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Billing (Dedicated Load Balancers)

This section describes how dedicated load balancers will be billed.

Billing Items

The following table describes the billing items of dedicated load balancers.

Table 1 Billing items

Billing Mode

Load Balancer

LCU

Billing Formula

Pay-per-use

√

√

Load balancer price + LCU price

NOTE:

The load balancers are free of charge. You only need to pay for the LCUs.

Table 2 describes the billing items.

Table 2 Billing items

Billing Item

Description

Load balancer

You will be charged for the duration that you use the dedicated load balancer. If the load balancer is used for less than 1 hour, you will be charged for the actual duration, accurate to seconds.

LCU

You will be charged for the number of LCUs used by a dedicated load balancer.
  • √ indicates that the billing item is involved. × indicates that the billing item is not involved.
  • An LCU measures the dimensions on which a dedicated load balancer routes the traffic. The four dimensions measured are as follows:
    • New connections: the number of new connections that a dedicated load balancer establishes per second
    • Maximum concurrent connections: the maximum number of concurrent connections that a dedicated load balancer can handle
    • Queries per second: the number of Layer-7 HTTP or HTTPS requests that a dedicated load balancer routes to a backend server per second
    • Processed traffic: each GB of data transferred through a dedicated load balancer
  • If you bind an EIP to a dedicated load balancer, you will also be charged for the EIP and the bandwidth used by the EIP.

Billing Mode

Dedicated load balancers can be billed on a pay-per-use basis.

Dedicated load balancers provide Layer-4 packages and Layer-7 packages. You can select a Layer-4 package, a Layer-7 package, or both based on your requirements.

  • The total bandwidth is the inbound or outbound bandwidth used for traffic to or from the backend servers.
  • For details, see Table 2 and Table 3.
  • Pay-per-use

    Formula: Total price = Load balancer price + LCU price

    • Load balancer price = Unit price (EUR/hour) x Usage duration
    • LCU price = Unit price (EUR/hour) x LCU quantity in a single AZ x Number of AZs x Usage duration
Parent topic: Service Overview