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Non-Regional Reserved Capacity

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Anywhere Reserved Capacity is ideal for business scenarios that are not region-sensitive and require only public network access. Purchasing a one-year Anywhere Reserved Capacity provides a significant discount compared to the pay-as-you-go billing method.

Applicable items

Anywhere Reserved Capacity offsets only the storage fees for Standard LRS capacity in Anywhere Buckets within your Alibaba Cloud account.

Limits

You can purchase only one Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

Offsetting limits

  • Anywhere Reserved Capacity offsets only the Standard LRS storage fees for Anywhere Buckets in your account. It does not support cross-account offsetting or offsetting other types of fees.

  • Anywhere Reserved Capacity cannot be used to offset fees for Standard LRS capacity in Anywhere Buckets that were incurred before you purchased the Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

How offsetting works

The offsetting method for Anywhere Reserved Capacity is based on a fixed total amount.

Suppose you purchase a 10 TB Anywhere Reserved Capacity for a one-year term. For one year, you can use it to offset the fees for 10 TB of Standard LRS storage in an Anywhere Bucket each hour. If your OSS Standard LRS storage usage exceeds 10 TB in a given hour during that year, the Anywhere Reserved Capacity offsets the fees for 10 TB of capacity, and the excess amount is charged on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Offset order

Standard LRS storage fees for Anywhere Buckets are offset in the following order: Anywhere Reserved Capacity, then pay-as-you-go.

Offsetting example

If User A purchased 10 TB of Anywhere Reserved Capacity in March 2023 and used 12 TB of Standard LRS storage in their Anywhere Bucket in June, the storage fee deduction for June is calculated as follows:

  1. The 10 TB Anywhere Reserved Capacity offsets the fees for 10 TB of Standard LRS storage.

  2. The remaining 2 TB is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Related operations

Purchase an Anywhere Reserved Capacity

Each Alibaba Cloud account can purchase only one Anywhere Reserved Capacity. To make a purchase, go to the Object Storage Service (OSS) Anywhere Reserved Capacity purchase page and complete the upfront payment.

Important

After you purchase an Anywhere Reserved Capacity, if you have not yet created an Anywhere Bucket, create one promptly and use it to store Standard LRS files. For more information, see Create a bucket.

Anywhere reserved capacity upgradation

An Anywhere Reserved Capacity is eligible for an upgrade three months after its purchase. After this period, you can upgrade your purchased Anywhere Reserved Capacity in the OSS console.

  1. Log on to the OSS console.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Usage > Reserved Capacity Management.

  3. On the Reserved Capacity Management page, click Upgrade to the right of the target Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

  4. On the Object Storage Service (OSS) Anywhere Reserved Capacity | Upgrade/Downgrade page, select the new Anywhere Reserved Capacity Specification, click Buy Now, and then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the payment.

    Important

    For example, if you complete the upgrade of an Anywhere Reserved Capacity at 08:45 on July 7, 2023:

    • The new Anywhere Reserved Capacity specification takes effect at 00:00 on the day after the upgrade order is completed. In this case, the effective time is 00:00 on July 8, 2023.

    • The one-year validity period of the new Anywhere Reserved Capacity restarts at 00:00 on the day after the upgrade order is completed. In this case, the new validity period ends at 00:00 on July 8, 2024.

    For information about the billing rules for upgrading instance specifications, see Billing rules for resource upgrades.

Renew an Anywhere Reserved Capacity

You can manually renew a purchased Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

  1. Log on to the OSS console.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Resource Usage > Reserved Capacity Management.

  3. On the Reserved Capacity Management page, click Renew to the right of the target Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

    Note

    If a Resource Access Management (RAM) user performs the renewal, you must grant the RAM user the `AliyunBSSOrderAccess` system permission. This permission allows the user to view, pay for, and cancel orders in the User Center. For more information about how to grant system permissions to a RAM user, see Manage RAM user permissions.

  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the payment process.

Request a refund for an Anywhere Reserved Capacity

You can request a full refund for an Anywhere Reserved Capacity within five days of purchase, provided that it has not been used. No refund is available if the Anywhere Reserved Capacity has been used or if more than five days have passed since the purchase date.

To request a refund if you meet the conditions, follow these steps.

  1. Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Orders > Unsubscribe.

  3. On the Resource Unsubscription tab, select the Resource Plan tab, set Type to Unsubscribe If Unused For Five Days, and then click Unsubscribe to the right of the Anywhere Reserved Capacity.

  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the unsubscription flow.

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