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    Cloud Data Transfer:[20240408] Increase in the quota of free Internet data transfers provided by CDT from 20 GB/month to 200 GB/month

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    Cloud Data Transfer:[20240408] Increase in the quota of free Internet data transfers provided by CDT from 20 GB/month to 200 GB/month

    Last Updated:Jul 24, 2024

    Dear Alibaba Cloud users, starting from 15:00 on April 8, 2024, the quota of free Internet data transfers provided by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) is increased from 20 GB/month to 200 GB/month. This adjustment is applicable to Internet data transfers over BGP (Multi-ISP) lines generated by pay-by-data-transfer instances of nine Alibaba Cloud products.

    Details of free quota

    Item

    Free quota and applicable region

    Line type

    Applicable product

    Internet data transfers provided by CDT

    The free quota is 200 GB/month, which contains two parts:

    • 20 GB/month in global regions (including the Chinese mainland)

    • 180 GB/month in regions outside the Chinese mainland

    BGP (Multi-ISP) line

    Internet data transfers generated by pay-by-data-transfer instances of the following nine Alibaba Cloud products:

    • Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

    • Elastic IP Address (EIP)

    • Function Compute

    • Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

    • Internet Shared Bandwidth

    • IPv6 Internet bandwidth

    • Anycast EIP

    • Global Accelerator (GA)

    • Cloud-native API Gateway

    How to obtain a free quota

    • Users who did not activate CDT before 15:00 on April 8, 2024: After you activate CDT, you can obtain the quota of 200 GB/month for free Internet data transfers.

    • Users who have activated CDT before 15:00 on April 8, 2024: The quota of free Internet data transfers is automatically upgraded from 20 GB/month to 200 GB/month.

    How to use a free quota

    Log on to the CDT console and click Activate Now to activate CDT as prompted. For more information, see Activate CDT.

    Note

    • After CDT is activated and used to bill data transfers for Alibaba Cloud products, 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 products. 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.

    • The query of bills for free Internet data transfers is supported. In the bills for Internet data transfers in CDT, if you find that an instance has data transfers with tier 0 or find data transfers with a unit price of 0, such data transfers enjoy the benefit of free Internet data transfers. Internet data transfers exceeding the free quota are billed according to the tiered unit prices in CDT.

      For more information about how to query bills, see Query bills and usage.