Billing Examples

Example 1

The prices in the following examples are for reference only. For the actual prices, see Pricing Details.

• Billing Scenario

An enterprise runs its basic services on Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs). As its data grows, the disks cannot satisfy the storage and access for a large number of images and videos. The enterprise decides to use Huawei Cloud OBS as a storage resource pool to reduce burdens on local servers. Suppose the enterprise has one ECS in regions CN-Hong Kong and AP-Singapore respectively. Both ECSs write data to and read data from OBS buckets in the CN-Hong Kong region.

• User Actions

The detailed actions are as follows:

- At 00:00 UTC on July 1, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects (1 GB in total) and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects (1 GB in total) were uploaded from the ECS in the AP-Singapore region to a single-AZ bucket in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects were downloaded from the ECS in the AP-Singapore region to a bucket in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Standard objects were downloaded from the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region to a bucket in the same region.

- At 00:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, 1,000 Infrequent Access images were processed on the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region.

- At 08:00 UTC on July 2, 2023, a lifecycle rule was configured on the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region to transition 1,000 Standard objects and 1,000 Infrequent Access objects in the current region to Infrequent Access and Archive, respectively, eight days later (on July 10).

- At 08:00 UTC on July 20, 2023, 100 Archive objects (0.1 GB in total) were downloaded from the ECS in the CN-Hong Kong region. The objects were restored at a standard speed, and the Standard object copies after restore were retained for 10 days.

• Billing Analysis

An ECS can access OBS over the Internet or an intranet. Access over an intranet requires that the ECS and OBS buckets be in the same region. In this scenario, access from the ECS in CN-Hong Kong to OBS buckets in CN-Hong Kong is over an intranet, while access from the ECS in AP-Singapore to OBS buckets in CN-Hong Kong is over the Internet. Table 1 describes the billing details in July.

Storage Cost

The storage cost consists of two parts: cost for storage before the transition on July 10 and cost for storage after the transition:

Storage cost before transition = 0.0077 (for 10-day single-AZ Standard storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0047 (for 10-day single-AZ Infrequent Access storage of 1 GB data) = $0.0124 USD

Storage cost after transition = 0.0093 (for 21-day single-AZ Infrequent Access storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0030 (for 21-day single-AZ Archive storage of 1 GB data) + 0.0093 (for early deletion or transition of 1 GB Infrequent Access data) = $0.0216 USD

Total storage cost = 0.0124 (storage cost before transition) + 0.0216 (storage cost after transition) + 0.00077 (for 10-day single-AZ Standard storage of 0.1 GB data) = $0.03477 USD

Traffic Cost

Inbound Internet traffic and inbound/outbound intranet traffic are free, so the traffic cost in July is as follows:

Total traffic cost = Cost for outbound Internet traffic of 1 GB = $0.1180 USD

Restore Cost

Total restore cost = Cost for the traffic of restoring 0.1 GB data = $0.001 USD

Data Processing Cost

Total data processing cost = Cost for processing 1 GB of data = $0 USD

Request Cost

Total request cost = 0.0051 (for 2,000 upload requests) + 0.0002 (for 2,000 download requests) + 0.0050 (for 1,000 image processing requests) + 0.0051 (for 2,000 transition requests) + 0.0001 (for 100 restore requests) = $0.0155 USD

Total Cost

Total cost = 0.03477 (storage cost) + 0.1180 (traffic cost) + 0.001 (restore cost) + 0 (data processing cost) + 0.0155 (request cost) = $0.16927 USD

Example 2

The prices in the following examples are for reference only. For the actual prices, see Pricing Details.

• Billing Scenario

A company has a large amount of video and audio data to store in the Standard storage class (multi-AZ) in OBS. Suppose this company uploads 1 TB of data to OBS over the Internet. There are 1 million delete requests, 3 million write requests, and 12 million read requests each month, and the outbound Internet traffic is 100 GB every month. The following billing analysis is given to help the company choose a proper billing mode.

• Billing Analysis