Overview

Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) supports unified billing for the data transfers that are incurred by different Alibaba Cloud products such as Elastic IP Address (EIP), EIP Bandwidth Plan, IPv6 gateway, Classic Load Balancer (CLB), Anycast EIP, Global Accelerator (GA), Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN), and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering connection. • CDT supports tiered pricing for Internet data transfers. The unit price decreases as the amount of used data transfers increases. • CDT supports pay-by-data-transfer for cross-region data transfers. In traffic burst scenarios, this billing method can help you reduce costs of cross-region data transfers. • CDT provides unified trend reports and bills for data transfers. This allows you to perform budget planning and reconciliation for the data transfers.

Features

Support for Multiple Alibaba Cloud Products and Flexible Billing

Support for Different Alibaba Cloud Products CDT supports unified tiered pricing for the Internet data transfers that are incurred by Alibaba Cloud products such as EIP, EIP Bandwidth Plan, CLB, IPv6 gateway, Anycast EIP, GA, CEN, and VPC peering connection. The accumulated amount of data transfers is more likely to reach a higher tier, thereby reducing unit prices. Pay-By-Data-Transfer CDT supports all products that provide access to the Internet and all products that provide cross-region access in pay-by-data-transfer billing mode. Tiered Pricing CDT supports tiered pricing for the Internet data transfers that are incurred by products that provide access to the Internet. The unit price decreases as the amount of used data transfers increases.

Support for Financial Operations (FinOps)

Simple Configurations You can activate CDT for all the supported Alibaba Cloud products in the regions where CDT is available with a few clicks. This frees you from complex configurations. CDT automatically bills the Alibaba Cloud products that are newly supported after the activation. On-Demand Purchase to Save Costs CDT bills data transfers based on usage. This frees you from bandwidth planning and avoids wasting resources. Unified Billing and Bill Splitting CDT provides unified billing of data transfers and bill splitting by tag for different Alibaba Cloud products. This improves the collaboration efficiency of business personnel, IT personnel, and financial personnel.

Benefits

Cost Effectiveness

CDT supports tiered pricing for products that provide access to the Internet. The unit price decreases as the amount of used data transfers increases.

Flexible Billing

CDT supports pay-by-data-transfer for different products that provide cross-region access. This frees you from reserving bandwidths for the products and helps you reduce costs in traffic burst scenarios.

Support for Different Products

CDT supports billing for products that provide access to the Internet such as EIP and CLB and products that provide cross-region access such as CEN and GA.

FinOps

CDT provides unified billing of data transfers and bill splitting by tag for different Alibaba Cloud products. This improves the collaboration efficiency of business personnel, IT personnel, and financial personnel.