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Resource Planning and Costs

This solution will deploy the resources listed in the following table. The costs are only estimates and may differ from the final prices. For details, see Price Calculator.

Community Standalone Edition

Table 1 Resource planning and costs (pay-per-use)

Huawei Cloud Service

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Cost for One Complete Process (1 hour)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • CIDR Block: 172.16.0.0/16

1

0.00

Subnet
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • IPv4 CIDR Block: 172.16.1.0/24
  • Gateway: 172.16.1.1

1

0.00

SecurityGroup
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Allow ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open port 22 to allow Cloud Shell login: 119.8.185.245/32

1

0.00

Flexus X Instance
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Specifications: Flexus X Instance | Performance Mode (Disabled) | x1.8u.16g | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • System Disk: High I/O | 100GB
  • Image: Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit

1

$0.2862 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Routing Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Billing Mode: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300Mbit/s

1

$0.114 USD/GB

MaaS tokens (Optional)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

-

Input: $0.27 USD/1M tokens

Output: $1.078 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$0.2862 USD + Public network traffic price + MaaS tokens billing
Table 2 Resource planning and costs (yearly/monthly)

Huawei Cloud Service

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Monthly Cost

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • CIDR Block: 172.16.0.0/16

1

0.00

Subnet
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • IPv4 CIDR Block: 172.16.1.0/24
  • Gateway: 172.16.1.1

1

0.00

SecurityGroup
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Allow ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open port 22 to allow Cloud Shell login: 119.8.185.245/32

1

0.00

Flexus X Instance
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Specifications: Flexus X Instance | Performance Mode (Disabled) | x1.8u.16g | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • System Disk: High I/O | 100GB
  • Image: Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit

1

$151.85 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Routing Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Billing Mode: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300Mbit/s

1

$0.114 USD/GB

MaaS tokens (Optional)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

-

Input: $0.27 USD/1M tokens

Output: $1.078 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$151.85 USD + Public network traffic price + MaaS tokens billing

CCE Container High Availability Edition

Table 3 Resource planning and costs (pay-per-use)

Huawei Cloud Service

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Cost for One Complete Process (1 hour)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • CIDR Block: 192.168.0.0/16

1

0.00

Subnet
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • IPv4 CIDR Block: 192.168.200.0/24, 192.168.201.0/24, 192.168.202.0/24
  • Gateway: 192.168.200.1, 192.168.201.1, 192.168.202.1

3

0.00

SecurityGroup
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Allow ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open port 22 to allow Cloud Shell login: 119.8.185.245/32

4

0.00

Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: CCE Turbo
  • Specifications: cce.s2.small (50 nodes)
  • Master Nodes: 3

1

$0.54 USD

Flexus X Instance
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Specifications: Flexus X Instance | Performance Mode (Disabled) | x1.8u.16g | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • System Disk: General Purpose SSD | 100GB
  • Image: Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit

3

$0.8847 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Routing Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Billing Mode: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300Mbit/s

3

$0.114 USD/GB

Elastic Load Balance (ELB)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: Dedicated load balancer
  • AZs: 2
  • Specifications: Elastic
  • Load Balancing Type: Application load balancing

1

$0.025 USD/hour+LCU $0.00833 USD/LCU (Charge LCU fees based on actual usage)

NAT Gateway (NAT)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Gateway: Public network
  • Type: Small

1

$2.438 USD

Distributed Cache Service DCS (for Redis)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: Redis 6.0 (Master/Standby)
  • Specifications: 1G (Basic) | Replicas: 2

1

$0.034 USD

RDS for MySQL
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: MySQL (Master/Standby)
  • Specifications: rds.mysql.n1.xlarge.2.ha | 4 vCPUs | 8 GB(General-purpose)
  • Storage: Cloud SSD | 100 GB

1

$0.77 USD

MaaS tokens (Optional)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

1

Input: $0.27 USD/1M tokens

Output: $1.078 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$4.6917 USD + Application LCU billing + Public network traffic price + MaaS tokens billing
Table 4 Resource planning and costs (yearly/monthly)

Huawei Cloud Service

Configuration Example

Quantity

Estimated Monthly Cost

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • CIDR Block: 192.168.0.0/16

1

0.00

Subnet
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • IPv4 CIDR Block: 192.168.200.0/24, 192.168.201.0/24, 192.168.202.0/24
  • Gateway: 192.168.200.1, 192.168.201.1, 192.168.202.1

3

0.00

SecurityGroup
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Allow ping: 0.0.0.0/0
  • Open port 22 to allow Cloud Shell login: 119.8.185.245/32

4

0.00

Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: CCE Turbo
  • Specifications: cce.s2.small (50 nodes)
  • Master Nodes: Single

1

$81.63 USD

Flexus X Instance
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Specifications: Flexus X Instance | Performance Mode (Disabled) | x1.8u.16g | 8 vCPUs | 16 GiB
  • System Disk: General Purpose SSD | 100GB
  • Image: Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit

3

$474.45 USD

Elastic IP (EIP)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Routing Type: Dynamic BGP
  • Billing Mode: traffic
  • Bandwidth: 300Mbit/s

3

$0.114 USD/GB

Elastic Load Balance (ELB)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: Dedicated load balancer
  • Specifications: Fixed
  • AZs: 2
  • Load Balancing Type: Application load balancing
  • Application load balancing: Small I

1

$66.7 USD

NAT Gateway (NAT)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Gateway: Public network
  • Type: Small

1

$57.3 USD

Distributed Cache Service DCS (for Redis)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: Redis 6.0 (Master/Standby)
  • Specifications: 1G (Basic) | Replicas: 2

1

$31.32 USD

RDS for MySQL
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Type: MySQL (Master/Standby)
  • Specifications: rds.mysql.n1.xlarge.2.ha | 4 vCPUs | 8 GB(General-purpose)
  • Storage: Cloud SSD | 100 GB

1

$410.92 USD

MaaS tokens (Optional)
  • Region: AP-Singapore
  • Billing Mode: Token-based billing
  • Model: DeepSeek-V3

1

Input: $0.27 USD/1M tokens

Output: $1.078 USD/1M tokens

Total

-

-

$1122.32 USD + Public network traffic price + MaaS tokens billing