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TaurusDB Instance Billing Items

You will be billed for the instance specifications, storage space, and backup space. For details, see Table 1.

Table 1 Billing items

Billing Item

Billing Factor

Billing Mode

Billing Formula

(Mandatory) DB instance

vCPUs, memory, and number of nodes

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

Specifications unit price x Required duration x Number of nodes

For details about the unit price, see "Specification Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details.

(Mandatory) Storage

Storage space, which is billed based on the unified standard

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

Storage space unit price x Storage space x Required duration

For details about the unit price, see "Storage Space Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details.

(Mandatory) Backup space

Backup space, which is billed based on the unified standard

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

Backup space unit price x Billed backup space x Billed duration

For details about the unit price, see "Backup Storage Price" in TaurusDB Pricing Details.

NOTE:

The billed duration refers to the length of time the billed backup space was used for.

(Optional) EIP bandwidth

Bandwidth, traffic, and EIP reservation (An EIP is required if a DB instance needs to access the Internet.)

Yearly/Monthly EIP: billed by bandwidth

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

Billed by fixed bandwidth

For details about the unit price, see "By Bandwidth" in EIP Pricing Details.

(Optional) Monitoring by Seconds

Monitoring interval, which is billed based on the unified standard

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

Unit price of Monitoring by Seconds x Billed duration

For details about the unit price, see Configuring Monitoring by Seconds.

NOTE:

Billed duration: indicates the usage duration of Monitoring by Seconds (1s or 5s).

(Optional) HTAP instance

If you create a standard HTAP instance for a TaurusDB instance, you will be billed for the HTAP instance.

Yearly/Monthly, pay-per-use, and serverless

For details, see HTAP Instance Billing Items.

(Optional) Cross-region backup

If cross-region backup is enabled, you will be billed for backup space and network traffic required for dumping cross-region backups.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

For details, see TaurusDB Cross-Region Backup Billing Items.

(Optional) Proxy instance

Proxy instances are free.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

N/A

(Optional) DRS migration

If you use Data Replication Service (DRS) for data migration, you will be billed based on the DRS pricing standard.

Yearly/Monthly and pay-per-use

For details, see DRS Billing.