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Cloud Data Transfer

Overview

What is Cloud Data Transfer

Cloud Data Transfer (CDT) is a product designed to provide unified metering and billing for cloud network transmission services. CDT offers flexible and cost-effective billing options, including a free quota, pay-as-you-go, and tiered pricing, effectively helping users reduce cloud networking costs.

Benefits

CDT consolidates billing for multiple cloud services in scenarios where metering and billing are typically fragmented, comprehensively optimizing cloud network cost management. By offering a free quota and tiered pricing, it establishes a flexible and efficient billing system, reducing data transfer costs.

Upgraded traffic benefits: Offers a public BGP (multi-line) free quota of 220 GB/month, allocated separately for usage within China Mainland (20GB/month) and outside China Mainland (200 GB/month), further lowering your network costs.

Flexible and cost-effective billing: Public traffic is billed using a tiered cumulative pricing model with a pay-as-you-go basis. You pay only for what you use, and the unit price decreases as your usage increases, helping to avoid bandwidth waste.

Unified governance: Provides unified traffic billing and tag-based cost allocation across multiple cloud services, improving collaboration efficiency and enhancing financial controllability and predictability.

Terms

Term	Description
Public traffic	Data transfer between cloud resources and the public network, including outbound and inbound traffic. CDT employs different metering methods for public traffic across cloud products. For details, see Billing methods.
Cross-region traffic	Data transfer between cloud resources in different geographic regions.
Tiered cumulative pricing	A multi-tier pricing model where the total cost is the sum of charges across all applicable tiers. The larger your business scale, the more you save.

Supported products and billing methods

CDT offers unified billing only for VolcanoEngine network products and does not incur separate charges. Currently, CDT supports the products listed below. For more details, see Billing.

Supported product	Traffic type	Metering method
Cross-border public acceleration of ArkClaw Enterprise	Cross-region traffic	Pay-by-outbound-traffic
Elastic IP Address	Public traffic	Pay-by-outbound-traffic
Bandwidth Package	Public traffic	Pay-by-main-traffic
Transit Router	Cross-region traffic	Pay-by-outbound-traffic

Last updated: 2026.09.08 10:43:46