Billing Examples

Updated on 2024-08-09 GMT+08:00

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Example 1

NOTICE:

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

Billing Scenario

An enterprise runs its basic services on Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs). As its data grows, the disks cannot satisfy the storage and access for a large number of images and videos. The enterprise decides to use Huawei Cloud OBS as a storage resource pool to reduce burdens on local servers. Suppose the enterprise has one ECS in regions CN-Hong Kong and AP-Singapore respectively. Both ECSs write data to and read data from OBS buckets in the CN-Hong Kong region.

User Actions

The detailed actions are as follows:

- At 00:00 UTC on July 1, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects (1 GB in total) and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects (1 GB in total) were uploaded from the ECS in the AP-Singapore region to a single-AZ bucket in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects were downloaded from the ECS in the AP-Singapore region to a bucket in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects were downloaded from the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region to a bucket in the same region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Infrequent Access images were processed on the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 08:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, a lifecycle rule was configured on the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region to transition 1,000 Standard objects and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects in the current region to Infrequent Access and Archive, respectively, eight days later (on July 10).

- At 08:00 UTC on July 20, 2023, 100 Archive objects (0.1 GB in total) were downloaded from the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region. The objects were restored at a standard speed, and the Standard object copies after restore were retained for 10 days.

Billing Analysis

An ECS can access OBS over the Internet or an intranet. Access over an intranet requires that the ECS and OBS buckets be in the same region. In this scenario, access from the ECS in CN-Hong Kong to OBS buckets in CN-Hong Kong is over an intranet, while access from the ECS in AP-Singapore to OBS buckets in CN-Hong Kong is over the Internet. Table 1 describes the billing details in July.

**Table 1** Billing details
Category	Action	Billed Item	Unit Price	Usage	Cost
Object upload over the Internet	Uploaded 1,000 Standard objects and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects from the ECS in AP-Singapore to a bucket in CN-Hong Kong.	Requests	Standard write requests: $0.0001 USD per 1,000 requests Infrequent Access write requests: $0.0050 USD per 1,000 requests	2,000 requests Standard write requests: 1,000 Infrequent Access write requests: 1,000	Standard write requests: $0.0001 USD Infrequent Access write requests: $0.0050 USD Total: $0.0051 USD
		Inbound Internet traffic	Free	1 GB	$0 USD
		Single-AZ Standard storage	$0.0230 USD per GB-month	1 GB	$0.0077 USD
		Single-AZ Infrequent Access storage	$0.0140 USD per GB-month	1 GB	$0.0047 USD
Object download over the Internet	Downloaded 1,000 Standard objects from the ECS in AP-Singapore to a bucket in CN-Hong Kong.	Requests	$0.0001 USD per 1,000 requests	1,000 requests	$0.0001 USD
Object download over the Internet		Outbound Internet traffic	$0.1180 USD per GB	1 GB	$0.1180 USD
Object download over an intranet	Downloaded 1,000 Standard objects from the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region to a bucket in the same region.	Requests	$0.0001 USD per 1,000 requests	1,000 requests	$0.0001 USD
Object download over an intranet		Outbound intranet traffic	Free	1 GB	$0 USD
Image processing	Processed 1,000 Infrequent Access images on the ECS in CN-Hong Kong.	Requests	$0.0050 USD per 1,000 requests	1,000 requests	$0.0050 USD
Image processing		Data processing	Free	1 GB	$0 USD
Lifecycle-based storage class transition	Transitioned 1,000 Standard objects and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects in the CN-Hong Kong region to Infrequent Access and Archive, respectively, 10 days later.	Requests	Standard write requests: $0.0001 USD per 1,000 requests Infrequent Access write requests: $0.0050 USD per 1,000 requests	2,000 requests Standard write requests: 1,000 Infrequent Access write requests: 1,000	Standard write requests: $0.0001 USD Infrequent Access write requests: $0.0050 USD Total: $0.0051 USD
		Single-AZ Infrequent Access storage	$0.0140 USD per GB-month	1 GB	$0.0093 USD
		Single-AZ Archive storage	$0.0045 USD per GB-month	1 GB	$0.0030 USD
		Early deletion or transition of Infrequent Access objects	$0.0140 USD per GB-month	1 GB	$0.0093 USD
Archive object download	Downloaded 100 Archive objects from the ECS in CN-Hong Kong.	Requests	$0.0010 USD per 1,000 requests	100 requests	$0.0001 USD
		Restore traffic	$0.0300 USD per GB (1–5 minutes for expedited restore) $0.0100 USD per GB (3–5 hours for standard restore)	0.1 GB	$0.001 USD
		Temporary single-AZ Standard storage	$0.0230 USD per GB-month	0.1 GB	$0.00077 USD

Storage Cost

The storage cost consists of two parts: cost for storage before the transition on July 10 and cost for storage after the transition:

Storage cost before transition = 0.0077 (for 10-day single-AZ Standard storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0047 (for 10-day single-AZ Infrequent Access storage of 1 GB data) = $0.0124 USD

Storage cost after transition = 0.0093 (for 21-day single-AZ Infrequent Access storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0030 (for 21-day single-AZ Archive storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0093 (for early deletion or transition of 1 GB Infrequent Access data) = $0.0216 USD

Total storage cost = 0.0124 (storage cost before transition) + 0.0216 (storage cost after transition) + 0.00077 (for 10-day single-AZ Standard storage of 0.1 GB data) = $0.03477 USD

Traffic Cost

Inbound Internet traffic and inbound/outbound intranet traffic are free, so the traffic cost in July is as follows:

Total traffic cost = Cost for outbound Internet traffic of 1 GB = $0.1180 USD

Restore Cost

Total restore cost = Cost for the traffic of restoring 0.1 GB data = $0.001 USD

Data Processing Cost

Total data processing cost = Cost for processing 1 GB of data = $0 USD

Request Cost

Total request cost = 0.0051 (for 2,000 upload requests) + 0.0002 (for 2,000 download requests) + 0.0050 (for 1,000 image processing requests) + 0.0051 (for 2,000 transition requests) + 0.0001 (for 100 restore requests) = $0.0155 USD

Total Cost

Total cost = 0.03477 (storage cost) + 0.1180 (traffic cost) + 0.001 (restore cost) + 0 (data processing cost) + 0.0155 (request cost) = $0.16927 USD

Example 2

NOTICE:

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.

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