You are charged for the Alibaba Cloud services that are used by your Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters.
Alibaba Cloud services related to ACK
The following table lists the Alibaba Cloud services that are related to ACK managed clusters and ACK dedicated clusters and describes the billing of these services.
The Alibaba Cloud services in the following table are for reference only. The Alibaba Cloud services that you activate and use shall prevail. You can log on to Expenses and Costs and click in the left-side navigation pane to view billing details.
Alibaba Cloud service | Activation | Description | Subscription | Resource plan | Billing description |
Elastic Compute Service (ECS) | Required | This service is used to create cluster nodes. You need to pay for the disks of ECS instances if you use the disks to store data and pay for disk snapshots if you use the application backup feature. For more information, see What is ECS?. | Supported | Not supported | |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Required | This service can be used to build networks and create routing rules for clusters. For more information, see What is a VPC? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Classic Load Balancer (CLB) | Required | This service allows you to enable load balancing for ACK clusters. For more information, see What is CLB? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Auto Scaling | Required | This service enables ACK clusters to support auto scaling and automatically creates nodes during scale-out activities. For more information, see What is Auto Scaling? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Container Registry | Recommended | This service ensures the security of cloud-native applications that are fully managed on the cloud and allows you to manage the lifecycle of these applications. For more information, see What is Container Registry? | Supported Note Container Registry Enterprise Edition instances support only the subscription billing method. For more information, see Billing of Container Registry Enterprise Edition instances. | Not supported | |
Elastic IP Address (EIP) | Recommended | This service enables Internet access for cloud resources. For more information, see What is EIP? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Elastic Container Instance | Recommended | This service is used to deploy ACK clusters. For more information, see What is Elastic Container Instance? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Service Mesh (ASM) | Recommended | This service allows you to manage the network traffic of applications that are deployed across multiple ACK clusters by using service meshes. For more information, see What is ASM? | Not supported | Supported | |
Simple Log Service | Recommended | This service allows you to collect and query the log data of cluster components and applications. For more information, see What is Simple Log Service? | Not supported | Supported Note For more information about how to purchase resource plans that best suit your business, see Purchase a resource plan. | |
CloudMonitor | Recommended | This service allows you to monitor the status of nodes and applications in ACK clusters. For more information, see What is CloudMonitor? | Not supported | Supported Note For more information about how to purchase resource plans that best suit your business, see Overview. | |
Managed Service for Prometheus | Recommended | This service is used to monitor ACK clusters and generate alerts when exceptions are detected. For more information, see What is Managed Service for Prometheus? | Supported | Not supported | |
Application Load Balancer (ALB) | Recommended | This service allows you to create ALB Ingresses to enable load balancing for ACK clusters. By default, the ALB instance created by an ACK cluster uses the pay-as-you-go billing method. For more information, see What is ALB? | Not supported | Supported | |
Microservices Engine (MSE) | Recommended | This service allows you to create MSE ingress gateways based on MSE cloud-native gateways to enable load balancing for ACK clusters. By default, the MSE ingress gateway created by an ACK cluster uses the pay-as-you-go billing method. You also need to pay for other relevant features that are used after MSE is integrated with your ACK cluster. | Supported | Not supported | |
Cloud Parallel File Storage (CPFS) | Recommended | This service allows you to create and use volumes in ACK clusters. | Not supported | Supported | N/A |
NAT Gateway | Optional | This service enables Internet access for clusters and allows clusters to pull images over the Internet. For more information, see What is NAT Gateway? | Not supported | Supported Note For more information about how to purchase resource plans that best suit your business, see NAT resource plans. | |
Security Center (SAS) | Optional | This service allows you to monitor the security events of application runtimes in ACK clusters and generate alerts when exceptions are detected. For more information, see What is Security Center? | Not supported | Not supported | |
File Storage NAS (NAS) | Optional | This service allows you to store application data in NAS file systems. For more information, see What is NAS? | Not supported | Supported Note For more information about how to purchase resource plans that best suit your business, see Purchase resource plans. | Billing of General-purpose NAS file systems and Billing of Extreme NAS file systems |
Object Storage Service (OSS) | Optional | This service allows you to store application data in OSS buckets. For more information, see What is OSS? | Not supported | Supported Note For more information about how to purchase resource plans that best suit your business, see Purchase resource plans. | |
Key Management Service (KMS) | Optional | This service is used to manage application secrets and enable disk encryption for ACK Pro clusters. For more information, see What is KMS? | Not supported | Not supported | |
Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | Optional | This service is intended for resolving private domain names in VPCs. You can use this service to resolve the domain names of applications in ACK clusters. For more information, see What is Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone? | Not supported | Not supported |