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.
Background information
Before you purchase data transfer plans, take note of the following rules:
Each Alibaba Cloud account can own up to 200 valid data transfer plans. You cannot increase the quota. When you purchase data transfer plans, specify the specifications of the data transfer plans based on your business requirements.
When you purchase data transfer plans, you must specify the area where the data transfer plans are applied. Each area consists of different regions.
Data transfer plans can be used to offset data transfer that is generated by multiple cloud services. The cloud services are billed on a pay-by-data-transfer basis.
Purchase data transfer plans
Go to the buy page of data transfer plans.
On the buy page, specify the required parameters of data transfer plans described in the following table, click Buy Now, and then complete the payment.
Parameter
Description
Traffic Package Size
Specify the specification of the data transfer plans.
The specification that you can select depends on the subscription duration of the data transfer plans. The actual price displayed on the buy page shall prevail.
Plan
Specify the area to which the data transfer plans are applied. Valid values:
China mainland: The data transfer plans are applied to regions within the Chinese mainland.
Hong Kong: The data transfer plans are applied to the China (Hong Kong) region.
Overseas: The data transfer plans are applied to regions outside China.
Expiry Date
Specify the subscription duration of the data transfer plans. Valid values:
1Month
1Year
You cannot request a refund for an expired data transfer plan. After a data transfer plan expires, the remaining amount of data transfer is cleared and cannot be transferred to other data transfer plans.
Quantity
Specify the number of data transfer plans that you want to purchase.
References
For more information about how to query the usage details of data transfer plans, see Query bills and resource usage.