If you create pay-by-data-transfer Internet Shared Bandwidth instances for the first time after 00:00 (UTC+8) on December 17, 2024, the billing of the instances is managed by Cloud Data Transfer (CDT).
CDT is a service that manages the billing of cloud services. CDT provides 200 GB of free Internet data transfers per month. After the free quota is exhausted, you are charged based on a tiered pricing model. The unit price decreases as the amount of data transfers increases. For more information about CDT billing rules and discounts, see Internet data transfers.
Effective time
00:00 (UTC +8) on December 17, 2024.
Change details
If you create pay-by-data-transfer Internet Shared Bandwidth instances for the first time after 00:00 (UTC+8) on December 17, 2024:
The billing of the instances is managed by CDT.
If your Internet Shared Bandwidth instance was created before 00:00 (UTC +8) on December 17, 2024:
The billing of the instance is managed by CDT beginning June 30, 2025 (UTC+8). For more information about the specific time, see announcements and updates on the Alibaba Cloud International site.
Before June 30, 2025 (UTC+8), your Internet Shared Bandwidth instance is billed based on the billing rules of Internet Shared Bandwidth. For more information, see Pay-by-dominant-data-transfer. You can also manually activate CDT to obtain a free quota on data transfers and use a tiered pricing model.
References
For more information about CDT, see What is CDT?
You can view the usage of Internet data transfer in the current month in the CDT console. You can also view the bills and usage of CDT in the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see Query bills and usage.