Billing Glossary

This page provides a glossary of item lines on OUTSCALE invoices, with information about billing guidelines.

OUTSCALE resources are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis with accuracy to the second: every incomplete hour you consume is billed per second, not as a full hour. You can monitor your consumption at any time. For more information, see Getting Information About Your Resource Consumption.

Billing applies to compute, storage, and network resources. Rates may vary by Region and by hardware generation. For more information, see official price lists on the OUTSCALE website, or contact sales@outscale.com.

Item lines on invoices follow the Product_name - Offer - Unit and Duration format. Resources not listed in this glossary, such as Nets, are not billed.

BSU

`BSU - Magnetic storage - per GiB and per month`

The storage capacity (in GiB) you provisioned when creating a standard volume, per month.

The volume is in one of the following states in your account:

in-use (attached to a virtual machine (VM))
available (not attached to a VM)

This rate includes IOPS (input/output operations per second).

`BSU - Performance storage - per GiB and per month`

The storage capacity (in GiB) you provisioned when creating a gp2 volume, per month.

The volume is in one of the following states in your account:

in-use (attached to a VM)
available (not attached to a VM)

This rate includes IOPS (input/output operations per second).

`BSU - Enterprise storage - per GiB and per month`

The storage capacity (in GiB) you provisioned when creating an io1 volume, per month.

The volume is in one of the following states in your account:

in-use (attached to a VM)
available (not attached to a VM)

This rate does not include IOPS (input/output operations per second). For more information, see the [BSU - Enterprise storage - per IOPS and per month] entry below.

`BSU - Enterprise storage - per IOPS and per month`

The amount of input/output operations per second (IOPS) you provisioned when creating an io1 volume, per month.

The volume is in one of the following states in your account:

in-use (attached to a VM)
available (not attached to a VM)

This rate does not include storage capacity. For more information, see the [BSU - Enterprise storage - per GiB and per month] entry above.

DirectLink

`DirectLink - 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps port usage - per month`

The use of a DirectLink port, per month.

If you need several ports for redundancy, this rate is multiplied by the number of ports.

Traffic is free of charge for all Regions where the service is available. For more information, see the official price list for DirectLink.

FCU

`FCU Data transfer - Outbound traffic - per GiB`

The amount of data (in GiB) transferred from your VMs to the Internet.

Outbound traffic is free of charge for the following Regions:

eu-west-2
us-east-2
us-west-1
cloudgouv-eu-west-1

`FCU Data transfer - Inbound traffic - per GiB`

The amount of data (in GiB) transferred from the Internet to your VMs.

Inbound traffic is free of charge for all Regions.

LBU

`LBU - Usage - per unit and per hour`

The use of a running load balancer in the public Cloud or in a Net, per hour.

This rate does not include data transferred through the load balancer. For more information, see the [LBU - Total outbound traffic - per GiB] entry below.

`LBU - Total outbound traffic - per GiB`

The amount of data (in GiB) transferred through your load balancer to the Internet.

Outbound traffic (from your load balancer to the Internet) is free of charge for the following Regions:

eu-west-2
us-east-2
us-west-1
cloudgouv-eu-west-1

Inbound traffic (from the Internet to your load balancer) is free of charge for all Regions.

NAT Service

`NAT Gateway - Usage - per hour`

The use of a running NAT service, per hour.

The NAT service is in the available state in your account.

Inbound traffic (from the Internet to the NAT service) is free of charge for all Regions.
Outbound traffic (from the NAT service to the Internet) incurs additional charges for data transfer. For more information, see the official price list for NAT services.

Deleted resources may still appear in your account for one hour, but are not charged anymore.

OOS

`OOS - Enterprise storage - per GiB and per month`

The amount of data (in GiB) stored in your OOS buckets, per month.

Storage rates vary by Region. For more information, see the official price list for object storage.

`OOS - Outbound traffic - per GiB`

The amount of data (in GiB) transferred from your OOS buckets to the Internet.

Outbound traffic (from your OOS buckets to the Internet) traffic is free of charge for the following Regions:

eu-west-2
us-east-2
us-west-1
cloudgouv-eu-west-1

Inbound traffic (from the Internet to your OOS buckets) is free of charge for all Regions.

Public IP

`EIP - External IP not associated with a running instance - per hour`

The allocation (reservation) to your account of a public IP, per month.

The public IP is not associated (not used) with a running VM or network interface in the public Cloud.

`EIP - External IP in a VPC not associated with a running instance - per hour`

The allocation (reservation) to your account of a public IP, per month.

The public IP is not associated (not used) with a running VM or network interface in a Net.

`EIP - Additional External IP in a VPC associated with a running instance - per hour`

An additional public IP that is associated (used) with a VM or network interface in a Net, per hour.

The first public IP you associate in each Net is free of charge. This rate applies to any public IP you associate after the first one.

Snapshot

`Snapshot - Storage - per GiB and per month`

First snapshot of a volume: The size (in GiB) of your stored snapshot, per month.

Subsequent snapshots of the same volume: The size (in GiB) of the changed data from the previous snapshot, per month.

This rate applies to all snapshots, including those automatically created when you create an OUTSCALE Machine Image (OMI) from a VM. For more information, see About OMIs.
Copying a snapshot across Regions incurs additional charges for data transfer through the Internet. If the snapshot you copy is stored in OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS), the source and destination Regions may also have different storage rates. For more information, see the OOS section above.

VM

`Instance - On demand - xx.size Linux / Windows - per hour`

The use of a VM, either predefined or custom, per hour.

This rate includes all the components of the VM: compute, memory, and required licenses. For more information, see Getting the Price of Your Resources.

This rate applies to VMs in the running state only. Stopped and terminated VMs are not charged. For more information, see About VM Lifecycle.

For more information on available VM types and their dedicated purposes, see VM Types.

Instances incur additional charges for data transfer. For more information, see the FCU section above.
Dedicated VMs are charged an additional 10% fee to the regular hourly price of the VM. For more information, see Getting the Price of Your Instances > Calculating the Price of Dedicated Instances.

Terminated VMs may still appear in your account for one hour, but are not charged anymore.

`Instance - Dedicated Instance - Additional price - per hour`

A 2€ fee for the use of dedicated VMs.

This fee applies once per hour when you have at least one running dedicated VM in the Region. For more information, see Getting the Price of Your Cloud Resources > Calculating the Price of Dedicated Instances.

VPN

`VPN - Usage - per hour`

The use of a deployed VPN connection, per hour.

The VPN connection is in the available state in your account.

Inbound traffic (from the Internet to your VPN connection) is free of charge for all Regions.
Outbound traffic (from your VPN connection to the Internet) incurs additional charges for data transfer. For more information, see the official price list for network services.

Deleted resources may still appear in your account for one hour, but are not charged anymore.

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