On February 29, Beijing time, Alibaba Cloud lowered the price of the official website of cloud products offline, with an average price reduction of more than 20% and a maximum reduction of 55%. This is the largest price reduction in Alibaba Cloud's history, involving more than 100 products and more than 500 product specifications, covering all core products such as computing, storage, and databases, and millions of new and existing customers can directly benefit from this price reduction. After the price reduction, Alibaba Cloud's core products** have broken through the lowest prices on the entire network.
This price reduction is in the form of a direct drop on the official website, which is applicable to both new and old customers who purchase on the official website. Among them, ECS is reduced by up to 36%, Object Storage Service (OSS) is reduced by up to 55%, and RDS is reduced by up to 40%. Whether it is a large customer or a small and medium-sized customer, a new customer or an old customer, you can place an order directly according to the new *** on the official website of Alibaba Cloud.
Liu Weiguang, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group and President of the Public Cloud Business Unit, said: "After more than 10 years of cloud computing development in China, the penetration rate of public cloud is still significantly lower than that of mature markets in Europe and the United States. As the largest cloud computing company in China, Alibaba Cloud hopes to use advanced public cloud services and accelerate the popularization and development of cloud computing in all walks of life in China through this large-scale price reduction. ”
Taking the cloud server U1 product, which is the most popular among small and medium-sized enterprises, as an example, it costs 768 yuan a year to buy a five-year version with 2C4G configuration, and only 485 yuan a year after the price reduction, a price reduction of 36%. OSS Standard Storage - Local Redundancy from 012 GB a month down to 009 GB, down 25%. In terms of databases, taking the ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL basic series as an example, it costs 936 yuan to purchase the five-year version of the 1C2G general-purpose configuration, and only 562 yuan a year after the price reduction, a price reduction of 40%. In addition, Alibaba Cloud has increased the monthly free Internet traffic quota for CDT from 10 GB to 20 GB.
For old customers who have been on annual subscriptions before, Alibaba Cloud has also launched corresponding preferential policies. If the customer renews the subscription within 3 months after the price reduction is released, the unconsumed annual subscription duration can be rebilled according to the new **. For example, an enterprise previously purchased a cloud server of 100,000 yuan for 1 year, and now it has only taken 6 months, as long as the customer renews it for another year, the 50,000 yuan of cloud resources that have not been consumed before can be re-billed according to the new ** (20% reduction), and the difference can be deducted from the renewal order, that is, 10,000 yuan less paid.
In addition, Alibaba Cloud has also fully upgraded the "99 Plan" to launch entry-level cloud servers for individual developers and small and medium-sized enterprises in 99 and 199 yuan.