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 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), 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 an instance) -
available
(not attached to an instance)
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 an instance) -
available
(not attached to an instance)
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 an instance) -
available
(not attached to an instance)
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 an instance) -
available
(not attached to an instance)
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. |
EIP
EIP - External IP not associated with a running instance - per hour
The allocation (reservation) to your account of an External IP (EIP), per month.
The EIP is not associated (not used) with a running instance 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 an External IP (EIP), per month.
The EIP is not associated (not used) with a running instance or network interface in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
EIP - Additional External IP in a VPC associated with a running instance - per hour
An additional External IP (EIP) that is associated (used) with an instance or network interface in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), per hour.
The first EIP you associate in each VPC is free of charge. This rate applies to any EIP you associate after the first one. |
FCU
Instance
Instance - On demand - xx.size Linux / Windows - per hour
The use of an instance, either predefined or custom, per hour.
This rate includes all the components of the instance: compute, memory, and required licenses. For more information, see Getting the Price of Your Resources
This rate applies to instances in the running
state only. Stopped and terminated instances are not charged. For more information, see About Instance Lifecycle.
For more information on available instance types and their dedicated purposes, see Instance Types.
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Terminated instances 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 instances.
This fee applies once per hour when you have at least one running dedicated instance in the Region. For more information, see Getting the Price of Your Cloud Resources > Calculating the Price of Dedicated Instances.
LBU
LBU - Usage - per unit and per hour
The use of a running load balancer in the public Cloud or in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), 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:
Inbound traffic (from the Internet to your load balancer) is free of charge for all Regions. |
NAT Gateway
NAT Gateway - Usage - per hour
The use of a running NAT gateway, per hour.
The NAT gateway is in the available
state in your account.
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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:
Inbound traffic (from the Internet to your OOS buckets) is free of charge for all Regions. |
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.
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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.
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Deleted resources may still appear in your account for one hour, but are not charged anymore. |
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