This topic describes the billing rules, expiration, overdue payments, and renewal of different editions of Database Autonomy Service (DAS).
Billing rules
The prices described in this topic are for reference only. The actual prices displayed on the DAS buy page prevail.
Pricing description
USD xx.xx per GB: Fees for traffic generated from using the log ingestion, log indexing, SQL Explorer, and cold query features are charged based on data amount.
USD xx.xx per GB-day: Fees for cold and hot storage are charged based on data amount and storage duration.
DAS Enterprise Edition V3
The billable items of DAS Enterprise Edition V3 are defined based on features. This makes billing more flexible and significantly reduces costs.
After you activate DAS Enterprise Edition V3, you are charged log traffic fees by default. Other fees are charged based on the usage of the corresponding features.
Data migration from DAS Enterprise Edition V1 or DAS Enterprise Edition V2 to DAS Enterprise Edition V3 is supported free of charge. Before the migration is complete, you are charged based on the source version. After the migration is complete, you are charged based on the destination version. For more information, see the "How do I migrate data between different versions of DAS Enterprise Edition?" section of the FAQ topic.
Billing of DAS Enterprise Edition V3
Alibaba Cloud public cloud
Billable item | Billing method | Unit price in the Chinese mainland | Unit price in the China (Hong Kong) region and regions outside China | Description |
Log traffic (default fee) | Pay-as-you-go | USD 0.04 per GB | USD 0.06 per GB | You are charged for the traffic consumed for collecting, transferring, and writing logs to storage on a pay-as-you-go basis. Logs can be stored in cold storage free of charge for an amount of time. For more information, see the description of the cold storage billable item. |
Log indexing | USD 0.04 per GB | USD 0.06 per GB | You are charged fees after you enable the log indexing feature. Log indexes are stored as hot data. DAS dynamically adjusts and optimizes indexes to ensure the data reading speed. Log indexes can be stored in hot storage free of charge for one day. | |
SQL Explorer | USD 0.0134 per GB | USD 0.02 per GB | You are charged for automatic data aggregation and analysis by using the SQL Explorer feature based on the log volume. | |
Hot storage | USD 0.00167 per GB-day | USD 0.0025 per GB-day | You are charged for hot storage based on the log volume and storage duration. Logs can be stored in hot storage free of charge for one day after they are written to hot storage. If cold storage is enabled, the logs are automatically dumped to cold storage free of charge after the specified hot storage duration ends. Logs can be stored in hot storage for up to seven days. | |
Cold storage (default fee) | USD 0.0005 per GB-day | USD 0.00075 per GB-day | You are charged for cold storage based on the log volume and storage duration.
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Cold query | USD 0.0025 per GB | USD 0.00375 per GB | You are charged for querying logs in cold storage offline based on the log volume. | |
Download (free of charge) | USD 0.067 per GB | USD 0.1 per GB | You can export and dump logs free of charge. These fees will be charged in the future. | |
Security audit | USD 0.08 per GB | USD 0.12 per GB | You are charged for the new version of the security audit feature based on the log volume. |
DAS Enterprise Edition V2
Alibaba Cloud public cloud
Billable item | Billing method | Unit price in the Chinese mainland, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and Indonesia (Jakarta) regions | Unit price in the China (Hong Kong) and Singapore regions | Description |
Storage | Pay-as-you-go |
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Data query | USD 0.029 per GB | USD 0.0435 per GB | You are charged for querying data that is stored in cold storage on a pay-as-you-go basis. |
DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0
You are charged subscription fees only for DAS Enterprise Edition V1.
Billable item | Billing method | Unit price | Description |
Subscription | Subscription | USD 6.2 per instance-month | You are charged based on the specified quota of DAS Enterprise Edition V1, which indicates the total number of database instances for which you can activate DAS Enterprise Edition V1. For example, you purchased DAS Enterprise Edition V1 with a quota of three instances and have activated DAS Enterprise Edition V1 for one database instance. The subscription fees for DAS Enterprise Edition V1 are calculated based on the following formula: Important You are charged subscription fees only for DAS Enterprise Edition V1. |
Storage for SQL Explorer data | Pay-as-you-go |
| Applicable regions: regions in the Chinese mainland, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and Indonesia (Jakarta). |
| Applicable regions: China (Hong Kong) and Singapore. |
DAS Cost-efficient Edition
Billable item | Billing method | Unit price | Description |
Basic plan | Subscription | USD 7.5714 per month | Up to 10 database instances can be connected to DAS Cost-efficient Edition. |
Medium plan | USD 21.4286 per month | Up to 50 database instances can be connected to DAS Cost-efficient Edition. | |
Advanced plan | USD 42.8571 per month | The number of database instances that can be connected to DAS Cost-efficient Edition is not limited. |
Expiration
After your subscription to DAS Cost-efficient Edition or DAS Enterprise Edition V1 expires, you can no longer use the related features.
Edition | Expiration condition | Impact of expiration |
DAS Enterprise Edition V1 | Your subscription expires and is not renewed. | The system automatically disables the features and clears related data of DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Cost-efficient Edition. You can no longer use the features of the corresponding DAS edition. Note
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DAS Cost-efficient Edition |
After your DAS Cost-efficient Edition or DAS Enterprise Edition V1 expires, you can still use the features of DAS Basic Edition. For more information about the features that are supported by DAS Basic Edition, see DAS editions and supported features.
Overdue payments
If the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account is insufficient, an overdue payment is generated for DAS Enterprise Edition. You can use subscription DAS Cost-efficient Edition as expected even if an overdue payment is generated.
DAS Enterprise Edition V3
Overdue period | Status of DAS Enterprise Edition V3 | Solution |
No more than 24 hours |
| Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V3 is available again and resumes collecting data. |
More than 24 hours |
| Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V3 is available again and resume collecting data. Important Historical data is cleared and cannot be restored. |
DAS Enterprise Edition V2
Overdue period | Status of DAS Enterprise Edition V2 | Solution |
No more than 24 hours |
| Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V2 is available again and resumes collecting data. |
More than 24 hours |
| Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V2 is available again and resume collecting data. Important Historical data is cleared and cannot be restored. |
DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0
Overdue period | Status of DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 | Solution |
No more than 1 hour | Services of DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 are not affected. | Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 are available again. |
More than 1 hour | Services of DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 are automatically stopped. DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 stop collecting data. Historical data is cleared. | Add funds to the account within which the overdue payments are generated. Then, DAS Enterprise Edition V1 and DAS Enterprise Edition V0 are available again and resume collecting data. Important Historical data is cleared and cannot be restored. |
Renewal policy
You are charged the following fees for using DAS Enterprise Edition V1: subscription fees and storage fees for SQL Explorer data. If you renew DAS Enterprise Edition V1, you extend the subscription period of DAS Enterprise Edition V1. You are charged the storage fees for SQL Explorer data on a pay-as-you-go basis. You need to only make sure that the balance of your Alibaba Cloud account is sufficient.
DAS Cost-efficient Edition uses the subscription billing method. If you renew DAS Cost-efficient Edition, you extend the subscription period of DAS Cost-efficient Edition.
DAS can be manually or automatically renewed to extend the subscription period. For more information, see Renewal management.
Deactivation
Before you deactivate DAS Enterprise Edition or DAS Cost-efficient Edition, read the relevant limits and usage notes. For more information, see Disable DAS Cost-efficient Edition and DAS Enterprise Edition.
After you deactivate DAS Enterprise Edition for a database instance, the SQL Explorer and Audit feature is disabled for the database instance, and all related data is cleared. If you want to only reduce the storage fees, you can reduce the storage duration of SQL Explorer and Audit data.
References
Enable and manage DAS Cost-efficient Edition and DAS Enterprise Edition
Disable DAS Cost-efficient Edition and DAS Enterprise Edition
Data migration between different versions of DAS Enterprise Edition is supported. For more information, see the "How do I migrate data between different versions of DAS Enterprise Edition?" section of the FAQ topic.