Billing (Shared Load Balancers)

Billing Items

ELB supports load balancing over both public and private networks. Table 1 describes the billing items.

Bandwidth Billing Options

Shared load balancers are billed on a pay-per-use basis. Each load balancer on a public network has an EIP bound to receive requests from the Internet.

The bandwidth that will be used by the EIP is billed by traffic or fixed bandwidth:

• By traffic: You specify a maximum bandwidth and pay for the total outbound traffic. This is suitable for applications with predictable peaks and troughs in traffic.
• By bandwidth: You specify a maximum bandwidth and pay for the amount of time you use the bandwidth. This is ideal for applications that require stable bandwidth.

Changing the Bandwidth Configuration

You can change the bandwidth configuration, including its name, size, and billing option.

If you change the billing option to By bandwidth, you will be charged for the duration you use the bandwidth. If you change the billing option to By traffic, you will be charged for the total outbound traffic.