 million read requests each month, and the outbound Internet traffic is 100 GB every month. The following billing analysis is given to help the company choose a proper billing mode.

  • Billing Analysis

The table below describes the details of pay-per-use billing and yearly/monthly billing.

Billing Mode

Formula

Payment Period

Cost

Pay-per-use

Storage cost: Unit price x Used space

Monthly

Storage cost: $0.0250 USD per GB-month x 1,024 GB = $25.6 USD per month

Traffic cost: Unit price of outbound Internet traffic x Traffic volume

Traffic cost: $0.1080 USD per GB x 100 GB = $10.80 USD per month

Request cost: costs of all requests

Request cost: $0.0004 USD (per 1,000 delete requests) x 1 million delete requests + $0.0050 USD (per 1,000 write requests) x 3 million write requests + $0.0004 USD (per 1,000 read requests) x 12 million read requests = $20.2 USD per month

Total

$56.6 USD per month

Yearly/monthly

Storage cost: monthly cost of the storage package

Monthly. Suppose the company purchased a 12-month 1 TB storage package and a 12-month 100 GB outbound Internet traffic package.

Storage cost: $209.7 USD (price for the 12-month 1 TB storage package)/12 months = $17.475 USD per month

Traffic cost: monthly cost of the outbound Internet traffic package

Traffic cost: $95.4 USD (price for the 12-month 100 GB traffic package)/12 months = $7.95 USD per month

Request cost: costs of all requests

Request cost: $0.0004 USD (per 1,000 delete requests) x 1 million delete requests + $0.0050 USD (per 1,000 write requests) x 3 million write requests + $0.0004 USD (per 1,000 read requests) x 12 million read requests = $20.2 USD per month

Total

$45.625 USD per month

You can see from the table above that yearly/monthly resource packages save you money. The longer the package subscription term is, the more money you save.