Serverless Kubernetes clusters are classified into ACK Serverless Pro clusters and ACK Serverless Basic clusters. The billable items and billing rules vary based on the type of the ACK Serverless cluster. This topic describes the billing rules of ACK Serverless Pro clusters and ACK Serverless Basic clusters.
Billing rules of ACK Serverless Pro clusters
Billable items
Cluster management fee
The cluster management feature is in public preview and free of charge.
Cloud service fee
Cloud service fees are incurred based on the services used by your ACK Serverless cluster, in accordance with the respective billing rules. If your ACK Serverless cluster does not use any cloud services, no cloud service fees are charged.
Cloud service | Activation | Description | Subscription | Resource plan | Billing rule |
Elastic Container Instance | Required | This service is used to host workloads in ACK Serverless clusters. For more information, see What is Elastic Container Instance?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Required | This service is used to build networks and create routing rules for clusters . For more information, see What is a VPC?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Server Load Balancer (SLB) | Required | This service allows you to enable load balancing for clusters . For more information, see What is CLB? and What is ALB?. |
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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 | |
Log Service | Recommended | This service is used to collect and query the log data of cluster components and applications. For more information, see What is Log Service?. | Not supported | Supported | |
Elastic IP Address (EIP) | Optional | This service enables Internet access for cloud resources. For more information, see Elastic IP Address. | Not supported | Not supported | |
NAT Gateway | Optional | This service enables clusters to communicate with the Internet and pull images over the Internet. For more information, see What is NAT Gateway?. | Not supported | 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 | |
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 | |
Key Management Service (KMS) | Optional | This service allows you to manage application Secrets and encrypt Secrets for ACK Serverless Pro clusters. For more information, see What is Key Management Service?. | Not supported | Not supported | |
Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone | Optional | Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone is a DNS resolution service for private domain names within VPCs. For more information, see What is PrivateZone?. | Not supported | Not supported |
Billing rules of ACK Serverless Basic clusters
You are charged only for the cloud services that are used by ACK Serverless Basic clusters. For more information about the billing rules of Alibaba Cloud services, see Cloud service fee.