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Explanation of service billing

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Compute

There are two billing methods on this service: pay as you go billing and monthly billing (in the case of instances reservation (RI)).

Pay As You Go billing allows more flexibility. ECS is billed by the minute rounded up to the nearest hour on a monthly basis. In the event that an instance is billed more than 650 hours in a month, the remaining hours of the month are not billed.
This billing starts from the moment it is provisioned and as long as it remains switched on. When a ECS in pay as you go is stopped, it is not billed (computing resources: vCPU and memory). However, the resources associated with the ECS, such as EVS disks (systems and data) and the public IP address are still billed. However, there are some ECS templates that have one or more local data disks (e.g. d1, d2, p2 families). For the latter, billing continues until the ECS instance is deleted.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
Usages
[Elastic Cloud Server] c1.large 1 300,00 Heures 0,0839 20,00 109,07
[Elastic Cloud Server] c2.2xlarge 1 950,00 Heures 0,3366 20,00 656,37

 

In the example above:

The unit price of a c1.large is 0.0839 € excl. taxes.

The client used 1300 hours.

The number of hours of a full month is capped at 650 hours.

The price of a month’s use of an ECS c1.large is 54.54€ excl. taxes (see the price catalogue).

The customer used two c1.large for this month (two instances at 650 hours = 1300 hours). In pay as you go billing, the ECS are grouped by type of template. There can therefore be several c1.large on the same usage line.

The Reserved mode is called reserved instances. It corresponds to a monthly basis throughout the duration of the commitment.  This billing method offers a higher discount than pay as you go and is recommended for long-term users. 

In this invoicing mode, the customer has the choice to order Reserved Instances over a commitment period of 1, 2 or 3 years. The longer the duration of your subscription, the greater the discount compared to Pay As You Go pricing. This reservation applies to a type of instance (template) and is not linked to a particular instance. It is for example possible to delete and recreate an instance or to change its operating system (OS). 

Note: If you subscribe to two t2.micro instances: one in Pay As You Go billing mode and one in Reserved Instance billing mode, we will take into account the t2.micro instance with the highest usage in the reserved instance billing mode. This allows you to benefit from the discount on the instance with the most important use.

The customer can also choose between a subscription without upfront or with an upfront. Subscription with upfront allows you to benefit from a discount:

Without upfront: the customer has the possibility to choose a reserved instance without upfront for a commitment period of only one year. He will pay the same monthly price each month for the duration of the contract.

With upfront: the customer also has the possibility to choose with an upfront over all commitment periods (1, 2 or 3 years). The customer will receive on his first invoice an initial cost equivalent to the upfront and the monthly cost of the ECS.  The upfront generally corresponds to 50% of the total cost of the reserved instance (over the entire duration of the engagement), so it reduces the cost of the instance on a monthly basis over the year.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
Abonnements
[Elastic Cloud Server] FE1707-1804-005 – Reservation s1.xlarge 1 year without upfront – monthly fee 1,00 Unité 95,9300 20,00 95,93
[Elastic Cloud Server] FE1707-1804-006 – Reservation s1.xlarge 1 year without upfront – monthly fee 1,00 Unité 95,9300 20,00 95,93
[Elastic Cloud Server] FE1707-1804-007 – Reservation c2.large 1 year without upfront – monthly fee 1,00 Unité 43,8600 20,00 43,86


In the example above:

The unit price of an s1.xlarge is 95.93 € excl. taxes/month.

If the customer has ordered several Reserved Instances of the same size, he will have one line per reserved instance.
In this invoice, the customer has two Reserved Instances s1.xlarge with one-year commitment without upfront.

To learn more about reserved instances click here, and for flexible instances click here.

It is possible to provision Bare Metal servers in a few minutes on the technical console within the limits of available resources. In case of insufficient stock, a provisioning time of up to 4 months may apply. Billing for this service is monthly. For the first month, the BMS service will be invoiced on a pro rata basis from the day the service is activated until the end of the month.

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Bare Metal Server] physical.o2.medium 4,00 Unité*Mois 1 340,0000 20,00 5 360,00

 

In the previous example:
The unit price of a BMS o2.medium server is 1340€ excl. taxes/month.
The client used 4 BMS o2.medium servers during this month.

It is possible to provision Dedicated Cloud in a few minutes on the technical console within the limits of available resources. In case of insufficient stock, a provisioning time of up to 4 months may apply. Dedicated Cloud services are reserved for a minimum of one year. Cloud servers use system and data disks based on elastic volume service (EVS). However, it is possible to combine DeC computing services (dedicated hypervisors) with the Dedicated Storage Service (DSS).

The Cloud Container Engine service is billed on a per-use basis for the cluster in addition to the Flexible Engine resources provided by the user (ECS, EVS, SFS…). The price of the Cloud Container Engine depends on the type of cluster provisioned (cluster for virtual machines or for baremetal servers), the type of availability chosen (standard or high availability) and the maximum number of nodes (ECS or BMS) that can be provisioned in the cluster (50, 100, 200 nodes).

In the technical console, you select the type, availability mode and capacity of the cluster, and then billing is calculated from the time the cluster is created until it is deleted (rounded to the minute). It is also possible to put the cluster in hibernation in order to suspend this billing. It is recommended that you delete the cluster when it does not contain any nodes in operation to avoid unnecessary billing.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Cloud Container Engine] Virtual Machines cluster – High Availability – 50 nodes (Heures) 1 488 0,0300 44,64 20,00 53,57


In the example above:

The cluster is of the virtual machine type. The availability is high.
The capacity of the cluster is 50 nodes. The hourly price for this type of cluster is 0.0300€ excl. taxes/min.
The client used his cluster for 1488 minutes.

We offer instances with or without OS license. These licenses are billed on a pay-per-use basis and pricing depends on the associated operating system (OS) and the type of instance chosen. The granularity of this service is per hour of license use.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[OS Licences for ECS] c2.2xlarge (Windows) 743,00 Hours 0,3009 20,00 223,56


In the example above:

For the instance c2.2xlarge, the price of the Windows OS is 0.3009€ excl. taxes/h.
The customer used his license for 743 hours.

It is possible to provision Dedicated Hosts in a few minutes on the technical console within the limits of available resources. In case of insufficient stock, a provisioning time of up to 4 months may apply. This service is billed monthly. For the first month, the DeH service will be billed on a pro-rata basis from the day the service is activated until the end of the month. When using a reserved DeH instance, the reserved rate applies the month following the subscription for the ordered duration.

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl Vat Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Dedicated Host] c6_pro server 2,00 Unit*Month           2402,60 € 20,00 4805,20 €

 

In the previous example :
The unit price of a DeH c6_pro server is 2402,60 € HT/month.
The customer has used 2 DeH c6_pro servers during this month.

Database

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[Elastic Cloud Servec] s1.2xlarge (Hour) 469,220466 0,3733 175,16 35,03 210,19
[Relational Database Service] s1.2xlarge (MSSql) (hour) 469,240725 0,2318 108,77 21,75 130,52
[OS Licences for ECS] s1.2xlarge (Windows for MS SQL) (hour) 469,222344 0,2739 128,52 25,70 154,22
[Server License For RDS] xlarge (Microsoft SQL Server Standard) (Unit/Month) 4 298,8700 1159,48 231,90 1391,38

 

The RDS price is composed of several billing units. The RDS service is based on standard ECS resources, so the billing is detailed as follows:

By choosing the primary/standby mode two instances are created, so the price is doubled. 

The prices displayed for RDS on the online pricelist (https://cloud.orange-business.com/nos-tarifs/relational-database-service/ columns “€/hour on top of Linux Prices” or “€/month on top of Linux Prices”) include the last three billing units above (RDS service cost, Windows license cost and Microsoft license cost).

DDS service billing is composed of three elements:

There are three types of DDS nodes composed of one or more ECS:

  • Mongos (1 ECS)
  • Shard (3 ECS)
  • Config (3 ECS)

 

The ” HISTO ” boxes do not have a load label or valuation, but there are lines ” Document Database Service ” / ” dds.mongodb.c6.large.2 ” with a load label ” c6.large.2 (MongoDB) ” which are the aggregation of all existing HISTO lines (all DDS clusters deployed in a project).

Item Invoiced Quantity Unit Price per Unit/basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[Elastic Cloud Server] c6.large.2 (Hour) 11*650= 7150 0,0479 342,48 68,50 410,98
[Document Database Service] c6.large.2 (MongoDB) (hour) 744*5= 3720 0,0479 178,18 35,64 213,82
[Elastic Volume Service] Performant DDS Block Storage Config Mode (Go/month) 20 0,2880 5,76 1,152 6,91
[Elastic Volume Service] Performant DDS Block Storage Repset Mode (Go/month) 10 0,2880 2,80 0,56 3,36
[Elastic Volume Service] Performant DDS Block Storage Shard Mode (Go/month) 100 0,2880 28,8 5,76 34,56

This is an example of the billing of the DDS service, the instances are billed at least. In this case, the customer used 11 ECS instances during the month for a total of 7150 hours.

The customer also has a MongoDB equivalent of 5 instances over the month, with a total of 3720 hours.

For the EVS instances used in the DDS service. The service is billed by usage in GB/month.

Pricing for the Distributed Cache Service depends on the specification and type of instance chosen, the version and type of database engine (Redis or Memcache) and the number of replicas. All available options are listed on our public pricing page:

Description Quantity Unit price Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[Distributed Cache Service] Redis Master/Standby – cache.m1.medium (Hour) 744 0,0680 50,59 20% 60,71
[Distributed Cache Service] Redis Master/Standby 2 Replicas – redis.ha.xu1.tiny.r2.128 (hour) 744 0,0043 3,20 20% 3,84

 

Here is an example for two DCS instances, the specifications (engine, instances, type, replicas) are indicated in the load label column. The service is billed on a per-use basis in €/hour with a per-minute granularity.

The DMS for Kafka service is billed according to the number of hours of use and the bandwidth provisioned, which can be configured between 100 and 1200 MB/s.

The different configurations and our public prices are available at the following address: https://cloud.orange-business.com/offres/infrastructure-iaas/flexible-engine/distribute-message-service/

Description Quantity Unit price Amount before tax VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[DMS for Kafka] Bandwidth – 600 MB/s (Hour) 100 2,0693 206,93 20% 248,32

Storage

The invoicing of the Elastic Volume Service depends on the chosen storage class: Standard Block Storage or Performing Block Storage.

The Elastic Volume service is calculated on an hourly basis in GB per hour. Billing is calculated at the granularity of GB per hour of reserved block storage. The monthly amount is calculated on the basis of 730 hours per month.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Elastic Volume Service] Performant Block Storage 25 612,68 Go*Mois 0,0960 20,00 2 458,81
Elastic Volume Service] Standard Block Storage – More than 20 Go 71 232,54 Go*Mois 0,0430 20,00 3 062,99


In the example above:

The unit price of the EVS on Standard Block Storage is 0.043€ excl. taxes/GB/Month
The customer used 71232.54GB of storage.
The unit price of the EVS on the Performant Block Storage is 0.096€ excl. taxes/GB/Month
The customer used 25612.68GB of storage.

The Scalable File service is billed according to the class chosen and on an hourly basis in GB per hour. The monthly amount is calculated on the basis of 730 hours per month.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Scalable File Service] SFS – SATA 171,78 Go*Mois 0,1610 20,00 27,65


In the previous example:

The customer shared 171.78GB of file size over the month.
The FSS service is charged €0.161 excluding VAT/GB per month.

The File and Applicative Backup service is billed according to the volume of data and files backed up and the storage location.

Regarding the storage location, if the backed up volume is hosted on a Flexible Engine server then the Object Storage Service will be billed additionally.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[File Application Backup] FAB – Object Storage Back-End – 5 Gb to 50 Tb (Go*Mois) 1 386,842 0,0190 26,35 20,00 31,62
[File Application Backup] FAB – Object Storage Back-End – Until 5 Gb (Go*Mois) 0 0,0000 0,00 20,00 0,00
[File Application Backup] FAB – Protected Data Volume (Go*Mois) 10 463,143 0,2800 2 929,68 20,00 3 515,62


In the example above:

The client has backed up 10463,143GB of data.
The FAB service is charged 0.28€ excl. taxes/GB per month.
The backed up volume is hosted on a Flexible Engine server so the Object Storage Service is charged extra. This volume in Back-End is 1386,842GB.
The price of the Object Storage Service Back-End is excl. taxes/GB per month between 0GB and 50TB of data stored in Back-End.

The Dedicated Storage service is invoiced per month with a minimum commitment of 12 months. Invoicing depends on the type of product chosen: Ded.Storage.Common I/O ou Ded.Storage.Ultra-high I/O. It is also possible to add an extension to the chosen product.

The Storage Disaster Recovery Service is billed monthly based on the number of data transferred to the target availability area and the number of protected instances.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount incl. VAT
[Disaster Recovery Service] DRS – Protected Instances (Unité*Mois) 51 39,5000 2 014,50 20,00 2 417,40


In the previous example:

The client has protected 51 instances.
The price of a protected instance is 39.50€ excl. taxes per instance per month.

The Volume Backup Service is billed per month based on the number of GB backed up.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Volume Backup Service] Volume Backup Service 52 268,10 Go*Mois 0,0430 20,00 2 247,52


In the example above:

The customer saves 52268.10GB of data.
The VBS service is charged 0.043€ excl. taxes/GB stored per month.

The Object Storage Service is invoiced per GB per hour depending on the storage solution chosen: Standard Mono DC Storage, Warm Object Storage and Cold Object Storage and the volume of GB stored.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Object Storage Service] Mono DC hot storage – 5 Gb to 50 Tb 9 581,22 Go*Mois 0,0191 20,00 183,00
[Object Storage Service] Mono DC hot storage – Until 5 Gb 5,00 Go*Mois 0,0000 20,00 0,00


In the example above:

The customer is storing a volume of 9581.22 GB this month.
The Object Storage Service is charged 0.0191€ excl. taxes per GB stored this month.

Cloud Backup and Recovery service billing depends on the type of backup performed: Server, Database, Disk or SFS Turbo.

The CBR service is calculated on an hourly basis in GB per hour. The billing is calculated on a GB per hour basis. The monthly fee is calculated on the basis of 730 hours per month.

Item Invoiced Quantity Unit PU/base EUR HT VAT Rate Amount Eur excl.
Server Backup Vault 1 5 (GO*Mois) 0,04 20 0,2
Data server backup vault 1 100

(GO*Mois)

0,08 20 8
Disk Backup Vault 1 1000

(GO*Mois)

0,02 20 20
SFS Turbo normal vault 1 50 (GO*mois) 0,07 20 3,5

The billing for the Key Management Service depends on the number of Customer Master Keys (CMK) generated and the number of API requests made.

The billing of the number of keys is done on a monthly basis of the existence of the key (CMK).

The KMS service is calculated on an hourly basis based on the number of keys (CMK) per hour and the number of API requests. Key billing is calculated at the granularity of the number of hours of existence of each CMK. The monthly fee is calculated on the basis of 730 hours per month.

 

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Label  Unit  Price
KMS Key key/month  €                              0,625
API requests – Until 20 000 slice of 10000  €                                     –
API requests – above 20 000 slice of 10000  €                              0,018

Network

When you select «Billed by Traffic» on the bandwidth attached to an EIP, the outgoing data (Data Traffic) is billed to the volume from the number of GB outgoing per month and in increments according to the volume of outgoing data transferred from a public Flexible Engine IP adress to the internet or another public IP in the Orange Cloud. Billing is based on the granularity of the transferred GBs. Started GBs are billed.

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Data Traffic] Outbound Traffic – 10 000 to 50 000 Gb (Go*Mois) 29 635,152 0,0660

(Go*Month)

1 955,92 20,00 2 347,10
[Data Traffic] Outbound Traffic – 15 to 10 000 Gb (Go*Mois) 9 985 0,0700

(Go*Month)

698,95 20,00 838,74
[Data Traffic] Outbound Traffic – Until 15 Gb (Go*Mois) 0 0,0000

(Go*Month)

0,00 20,00 0,00

 

In the previous example:
The client transferred 29635,152 GB from a public IP address Flexible Engine to the Internet or another public IP.
Between 15 and 10000 GB, the price of the transferred data is 0.070€ excl. taxes/GB this month.
Between 10,000 and 50,000, the price of the transferred data is 0.066€ excl. taxes/GB this month.

When you select «Billed by Bandwidth» on the bandwidth attached to an EIP, the outgoing data (Data Traffic) are billed based on the value of the chosen bandwidth and the duration in the month during which this bandwidth was applied. All bandwidths are added and weighted by the duration at which they are used. The sum is expressed in Mbit*months and a decreasing rate is applied.

ServiceCloud Charge Label Quantity Billing Unit Unit Price Amount HT Currency
Bandwidth Up to 20 Mbps 20,00 Mbit.Month 3,5000 70,00 EUR
Bandwidth From 20 Mbps to 50 Mbps 30,00 Mbit.Month 3,2500 97,50 EUR
Bandwidth From 50 Mbps to 200 Mbps 150,00 Mbit.Month 2,9000 435,00 EUR
Bandwidth From 200 Mbps to 500 Mbps 43,28 Mbit.Month 2,5000 108,20 EUR

 

In the previous example:
The total sum of the weighted bandwidths at their duration is 243.28 Mbit.months: for example a bandwidth of 200 Mbit used throughout the month, and another bandwidth of 200 Mbit used less than half of the month.

The first 20 Mbit.months are charged at €3.50/Mbit.month
The following 30 Mbit.months are charged at €3.25/Mbit.month
The following 150 Mbit.months are charged at €2.90/Mbit.month
The remaining 43.28 Mbit.month are charged at €2.50/Mbit.month

The amount of outbound volume is billed by the outbound GB per month in increments based on the amount of outbound data transferred from a Flexible Engine public IP address to the Internet or another Orange Cloud for Business public IP. Billing is based on the number of GBs transferred. Partial GBs are charged.

Item Invoiced Quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Object Storage Service] Outbound Traffic – 10 000 to 50 000 Gb (Go*Month) 40000 0,065

(Go*Month)

2 600,00 20 3 120,00
[Object Storage Service] Outbound Traffic – 15 to 10 000 Gb (Go*Month) 9 985 0,07

(Go*Month)

698,95 20 838,74
[Object Storage Service] Outbound Traffic – Until 15 Gb (Go*Month) 15 0

(Go*Month)

0 20 0

 

In the above example:

The customer transferred 40,000 GB from a Flexible Engine public IP address to the Internet or another public IP.
Between 15 and 10000 GB, the price of the transferred data is 0,070€ HT/GB this month.
Between 10,000 and 50,000 GB, the price of the transferred data is 0.065 €HT/GB this month.

The Elastic Load Balancer service is charged according to the number of hours of use. The price varies according to the version. There are versions 1 and 2.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Elastic Load Balancer] Load Balancer aaS v1 12 648,00 Heures 0,0490 20,00 619,75
[Elastic Load Balancer] Load Balancer aaS v2 2 229,00 Heures 0,0490 20,00 109,22


In the example above:

The customer used the ELB version 1 service for 12,648 hours.
The ELB version 1 service fee is 0.049€ excl. VAT/hour.
The customer has used the ELB service version 2 for 2,229 hours.
The ELB service version 2 costs 0.049€ excl. VAT/hr.

The Virtual Private Network service is charged per hour of use.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Virtual Private Network] VPN aaS (Heures) 2 975,952 0,0420 124,99 20,00 149,99


In the example above:

The customer used the service for 2975,952 hours this month.
The service is charged at 0.042€ excl. taxes/h.

Public IP Addresses service is charged according to the number of floating IP addresses per hour. There is a billing for the first floating IP and a billing for the other floating IPs. EIPs are billed from the time they are reserved within a domain until they are released. Whether or not they are attached to a service (ECS, ELB, NATG,…) has no impact on the billing.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Public IP Addresses] First Elastic IP (IP*Heure) 742,857 0,0035 2,60 20,00 3,12
[Public IP Addresses] Other Elastic IP (IP*Heure) 6 694,286 0,0035 23,43 20,00 28,12


In the previous example:

The customer used his first floating IP address for 742,857 hours.
The first floating IP address is charged 0.0035€ excl. taxes/h.
The customer used his other floating IP addresses for 6694,286 hours.
The latter are invoiced at 0.0035€ excl. taxes/h.

The service Domain Name Service is invoiced monthly according to the number of domains and the number of requests.

A domain is considered a “Hosted Zone”. The latter is billed according to the configured zones on the first day of each month. For testing purposes, a hosted zone that is deleted within 12 hours of its creation is not billed. However, requests are billed.

A request corresponds to a traffic resolution. Requests are invoiced in proportion to the number of requests.

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Domain Name Service] DNS Hosted Zone – first 25 hosted Zones (Unité*Mois) 25 0,4100 10,25 20,00 12,30
[Domain Name Service] DNS Hosted Zone – over 25 hosted Zones (Unité*Mois) 11 0,0800 0,88 20,00 1,06
[Domain Name Service] DNS Standard Queries – first Million (Unité) 0,091 0,3300 0,03 20,00 0,04


In the example above:

The customer has configured a total of 36 zones.
The first 25 hosted zones are charged €0.41 excl. taxes/unit.
Beyond the first 25 hosted zones, the following ones are charged 0.08€ excl. taxes/unit.

The NAT Gateway service is billed by the hour according to the chosen size (number of new connections to the SNAT Gateway per hour).

 

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Nat Gateway] NAT Gateway Large 741,00 Heures 0,4000 20,00 296,40


In the example above:

The client used Large NATG for 741 hours.
The hour of use of a NATG Large is charged 0,40€ excl. VAT/unit.

The Flexible Engine Direct Connect premium service allows you to set up your Direct Connect via the Flexible Engine console.

Your OBS Galerie VPN access is connected to your online services via a virtual connection called a “hosted connection”, established by our network partner OBS in the selected region.

The customer must subscribe independently to the OBS Galerie VPN service, sign two separate contracts and obtain two invoices. Native redundancy is included in the service. The service is determined by the available bandwidth between the customer’s location and the OBS Galerie VPN network. The cost is for one VPN client. For multi-tenant accounts, a VPN client can be connected to an unlimited number of locations under a single account.

The virtual “hosted connection” is billed in outbound Mbps per month and in increments based on the amount of outbound data from the virtual machine. The billing is calculated based on the number of Mbps transferred.

For a Standard connection, the price is per connection. It is strongly recommended to use at least 2 ports.

Item Invoiced Quantity Unit PU/base EUR HT Rate VAT Amount Eur excl.
[Direct Connect] Hosted Connection – 1 to 5 Mbps (Mbps*Mois) 1 5 (Mbps*Month) 5,50 20 6,60
[Direct Connect] Hosted Connection – 101 to 200 Mbps (Mbps*Mois) 1  

(Mbps*Month)

91,30 20 109,56
[Direct Connect] Standard Connection – 1 port 1GE 1 1000

(Mbps*Month)

496,10 20 595,32

 

In the previous example:

The customer transferred 5 Mbps from a Flexible Engine VPC to the Internet or another virtual machine.

Between 1 and 5 Mbps, the price of the transferred data is 5,50€HT/Mbps this month.

Between 101 and 200, the price of the transferred data is 91,30€HT/Go this month.

In this case, the service utility has a port for a standard connection, the price of this 1GE port is 496,10HT per connection this month.

Data Analysis

The DWS price is composed of two billing units, the billing is detailed as follows:

  • Cost of the DWS instance used: The DWS instance is charged according to the number of hours of use. The number of hours of a full month is capped at 650 hours. The price varies according to the flavor.
  • Cost of the storage used: the storage is calculated on an hourly basis in GB per hour. The monthly amount is calculated on the basis of 744 hours per month.
Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Data Warehouse Service] dws.m1.xlarge.ultrahigh 2232 Heures 0,3900 20,00 870,48

 

In the example above:
The customer used the dws.m1.xlarge.ultrahigh instance for 2232 hours.
The dws.m1.xlarge.ultrahigh instance fee is 0,3900€ excl. VAT/hour.

The Cloud Search Service (CSS) is charged for the usage of the CSS instances, the storage Elastic Volume Service (EVS) and the Network Outbound Traffic as follows:

  • The CSS instances is charged according to the instance type and specifications (vCPUs and RAM), the number of used instances, the usage duration, the selected billing mode (either PAYG or Reserved Instance).
    In Pay-as-You-Go (PAYG)
    There is no minimum fee or usage requirement. The service is automatically charged from the time that the resource is created until the time it is stopped or deleted based on a usage at the minute granularity according to PAYG Hourly Price. Over 650 hours of usage in the month, the service is charged according to the PAYG Monthly Price, which generates a significant cost saving compared to the Hourly Price. In the ds serie, the CSS instance uses a local data disk and is charged until it is deleted, and not simply stopped as it is the case for the other flavors.
    In Reserved Instance mode (RI)
    In order to benefit from significant cost savings compared to the Pay-as-you-go price, the user can subscribe to Reserved Instances with an irrevocable commitment of a period of 1 year, 2 years or 3 years. The subscription is made by the user himself on his customer space in the OBS Cloud Store and activated the next month. Two models can be chosen:
    – With Reserved Instance without upfront, the user is charged with a fixed amount each month regardless his usage
    – With a Reserved Instance with Upfront, the user have an Upfront Payment (which corresponds to a part of the total cost of the Instance during the period) and a Monthly Fee. The Upfront Payment is due for each reserved period (initial and renewal). The « Effective Monthly » cost is for information only, resulting from calculating the sum of the Upfront payment amortization per month, plus the Monthly Fee.

2) The storage from the Elastic Volume Service (EVS) that the user attaches to the CSS instance is charged according to the prices and billing rules described in the corresponding section https://cloud.orange-business.com/nos-tarifs/elastic-volume-service/

3) The Network Outbound Traffic which is generated by the CSS instance is charged according to the prices and billing rules described in the corresponding section https://cloud.orange-business.com/nos-tarifs/data-traffic/.

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Cloud Search Service] ess.spec-4u32g 645,0794 Heures 0,3894 20,00 251,1939
[Cloud Search Service] ess.spec-4u8g 422,6413 Heures 0,2655 20,00 112,2113

 

In the example above:

The customer used the ess.spec-4u32g instance for 645,0794 hours.

The ess.spec-4u32g instance fee is 0,3894€ excl. VAT/hour.

The customer has used the ess.spec-4u8g instance for 422,6413 hours.

The ess.spec-4u8g instance costs 0,2655€ excl. VAT/hr.

Data Injection Service is billed based on the partition hour, PUT Payload quantity and the storage used. The billing is detailed as follows:

  • Cost of the DIS stream partition used: Partition is the base capacity unit of DIS. There are two types of partition: General partition and advanced partition. The general partition provides a capacity of 1MB/sec data input, 2MB/sec data output and support up to 1000 records put per second. The advanced partition provides a capacity of 5MB/sec data input ,10MB/sec data output and support up to 2000 records put per second. The DIS stream partition is charged according to the number of hours of use. Charging starts from the time when the DIS stream is created and stops when the DIS stream is deleted.
  • Cost of the PUT Payload Unit number: A record is the data that your data producer adds to DIS stream. A PUT Payload Unit is counted in 25KB payload ‘chunks’ that comprise a record. For example, a 5KB record contains one PUT Payload Unit, a 45KB record contains two PUT Payload Units, and a 1000KB record contains 40 PUT Payload Units. PUT Payload Unit is charged with a per million PUT Payload Units rate.
  • Cost of the data storage used: Data can be preserved in a DIS stream for 1 to 7 days. Data will be deleted at the end of your selected retention period. In general, the data storage one day is free, it means that 84GB of storage space for each partition is free to use. Of course, the final free space size can be specified according to the actual situation. The storage is calculated on an hourly basis in GB per hour. The monthly amount is calculated based on 744 hours per month.

DIS is charged for resource usage as follow:

  • One Partition Costs=partition time * partition rate + Payload Unit Num * Payload Unit Rate + Data storage size * storage size rate
  • Total Costs per stream = Partition 1 Cost + Partition 2 Cost + … + Partition n Cost

Both resources will be charged at the same time. Each charged will be listed separately. There will be 3 CDR records for each stream in the billing interval.

The data will be cached for some time in the service, and default cache time is 24 hours. If the user wants dump the data to OBS, the operation in OBS will be charged separately.

For example:

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Data Ingestion Service] Partition Time 2646,00 Heures 0,0148 20,00 39,16
[Data Ingestion Service] PUT Payload Units per million units 1,00 Unit 0,0143 20,00 0,00
[Data Ingestion Service] Storage Retention 0,00 GiB/Month 0.0205 20,00 0,00

Partition Hour: One Partition costs € 0,0148 per hour. So the cost of partition is 2646 * 0.0148 = 39.16€.

PUT Payload Unit (25KB): The 1 million Payload Unit costs €0,0143. Our data producers 1 million PUT Payload records. So it costs 0.0143€.

Storage Retention: We didn’t choose the data storage retention function, so the cost is 0.

So, the total is: € (39.16 + 0.0143)

MapReduce Service is charged the lifetime of the instance over the duration of its existence. Cloud Servers use a system disk based on the EVS elastic volume service, and for some flavors a local disk is also included. The ECS is invoiced:

– when it is turned on for flavors that do not include a local disk.

– including when it is turned off and until it is completely deleted for flavors including a local disk.

For example:

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Map Reduce Service] cc3.2xlarge.4 (Hadoop) 744 Heures 0,0856 20,00 63,6864
[Map Reduce Service] cc3.2xlarge.4 (Hadoop) 744 Heures 0,0856 20,00 63,6864

 

Suppose that you have subscribed to an MRS cluster charged in Pay-per-use mode. The cluster has one Master (8 vCPUs, 32 GB) node and one Core (8 vCPUs, 32 GB) node. Both the Master and Core nodes have a default 40 GB system disk and 100 GB storage space. In the example above, you used 2 cc3.2xlarge.4 instances for 744 hours. The cc3.2xlarge.4 instance fee is 0,0856€ excl. VAT/hour.

The pricing details per hour would be as follows:

  • MRS management fee = 2 x 63,6864 (MRS instance price);
  • ECS fee = 2 x ECS instance price;
  • EVS fee = (40 + 40 + 100 + 100) x storage price;
  • Total price per hour = MRS management fee + ECS fee + EVS fee.

Model Arts supports machine learning and deep learning algorithm development and deployment, including data processing, model development, training, and management, and service deployment.

The billing items include model development environments (notebooks), model training, and service deployment (real-time services). All the instances are charged according to the number of hours of use.

For example:

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[ModelArts] Instance ma.c6.large.4 – 2 vCPU 8GB RAM 153,65 Heures 0,1279 20,00 19,65

 

The customer used the ma.c6.large.4 instance for 153,65 hours.

The ma.c6.large.4 instance instance fee is 0,1279€ excl. VAT/hour.

So, the cost is: 153,65 * 0,1279 = 19,65€

Data Lake Insight supports pay-per-use billing mode. It’s charged according to the number of hours of Compute unit (CU). CU is the pricing unit of queues. A CU contains one core and 4-GB memory. The computing capabilities of queues vary with queue specifications. The higher the specifications, the higher the computing capability.

For example:

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Data Lake Insight] Compute unit specification 23808,00 Heures 0,0649 20,00 1545,14

 

The customer used one compute unit for 23808,00 hours.

One CU fee is 0,0649€ excl. VAT/hour.

So, the cost is: 23808,00 * 0,0649 = 1545,14€

Applications Services

The Distributed Cache Service is billed from the time the DCS instance is created until it is stopped or deleted. This service is billed on an hourly granularity basis. Billing also depends on the type of DCS instance chosen: Single-node, Master/Standby or Proxy Cluster.

Item Invoiced quantity Unit Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate Amount EUR excl.
[Distributed Cache Service] Single Nodes – cache.m1.medium (Heures) 743,889 0,0360 26,78 20,00 32,14


In the example above:

The customer has used one DCS instance for 743,889 hours.
The hour of use of a Single-node DCS instance is billed 0.0360€ excl. VAT/unit.

Entreprise Application

There are two billing modes for this service: pay as you go billing and reserved mode billing.

The on-demand mode offers total flexibility with pay-as-you-go pricing rules.
When you start a workspace instance, you will be charged a fixed monthly fee based on the selected instance and an hourly rate based on the number of hours the instance is powered up.
When you shut down the instance, the fixed monthly fee will still apply, but the hourly rate billing will stop.
When you delete the instance, the fixed monthly fee is stopped the following month and the hourly billing is stopped as soon as the instance is deleted.

Note: If you delete a workspace instance and recreate one during the month: two fixed monthly fees will be applied.

The reserved mode allows for significant savings compared to pay-per-use billing. It is ideal for extended use of workspace instances. The reservation of the instance is for a period of one month with tacit renewal. You will pay a fixed monthly fee that depends on the type of instance chosen. In this mode, all notions of duration of use or workspace instance on/off/deleted do not apply.

Note: If you subscribe to multiple workspace instances through the technical console and if you have subscribed to a single workspace instance in reserved mode of the same template on your Cloud Customer Space, the workspace instance with the highest usage will be taken into account in the reserved instance billing and the other instances will be billed on a per use basis. This will allow you to benefit from the discount related to the reserved instance billing on the workspace instance with the highest usage.

The new VDI Dedicated Instances are charged in pure PAYG, including those components:

  • Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), charged at hourly price, at the granularity of the minute. Monthly charges are blocked at 100 hours.
  • Windows Server Licences, charged at hourly price, at the granularity of the minute.  Monthly charges are blocked at 100 hours.

For example :

Item Unit Invoiced quantity
Price per Unit/Basics EUR excl. VAT Rate
Amount EUR excl.
Paris – s3v.medium.4 (1 vCPU, 4GB RAM) 0,18 100 18 20,00 21,6
License Windows 0,06 100 6 20,00 7.2

 

The following components are also required and should be subscribed separately:

  • VDI oneclick™ License (User Basic, User Professional, Standard App, Add-ons, ECS, EVS, EIP), charged monthly according to the plan subscribed.
  • The storage Elastic Volume Service, depending on the storage class you use
  • Outbound Network Traffic
  • Elastic IP

oneclick™ Licenses:

The Oneclick Licenses are charged monthly. You can choose a monthly or a yearly commitment.

  • pay-per-license model: You purchase one license per named user and per application. All users have unlimited access to oneclick™ and to the number of applications you purchase. Billing takes place in advance.
  • pay-per-pool model: The oneclick™ users and application licenses are only charged for a selected number of licenses that should be available as a „pool“ for concurrent access. This model is suitable if less than 70% of your created users use oneclick™ at the same time or if any number of users share a limited infrastructure resource. Billing takes place in advance.
  • pay-per-use model: The oneclick™ users and application licenses are charged entirely on a usage basis, for all those who have accessed applications concurrently at the peak. This model is suitable if less than 40% of your created users use oneclick™ at the same time. Billing is based on usage and is calculated at the end of the month.