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Billing

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To use G42 DWS, you only need to pay for the data warehouse node flavor you choose and corresponding resources you use.

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Data warehouse node

You pay for the node flavor you choose.

  • Pay per use (hourly)

Snapshot storage space

DWS provides some free-of-charge storage for you to store the snapshot data. However, when you use more storage space than the free-of-charge storage space, the excessive space usage will be billed based on OBS billing standards on a pay-per-use basis.

The free-of-charge space is the same as the size of the total storage space of your cluster. (Free-of-charge space = Storage space of a single node x Number of nodes)

Disk storage

You can customize the storage type and capacity used by the cluster. The storage resources are charged separately.

(Optional) EIP and bandwidth
  • Bind an EIP to a DWS cluster. The EIP is billed as per VPC EIP pricing rules.
  • You are not billed for the traffic generated by the DWS cluster on the G42 network.

(Optional) Database encryption key (DEK)

If the Encrypt DataStore function is enabled when you create a DWS cluster, keys of Key Management Service (KMS) are required to encrypt and decrypt the database. Keys are billed based on the DEW billing standards.

Billing Mode

  • Pay per use (hourly): In this billing mode, you can enable or disable DWS as you like. You are charged based on your usage duration (accurate to minutes). A bill is generated every natural hour.

Changing Configurations

DWS provides multiple node flavors. After a cluster is created, you can add nodes to scale it out as your service volume increases.

If the scale-out configuration change method provided by DWS does not meet your requirements, you can create a cluster again and migrate data to the cluster to realize cluster configuration change.

Parent topic: Service Overview