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Data Transfer Plan:What is a data transfer plan?

Last Updated:Nov 13, 2024

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.

  • ECS instances in virtual private clouds (VPCs)

  • Secondary elastic network interfaces (ENIs)

  • Server Load Balancer (SLB) instances which include

    • Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instances in VPCs

    • Application Load Balancer (ALB) instances

    • Network Load Balancer (NLB) instances

  • NAT gateways

  • High-availability virtual IP addresses (HAVIPs)

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)