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Billing Items

Description

Fees of DMS for Kafka consist of instance fees and storage space fees. For details, see Table 1.

Learn about Distributed Message Service for Kafka Pricing Details.

Table 1 Billing items of DMS for Kafka

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Billing Formula

Instance

Billing factors: broker specifications and quantity

Enabling Smart Connect incurs additional broker fees.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

Instance specification unit price x Purchase duration

For the instance specification unit price, see Instance Price on the Product Pricing Details page.

Storage space

Billing factors: EVS disk type and capacity

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

EVS disk unit price x Purchase duration

For the EVS unit price, see Storage Price on the Product Pricing Details page.

Billing Samples

Take the yearly/monthly mode as an example. Assume that you purchased a yearly/monthly Kafka instance (kafka.2u4g.cluster × 3, ultra-high I/O 300 GB total storage space) in AP-Singapore on Mar 08, 2023, 15:50:04. The billing items include the instance (broker flavor and quantity) and storage space (ultra-high I/O 300 GB). Assume the subscription is for one month, and will be manually renewed for one month before it expires:

  • The first billing period: Mar 08, 2023, 15:50:04–Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59
  • The second billing period: Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59–May 08, 2023, 23:59:59

Figure 1 shows the billing calculation.

The prices in the following two pictures are for reference only. Actual prices are subject to Product Pricing Details.

Figure 1 Sample fees calculation of a yearly/monthly Kafka instance (AP-Singapore)

For billing samples of each billing item in pay-per-use mode, see Billing Samples.