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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 of how to use Alibaba Cloud Marketplace for pay-as-you-go payments and billing.

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 is deployed on the Alibaba Cloud China site. Currently, AutoMQ does not support international site sales. If there is a need, please refer to the document Obtaining Services▸ to contact our technical staff.

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

  • Region requirements: AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition currently only supports deployment in the following regions. For other region 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​

AutoMQ Cloud BYOC is now available in the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace > Basic Software > Application Development category under the product name AutoMQ for Kafka (BYOC Pay-As-You-Go). Cloud accounts that meet the Pay As You Go From Alibaba Cloud Marketplace ▸#ZYPJdOCmSoM8OGxveC8c8cd8nHf) requirements can use this payment method. The overall process is as 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 can subscribe and create an environment console without being charged. Using AutoMQ only incurs charges based on the real-time consumption of AKU units by the Kafka cluster. For more details on AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition AKU billing, 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 a new environment console only under different network conditions or different business department affiliations. Within each environment, multiple Kafka instances (clusters) can be created and managed. For detailed concepts about environments, refer to Overview▸.

Additional Instructions​

If the pay-as-you-go model does not meet your needs, you can contact technical support for further discussions by referring to Obtaining Services▸. The AutoMQ Cloud BYOC edition also supports prepaid subscription licensing for billing.