Pay-as-you-go

Billing

Charges for pay-as-you-go access zone names are calculated based on the following four billable items. For complete pricing information, see Pay-as-you-go.

Billable item	Price	Description
Domain Name Count	CNY 0.1/domain name/day	Billed by the number of Access Domain (including enabled and disabled ones). Settled daily.
DNS Query Count	CNY 0.03/10,000 requests	Billed by the number of DNS queries processed by GTM. Settled daily.
Health Probe Count	CNY 10/10,000 checks	Billed by the number of health checks performed on your addresses. Settled daily. Important If you disable an Access Domain, health check tasks for its addresses continue to run. To stop billing, delete the health check tasks.
SMS Alerts	CNY 0.04/message	Billed by the number of text message alerts sent. Settled daily.

Create a pay-as-you-go access zone name

You do not need to create a GTM instance separately. With the pay-as-you-go model, GTM automatically creates and binds an instance to the access zone name upon creation.

1. Go to the Alibaba Cloud DNS - Global Traffic Manager console, and click the Access Domain tab.

2. Click Create Access Domain, and select Custom Scenario.

3. Hover over the access zone name icon to open the configuration pop-up, and then click Basic Configuration. Complete the following parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Billing method	Select Pay-as-you-go.
   Access zone name	The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) used for traffic management. It consists of a host record and a zone name. Host record: The system generates a default host record, but you can specify a custom record, such as biz or prod.biz. Zone name: The primary domain or subdomain hosted on a public authoritative DNS server.
   Record type	The DNS record type that GTM returns for intelligent routing. This determines the type of address pool you can use. Supported types are A (for IPv4 address pools), AAAA (for IPv6 address pools), and CNAME (for domain name address pools).
   TTL	GTM provides traffic management as a domain-based service. The TTL specifies how long a DNS record resolved by GTM is cached by local DNS servers.
   Enabled state	The state of the GTM instance. The default state is Disabled. When disabled, GTM policies are inactive and the service does not perform DNS resolution. We recommend that you configure your address pools, endpoints, and load balancing policies before you enable the instance and direct traffic to it. Important If a DNS record of the same type already exists for your service domain, such as www.example.com, in Alibaba Cloud DNS, enabling the GTM instance overrides the existing record. GTM will route traffic based on its policies.
   Remarks	An optional, user-defined label to identify the application service associated with this instance.

4. Click Yes to create the access zone name. GTM automatically creates an instance.

   Note

   Multiple access zone names that share the same FQDN but have different record types share a single GTM instance. For example, an A record and an AAAA record for www.example.com would share one instance.

View pay-as-you-go usage

1. Go to Alibaba Cloud DNS - Instance Plans, and click the Global Traffic Manager tab.

2. Switch to the Pay-as-you-go tab. To filter the data, select a billable item from the Billable Item drop-down list, such as Domain Name Count, DNS Query Count, Health Probe Count, or SMS Alerts, and then set a query date range.

3. You can also view a daily breakdown of usage for each billable item.

   The daily usage details table includes the following billable items: domain name count (USD 0.015 per item/day), DNS query count (USD 0.004 per 10,000 queries), health check count (USD 1.5 per 10,000 checks), and SMS alert count (USD 0.225 per alert). Each row shows the actual usage for the corresponding billable item on a specific date.

Delete a pay-as-you-go access zone name

Deleting a pay-as-you-go access zone name also deletes the associated GTM instance. This action cannot be undone, so proceed with caution.

Impacts

• After the access zone name is deleted, you cannot recover its configuration data.

• Billing for the instance stops immediately.

• DNS resolution for the domain reverts to any existing settings on your authoritative DNS server.

Recommendations

1. Before deleting the instance, confirm that your services no longer depend on its traffic routing or failover capabilities.

2. Back up any critical configuration information before you proceed.

3. After deleting the instance, verify that DNS resolution for the domain works as expected.

Procedure

1. Go to the Alibaba Cloud DNS - Global Traffic Manager console and find the access zone name that you want to delete.

2. In the Actions column, click Delete. In the confirmation dialog box, review the potential impacts and then confirm the deletion.