Billing Examples

Billing Scenarios

Suppose you purchased a pay-per-use dedicated load balancer at 15:30:00 on April 18, 2023 and configure it as follows:

AZ: 2 central AZs
Specifications: Fixed; Application load balancing (HTTP/HTTPS) – Small I and Network load balancing (TCP/UDP) – Small I
Network Type: Public IPv4 network
EIP: New EIP
EIP Type: Dynamic BGP
Billed By: Bandwidth
Bandwidth: 6 Mbit/s

After a period of time, you found that the current specifications no longer met your service requirements and upgraded the specifications to Application load balancing (HTTP/HTTPS) – Small II and Network load balancing (TCP/UDP) – Small II at 09:00:00 on April 20, 2023. In this case, how much will the load balancer be billed in April?

If you bind an EIP to your load balancer, you will also be charged for the EIP and the bandwidth used by the EIP.

For details about EIP pricing, see Elastic IP Pricing Details.

Billing Analysis

In this example, you are billed by two usage periods: small I usage from April 18, 2023, 15:30:00 to April 20, 2023, 10:30:00, and small II usage from April 20, 2023, 10:30:00 to April 30, 2023, 23:59:59.

Pay-per-use billing

From April 18, 2023, 15:30:00 to April 20, 2023, 09:00:00, the small I load balancer was used for 41.5 hours, so the price would be calculated as shown in the following figure.

Figure 1 Total price for the small I load balancer

From April 20, 2023, 09:00:00 to April 30, 2023, 23:50:59, the small II load balancer was used for 255 hours, so the price is calculated as shown in the following figure.

Figure 2 Total price for the small II load balancer