Starting October 18, 2022, the public preview of the backup download feature for ApsaraDB RDS instances that use cloud disks ends. If you use the feature for your RDS instance, you are charged for Internet traffic and backup set conversion.
Commercial release dates and regions
Effective date | Involved instance | Region |
October 18, 2022 | ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instances on RDS High-availability Edition with cloud disks | China (Guangzhou), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hangzhou), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, US (Silicon Valley), and US (Virginia) |
ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL instances on RDS High-availability Edition with cloud disks | Indonesia (Jakarta), Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) |
The feature will be available in other regions soon.
Billing rules
If you use the backup download feature of an RDS instance that uses cloud disks, you are charged for the Internet traffic and backup set conversion.
Traffic fees
Downloads over an internal network: You are not charged for the traffic that you consume.
Downloads over the Internet: After the free quota of 500 GB per instance-month is exhausted, you are charged for the excess traffic that you consume based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. Fees are deducted from your account on a daily basis. For more information, see Network traffic fees.
When you start a task to download the snapshot backup file of an RDS instance that uses cloud disks, the system converts the backup file and generates a download task. If the task is not complete, the download URL cannot be obtained. In this case, you are not charged for Internet traffic. In-progress tasks and failed tasks are considered not complete. After the task is complete, you are charged for the traffic generated when you download the backup file by using the URL.
When you download the physical backup file of an RDS instance that uses local disks, the system does not convert the backup file and directly provides you with the download URL. You are charged for the traffic generated when you download the backup file by using the URL.
To view the volume of traffic that you consumed to download backup files over the Internet, you can log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console, find your RDS instance, and then click the ID of the instance to go to the Basic Information page of the RDS instance. Then, you can view the Backup Downloads parameter in the Usage Statistics section of the page.
We recommend that you purchase a subscription network plan to offset the fee for the Internet traffic that is used to download the backup files. A large capacity of a network plan indicates a high discount. For more information, see Use network plans.
Backup set conversion fee
If you use the advanced download feature, the snapshot backup files are converted into CSV files with or without headers, SQL, or Parquet files, and you are charged for conversions. No free quota is provided for backup set conversion. The following table describes the unit prices for backup set conversion in different regions.
Region | Unit price (USD per GB) |
Public cloud | 0.03125 |
When you start a task to download the snapshot backup file of an RDS instance that uses cloud disks, the system generates a task to convert the backup file. If the conversion task fails, you are not charged for backup set conversion.
Entry points
Log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console and go to the instance details page of your RDS instance. In the left-side navigation pane of the instance details page, click Backup and Restoration. On the Data Backup tab of the page that appears, click Download Instance Backup in the Actions column. You can create an advanced download task by point in time or backup set. You can set the Download Destination parameter to URL or directly upload the downloaded data to your Object Storage Service (OSS) bucket to facilitate data analysis and offline archiving. For more information, see the following topics:
ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL: Download backup files
ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL: Download backup files