Direct Connect

Direct Connect
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Contents
Purchase Guide
Billing Overview
Purchasing in the Console
Renewing Connections©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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Purchase Guide
Billing Overview：

Last updated 2023-05-16 16:05:08
This document describes the billing and pricing of connection, dedicated tunnel and direct connect gateway.

Billing Details
Tencent Cloud Direct Connect is billed on the basis of connection, dedicated tunnel, and direct connect
gateway.

：NoteThe bandwidth units are 1000-based, which means 1 Tbps is equal to 1,000 Gbps and 1 Gbps is equal to1,000 Mbps.
The traffic units are 1024-based, which means 1 TB is equal to 1,024 GB and 1 GB is equal to 1,024 MB.

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The figure below specifies the fees:Connections
A connection is the connection between your local IDC and the Tencent Cloud Direct Connect access point. You needto pay both Tencent Cloud billable items and non-Tencent Cloud billable items.
Tencent Cloud billable items
You need to pay the monthly resource occupation fee for a dedicated access port.
You do not need to pay the resource occupation fee for a shared access port by partners.
Non-Tencent Cloud billable items
Leased-line fee: you should pay your ISP for the leased line between your local IDC and the Tencent Cloud
Direct Connect access point.
In-house wiring (IHW) rental fee: Direct Connect access points are generally deployed in neutral IDCs.
Therefore, fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) or IHW rental fee may incur. For more information, consult your property
operator or wiring provider.

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Dedicated tunnels
A dedicated tunnel is the Tencent Cloud private network connection between the Direct Connect access point and theTencent Cloud direct connect gateway.
If the Direct Connect access point and direct connect gateway are deployed in the same region, a free tier of 10Gbps will be provided. If you require a higher bandwidth, contact your Tencent Cloud sales rep.
If the Direct Connect access point and direct connect gateway are deployed in different regions, cross-region
communication over the private network will be charged for dedicated tunnels, and no free tier will be provided.

：NoteTencent Cloud has discontinued the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service fromDecember 31, 2022. For more information, see Migration of Direct Connect Cross-Region Tunnel Serviceto CCN. If you need cross-region tunnels, use Cloud Connect Network (CCN).
If you are an existing user of the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service, migrate yourcross-region dedicated tunnels to CCN as instructed in Migrating Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel toCCN.

For a shared dedicated tunnel created using a partner's connection, the resource occupation fee for shared
dedicated tunnel will be charged based on the specifications. For more information, see Shared dedicated tunnelfee.

Direct connect gateways
A direct connect gateway is your gateway object in Tencent Cloud, and the traffic fee will be billed.
Inbound traffic fee: traffic from your local IDC to a Tencent Cloud IDC over Direct Connect is free of charge.
Outbound traffic fee: traffic from a Tencent Cloud IDC to your local IDC over Direct Connect is charged based on
actual traffic usage. For detailed pricing, see Direct connect gateway traffic fee.

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Direct Connect is billed as follows.

Dedicated access port fee
Resource occupation fee for dedicated access port: monthly pay-as-you-go. The fee incurred in the current
month will be charged from your account between 8 and 10 AM on the first day of the next month.
Billing time: the billing starts on the day when the connection goes to Running status, and stops when theconnection is deleted on the Direct Connect console. The connection used less than one month will be billed on thebasis of valid days.
Billing formula: Total fee = (Number of valid days in the month/Number of calendar days in the month) × Monthly
price for the port.
Billable Item

Resource occupation fee (Mainland China)

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Specification

Price (USD/month)

1 GbE or below

92

10 GbE769

100 GbE

5385

1GE or below

231

10 GbE

1692

100 GbE

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Direct connect gateway traffic fee
Billing description: the direct connect gateway will be charged starting from December 1, 2020. The inboundtraffic is free of charge, while the outbound traffic billing will be accurate to MB at the price as shown below. Theoutbound traffic less than 1 MB will not be charged.
Billing object: the total outbound traffic of all direct connect gateways under a Tencent Cloud account.
Billing mode: monthly pay-as-you-go. The fee incurred in the current month will be charged from your accountbetween 8 and 10 AM on the first day of the next month.
Billing formula: Total fee = Total outbound traffic of all direct connect gateways × Unit price.

：NoteA new region-based pricing plan will be introduced on June 1, 2023 for the outbound traffic of direct connect
gateways. For more information, see Discontinuing the Free Tier of Outbound Traffic and Introducing a New
Pricing Plan.

Price (USD/GB)
Billable Item

Total Outbound Traffic

Starting fromJune 1, 2023

Inbound traffic-Free of charge

Chinese mainland

0.015

Asia

Taiwan (China), Hong Kong (China),
Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok

0.037

Mumbai0.041Outbound traffic

BeforeJune 1,2023
Free ofcharge

0.015
Jakarta

0.074

EuropeFrankfurt, Virginia, Silicon Valley,
Toronto0.018

São Paulo

0.037

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Tencent Cloud has discontinued the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service from
December 31, 2022. For more information, see Migration of Direct Connect Cross-Region Tunnel Service toCCN. If you need cross-region tunnels, use CCN.
If you are an existing user of the Direct Connect - Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel Service, migrate yourcross-region dedicated tunnels to CCN as instructed in Migrating Cross-Region Dedicated Tunnel to CCN.

Monthly 95th percentile billing
Monthly dedicated tunnel fee = number of valid days in the month / number of calendar days in the month * 95th
percentile of the monthly peak bandwidth * tiered unit price.
5-minute bandwidth value
The system collects the higher value of the inbound and outbound bandwidth on the devices every minute, andcalculates the average in the last five minutes once every five minutes. The average is recorded as the 5-minutebandwidth value.
Valid dayA valid day is a day in which at least one 5-minute bandwidth value is greater than 3 Kbps.
Proportion of valid days
Proportion of valid days = number of valid days in the month / number of calendar days in the month
95th percentile of the monthly peak bandwidth
In a calendar month, the 5-minute bandwidth values on all valid days are sorted in ascending order, and the top 5%
are removed. The highest value of the remaining sample points is used as the 95th percentile of the monthly peakbandwidth.
Tiered unit priceNon-accumulative tiered pricing.
Tiered unit prices for 95th percentile of the monthly peak bandwidth
In Chinese mainland, the pay-as-you-go billing mode applies at the price as shown below.
Specification (Mbps)

Monthly Price (USD/Mbps)[0, 10)85[10, 20)

63[20, 50)

45[50, 100)

34[100, 200)

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14[1000, 2000)

11[2000, 1000000)

10：

Note

For more information on tiered pricing, contact your Tencent Cloud rep.
Communication over the Beijing-Tianjin and Guangzhou-Shenzhen dedicated tunnels is free of charge
before December 31, 2021.

Billing example
A user uses a Guangzhou-Beijing dedicated tunnel for 14 valid days in January. The number of sample points per day
is 288, which is the result of Total duration/Statistical period (24 × 60/5). Therefore, the total number of sample points
for the 14 valid days is 4,032 (14 × 288). The bandwidth values of the 4,032 sample points are sorted in ascendingorder, and the top 5% sample points are removed. The average bandwidth value of the 3,830 sample points (4,032 ×0.95 = 3,830.4) is taken as the billable bandwidth of the month and recorded as Max95. Assume that the value ofMax95 is 15 Mbps, for which the corresponding tiered unit price is 63 USD/Mbps. The total fee is calculated asfollows: 14/31 × 15 × 63 = 426.77 USD. The fee will be deducted between 8 and 10 AM on February 1.

Shared dedicated tunnel fee
Resource occupation fee for shared dedicated tunnel: The fee is billed in pay-as-you-go mode monthly. Thefee incurred in the current month will be deducted from your account between 8 and 10 AM on the first day of thenext month.
Billing time: The billing starts on the day when the shared dedicated tunnel enters the Connected state, andstops when the tunnel is deleted in the Direct Connect console. The tunnel used less than one month will be billedon the basis of valid days.
Billing formula: Total fee = (Number of valid days in the month/Number of calendar days in the month) × Monthly
price for the shared dedicated tunnel.
Tunnelspecification

Occupation fee within Chinese mainland(USD/month)

Occupation fee outside Chinese mainland(USD/month)

50 Mbps23

23

100 Mbps

31

46

200 Mbps

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300 Mbps

4692

400 Mbps

54

120

500 Mbps

62146

1 Gbps92

231

2 Gbps169

523

5 Gbps400

1,169

8 Gbps631

1,508

10 Gbps

769

1,692

40 Gbps

2,769

5,846

100 Gbps

5,385

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Purchasing in the Console：

Last updated 2023-04-28 16:29:30
This document describes how to purchase the Tencent Cloud DC service.

Purchasing a Connection
1. Log in to the Direct Connect console.
2. Click +New on the Connections page.
3. On the New connection page, complete the fields and click OK to submit the application. Make the payment
when the application is approved.

：Note

For more details, see Applying for a Connection.

Purchasing a Dedicated Tunnel
1. Log in to the Direct Connect console.

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2. Select Dedicated Tunnels from the left sidebar.
3. Click +New on the Dedicated Tunnels page.
4. Complete fields in the pop-up and click Next.
5. Complete advanced settings and IDC device configuration.

：Note

For more details, see Applying for a Tunnel.

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Renewing Connections：

Last updated 2022-04-02 19:12:36
This document describes how to renew the connection on the Direct Connect console.

：

Note

Currently, you can only renew the connections constructed by Tencent for one year at a time. You need toperform the renewal operations several times for a multiple-year renewal.
Renew the connection before the expiration

Renewing Connection
1. Log in to the Direct Connect console.
2. Click Connection on the left sidebar to enter the connection page.
3. Select the connection to renew on the connection page and click Renew in Operations.

：NoteIf you cannot see the renewal option, please click Agree to User Agreement

4. Check the renewal information on the pop-up Confirmation page, click Confirm and complete the payment.

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