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Pay as You Go from Alibaba Cloud Marketplace

The billing methods Overview▸ for AutoMQ Cloud BYOC Edition support both prepaid and pay-as-you-go options. This article details how to make payments and settle accounts using the pay-as-you-go model via 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 sales on the international site. If needed, please refer to the document 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 in the following regions. For other regional requirements, please refer to the document 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 Basic Software > Application Development category, with the product name AutoMQ for Kafka (BYOC Pay-as-you-go Edition). Cloud accounts that meet the requirements of [pay-as-you-go-from-alibaba-cloud-marketplace▸](Pay As You Go From Alibaba Cloud Marketplace ▸#ZYPJdOCmSoM8OGxveC8c8cd8nHf) can use this payment method. The overall process is shown below:

  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 are not charged for subscribing and creating an environment console. Using AutoMQ only requires pay-as-you-go payment for the AKU numbers consumed by the Kafka clusters in real-time. For detailed AKU billing instructions for 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 or different business department ownership. Multiple Kafka instances (clusters) can be created and managed within each environment. For detailed concepts of the environment, refer to Overview▸.

Additional Instructions​

If the pay-as-you-go method does not meet your needs, you can refer to Obtaining Services▸ to contact technical staff for separate communication. The AutoMQ Cloud BYOC Edition also supports prepaid settlement by purchasing subscription licenses in advance.