Data transfer plans are easy to use and cost-effective. A data transfer plan immediately takes effect after you complete the payment. After a data transfer plan takes effect, it automatically offsets data transfer that is generated by certain cloud services until the data transfer plan is used up or expires. The services are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.
Supported services and data transfer types
Supported service | Data transfer type | Description |
Elastic Compute Service (ECS) | IPv4 data transfer | IPv4 data transfer that is generated by the static public IP addresses of ECS instances. The IP addresses are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis. |
Elastic IP Address (EIP) | IPv4 data transfer that is generated by EIPs when the EIPs are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis and are associated with cloud resources described in the following section. Data transfer plans do not apply to IPv4 data transfer that is generated by EIPs of BGP (Multi-ISP) Pro.
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CLB | IPv4 data transfer that is generated by the public IP addresses of CLB instances. The IP addresses are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis. | |
Internet Shared Bandwidth | IPv4 data transfer that is generated by Internet Shared Bandwidth instances. The Internet Shared Bandwidth instances are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis. | |
IPv6 Gateway | IPv6 data transfer | IPv6 data transfer that is generated by IPv6 Internet bandwidth. The IPv6 Internet bandwidth is billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis. |
Benefits
Cost-effectiveness
Data transfer plans can reduce the cost of resource usage in your services.
Wide service scope
Data transfer plans can be used to offset data transfer that is generated by instances such as ECS instances, EIPs, CLB instances, and Internet Shared Bandwidth instances. These instances are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis. For more information about services and data transfer types that are supported by data transfer plans, see the Supported services and data transfer types section of this topic.
Ease of use
After you purchase a data transfer plan, it automatically offsets data transfer that is generated by the corresponding services in multiple regions. You do not need to configure the data transfer plan. For more information, see Purchase data transfer plans.
Centralized management
You can easily learn the overall Internet data transfer based on the usage of data transfer plans.
Supported areas
A data transfer plan applies to one area that consists of one or more regions. The following table describes the areas and regions that support data transfer plans.
Area | Region |
Chinese mainland | China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), and China (Nanjing - Local Region) |
Hong Kong (China) | China (Hong Kong) |
Outside China | US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), Germany (Frankfurt), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Philippines (Manila), UK (London), Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Tokyo), Thailand (Bangkok), and South Korea (Seoul) |