The fees of an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the Chinese Mainland Acceleration (CMA) mitigation plan consist of the subscription fee of the instance and the pay-as-you-go fee of the features that you enable for the instance. This topic describes the billable items, expiration, and overdue payments of Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instances of the CMA mitigation plan.
Billing overview
An Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan does not deliver protection capabilities. An Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan must be used together with an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the Insurance or Unlimited mitigation plan.
You can use an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan to reduce access latency for users in the Chinese mainland. If no attacks occur, an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan accelerates service access for users in the Chinese mainland. If your service is under attack, Anti-DDoS Proxy automatically switches traffic to the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the Insurance or Unlimited mitigation plan to mitigate the attacks. If no attacks occur, an Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan can use up to 100 Mbit/s of bandwidth to process service traffic.
Billable items
The prices of billable items that are provided in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices on the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) buy page shall prevail.
Unit price of an instance that uses the minimum specifications: USD 1,548 per month The following list describes the minimum specifications:
Clean bandwidth: 10 Mbit/s.
95th percentile burstable clean bandwidth: disabled.
If the minimum specifications do not meet your business requirements, you can upgrade the specifications and enable pay-as-you-go features.
Clean bandwidth: The maximum bandwidth for your workloads when no attack is launched. Price for every 10 Mbit/s of clean bandwidth increment: USD 1,548 per month.
95th percentile burstable clean bandwidth: Both the daily 95th percentile metering method and the monthly 95th percentile metering method are supported. The burstable clean bandwidth feature provides additional clean bandwidth for your instance. If spikes occur in your service traffic and the traffic exceeds the clean bandwidth of the instance during peak hours, the burstable clean bandwidth feature can be used to prevent access to your service from being limited. For more information, see Billing of the burstable clean bandwidth feature.
Instance expiration
Time period | Service traffic forwarding | Instance configuration |
Within 6 calendar days after the expiration date | You must renew the subscription of your Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan before the expiration date. After the instance expires, it stops accelerating service delivery. | Instance configurations are retained. |
From Day 7 after the expiration date to Day 14 after the expiration date | The instance no longer forwards service traffic. Warning If you no longer require Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) of the CMA mitigation plan, you must switch service traffic from the Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) instance of the CMA mitigation plan to the origin server before Day 7 after the expiration date. Otherwise, access to your service may be adversely affected. If you want to switch service traffic, make sure that the domain name of your website does not point to the CNAME assigned by Anti-DDoS Proxy. You must also make sure that your non-website service does not use an exclusive IP address of the instance. | Instance configurations are retained. |
From Day 15 after the expiration date | The instance no longer forwards service traffic. | The instance is released. Warning One month after all Anti-DDoS Proxy instances associated with your Alibaba Cloud account are released, the port forwarding rules and domain names added to Anti-DDoS Proxy are automatically deleted. If you have multiple Anti-DDoS Proxy instances, the one-month countdown starts when the last instance is released. |
Overdue payments
If the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account, including cash, vouchers, and coupons, is insufficient to settle an outstanding payment, your account has an overdue payment.
If your Alibaba Cloud account has an overdue payment, you must top up your account at the earliest opportunity to ensure that the balance of your account is sufficient. Otherwise, your pay-as-you-go service may become unavailable.
Renewal
You can manually renew an instance. You can also enable auto-renewal for the instance. For more information, see Renew an instance.
Refunds
After you purchase an instance, you cannot request a refund for the instance.
Bill query
You can query bills in the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see Overview of Monthly Bill.