Traffic is defined as the cumulative data flow that is generated when you access Object Storage Service (OSS). Traffic includes outbound traffic over the Internet, outbound traffic over the internal network, inbound traffic over the Internet, inbound traffic over the internal network, origin traffic, and cross-region replication (CRR) traffic. You are charged for actual traffic that is generated when you access OSS.
This topic describes the billable items and billing methods of OSS. For more information, visit the OSS pricing page.
Billable items
You are not charged for the traffic that is generated by requests for which HTTP status code 4xx or 5xx is returned.
If you want requesters instead of the bucket owner to pay fees for outbound traffic over the Internet and origin traffic generated by requests to the bucket, you can enable pay-by-requester for the bucket. For more information, see Enable pay-by-requester.
Outbound traffic plans cannot be used to offset fees for outbound traffic over the Internet from a pay-by-requester bucket.
Billable item | Billing rule | Billing cycle | Billing method |
Outbound traffic over the Internet (NetworkOut) | Traffic that is generated when data is transferred from OSS to the client over the Internet. | You are billed on an hourly basis. Bills are generally generated after a billing cycle ends. The time when bills are generated is determined by the system. |
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Inbound traffic over the Internet | Traffic that is generated when data is transferred from the client to OSS over the Internet. | Free of charge. | |
Outbound traffic over the internal network | Traffic that is generated when data is transferred from OSS to the client over the internal network. For more information about how to use internal endpoints, see Access OSS over the internal network. | Free of charge. | |
Inbound traffic over the internal network | Traffic that is generated when data is transferred from the client to OSS over the internal network. | Free of charge. | |
Origin traffic (CdnOut) | Traffic that is generated when data is transferred from OSS to Alibaba Cloud CDN points of presence (POPs). |
Note If you use both OSS and Alibaba Cloud CDN, the public endpoints of OSS are used. In this case, data is transferred over the Internet by default. | |
CRR traffic (ReplicationDatasize) | Outbound traffic that is generated when you use CRR to synchronize data from a source bucket to a destination bucket. |
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References
For more information about how to query OSS billing data generated on an hourly basis, see Query OSS billing data generated on an hourly basis.
For more information about the billing details of the billable items, see Query bills.