Activate CDT and use CDT to bill data transfers incurred by Alibaba Cloud services such as ECS - Cloud Data Transfer

This topic describes how to activate Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) and upgrade the billing mode to billing in CDT to provide statistics and bills for data transfers in a centralized manner.

Usage notes

Take note of the following items before you use CDT:

CDT activation is not subject to any restrictions.
CDT is an out-of-the-box service and does not involve resource creation. Therefore, you are not charged for the activation or use of the CDT service. The fees that are displayed in CDT bills are billed by CDT and incurred when other Alibaba Cloud services consume data transfer resources. For more information about services that can be billed by CDT, see Supported cloud services.
After you activate CDT and use CDT to bill data transfers for Alibaba Cloud services, all existing and new pay-by-data-transfer instances are automatically billed in CDT in a centralized manner, and pay-by-bandwidth instances continue to be billed in the Alibaba Cloud services. You can choose Expenses > User Center to go to the Expenses and Costs console and click Bill Details to view the billing data in CDT.
Check whether you have a pay-by-data-transfer instance. If you only activate CDT but do not have a pay-by-data-transfer instance, you do not enjoy the data transfer benefits of CDT.
After you activate CDT, you can obtain a quota of 200 GB free Internet data transfers per month. Among the 200 GB of free Internet data transfers, 20 GB can be used in global regions (including regions in the Chinese mainland) and the other 180 GB can be used only in regions outside the Chinese mainland.

Procedure

Log on to the CDT console.
Click Activate Now. In the dialog box that appears, read the message and the terms of service carefully, select I have read and agree to the Alibaba Cloud International Website Product Terms of Service, and then click Activate.
After you activate CDT, the data transfers incurred by the following services are automatically billed by CDT. Upgraded (Default) is displayed in the Upgrade Status column of these services. For the existing instances of these services, no additional operations are required. The billing mode is automatically upgraded to billing in CDT for the instances. If no relevant instances are created, you can create an instance by referring to the corresponding topic.
- Function Compute Quickly create a function
- Global Accelerator Create and manage standard GA instances
- Anycast Elastic IP Address (EIP): Purchase and manage Anycast EIPs
- Cloud Enterprise Network Create an inter-region connection
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering connection: Create and manage a VPC peering connection
- Express Connect Router (ECR): Create an ECR
Optional. In the service list, click Upgrade in the Actions column of a product whose Upgrade Status is Not Upgraded based on your business requirements.
In the Activate CDT and Upgrade to CDT Billing Mode dialog box, read the message and the terms of service carefully, select I have read and agree to the Alibaba Cloud International Website Product Terms of Service, and then click OK.
Important
After you upgrade to be billed by CDT, you cannot switch back.
After the upgrade is complete, the Upgrade Status of the service changes to Upgraded. CDT is used to bill the Internet data transfers or cross-region data transfers of the new and existing pay-by-data-transfer instances of the service. If no relevant instances are created, you can create an instance by referring to the corresponding topic.
- Elastic Compute Service: Create an instance on the Custom Launch tab
- Elastic IP Address Apply for an EIP
- Classic Load Balancer (CLB): Create and manage a CLB instance
- IPv6 Gateway Create and manage an IPv6 gateway
- Internet Shared Bandwidth Create an Internet Shared Bandwidth instance

Changes in bills after CDT is activated

After CDT is activated, all existing and new pay-by-data-transfer instances of services mentioned in the preceding section are automatically billed in CDT in a centralized manner, and pay-by-bandwidth instances are still billed in the original Alibaba Cloud services. For some services, you need to manually upgrade their billing mode to billing in CDT. You can view the billing details on the Bill Details page in the Expenses and Costs console.

Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Bills > Bill Details.
On the Bill Details page, click the Billing Details tab.
In the Product Details field of the Billing Details tab, select cloud data transfer-internet or Cloud Data Transfer - Inter Region to view the billing details of Internet data transfers or cross-region data transfers in CDT.

For more information about the fields in CDT bills, see Query bills and usage.

References

After you use CDT to bill the data transfers of Alibaba Cloud products, you can split bills by tag. For more information, see Use CDT to split bills by tag.