Help Center/ Relational Database Service/ Billing/ Cost Management/ Cost Optimization
Updated on 2024-03-07 GMT+08:00
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Cost Optimization

You can identify resources with high costs based on the analysis results in the cost center, determine the causes of high costs, and take optimization measures accordingly.

Resource rightsizing

  • View DB instance monitoring metrics on the Cloud Eye console, such as the CPU, memory, and disk usage. If the current configuration is more than you need, you can downgrade the instance class.
  • Identify idle resources and delete idle DB instances in a timely manner.
  • Purchase general-purpose DB instances for workloads requiring low performance stability to reduce costs.

Billing mode selection

Different types of services have different requirements on resource usage periods, so the most economical billing mode for one resource may not be the best option for another resource.

  • For mature services that tend to be stable for the long term, select yearly/monthly billing.
  • For short-term, unpredictable services that experience traffic bursts and cannot afford to be interrupted, select pay-per-use billing.
  • Monitor the lifecycle of DB instances and renew yearly/monthly instances that are about to expire in a timely manner.
Parent topic: Cost Management