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Pay as You Go from Alibaba Cloud Marketplace

Refer to Billing Overview▸, the AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition supports both prepaid and pay-as-you-go billing methods. This article provides a detailed explanation on how to make payments and settlements using the pay-as-you-go model through the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.

In this article, the terms AutoMQ product service provider, AutoMQ service provider, and AutoMQ specifically refer to AutoMQ HK Limited.

The terms cloud providers, Public Cloud providers, and others mentioned in this article specifically refer to the cloud service providers underlying AutoMQ Cloud as designated by the user, such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, etc.

Prerequisites​

AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition is commercially available on the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. If the current application is deployed in the Alibaba Cloud Public Cloud environment, it is recommended to use the pay-as-you-go billing mode of the marketplace. The following conditions need to be met before use:

  • Site Requirements: The enterprise application must be deployed on the Alibaba Cloud China site. Currently, AutoMQ does not support international site sales. If required, please refer to the documentation Obtaining Services▸ to contact our technical staff.

  • Account requirements: The current Alibaba Cloud account has passed real-name authentication.

  • Regional Requirements: The AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition currently supports deployment only in the following regions. For other region requirements, please refer to the documentation Obtaining Services▸ to contact our technical staff.

AutoMQ Cloud BYOC currently supports deployment to the following Alibaba Cloud regions: North China 1 (Qingdao), North China 2 (Beijing), North China 3 (Zhangjiakou), East China 1 (Hangzhou), East China 2 (Shanghai), South China 1 (Shenzhen), South China 3 (Guangzhou), Hong Kong, Singapore, US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia).

Cloud Marketplace Payment Process​

The AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition is now available in the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace under the Basic Software > Application Development category. The product name is AutoMQ for Kafka (BYOC Pay-As-You-Go Edition). Cloud accounts meeting the prerequisites can use this method for payment and settlement. The overall process is shown in the following figure:

  1. Alibaba Cloud users can go to the Cloud Marketplace and search for AutoMQ Kafka. Then find and subscribe to the AutoMQ for Kafka (BYOC Pay-As-You-Go) product.

  2. After subscribing, the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace will call the Alibaba Cloud Computing Nest service to deploy an AutoMQ Cloud BYOC environment console.

  3. Users can access the environment console and create AutoMQ Kafka instances as needed.

  4. The AutoMQ Kafka instances will be deployed and installed using the Business Edition image, and Alibaba Cloud ECS will automatically track the ECS and AKU usage for all instances.

  5. The Cloud Marketplace billing center will calculate the charges based on the total AKU usage of the paid image multiplied by the unit price and generate the bill accordingly.

In the above process, users do not incur charges when subscribing and creating the environment console. Using AutoMQ only requires pay-as-you-go for the real-time consumption of AKU numbers by the Kafka cluster. For details on the AKU billing of AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition, refer to Billing Instructions for BYOC▸.

Note:

Each subscription activation will deploy an environment console. While AutoMQ does not charge for deploying the environment console, running the environment console requires one ECS machine.

Refer to Glossary▸, it is generally recommended to create new environment consoles only under different network conditions and different business department affiliations. Within each environment, multiple Kafka instances (clusters) can be created and managed. For detailed concepts on the environment, refer to Overview▸.

Additional Instructions​

If the pay-as-you-go method does not meet your needs, please refer to Obtaining Services▸ to contact technical staff for individual communication. The AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition also supports prepaid settlement through advance purchase of subscription license authorization.