vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Getting started with Event Notifications 

This tutorial brings you through the steps that you need to take before you create an IBM Cloud Event Notifications service.

Event Notifications is a routing service that provides you about critical events that occur in your IBM Cloud® account. You can filter and route event notifications from IBM Cloud services like IBM Cloud Monitoring, Security and Compliance Center, Secrets Manager, IBM Cloud Projects, and Toolchain to communication channels like email, SMS, push notifications, Huawei Cloud Push, webhook, slack, Microsoft® Teams, ServiceNow, IBM Cloud Functions, and IBM Cloud Object Storage.



 Step 1: Create an IBM Cloud account 

If you don't have an IBM Cloud account, [create one](https://cloud.ibm.com/registration).





 Step 2: Decide on a location 

Decide on a location where your service to be hosted. Currently, the following locations are supported:



* Dallas (us-south)
* London (eu-gb)
* Frankfurt (eu-de)
* Sydney (au-syd)







 Step 3: Decide on a pricing plan 

Based on your business requirements, decide on a pricing plan. Currently, the following plans are available: Lite, and Standard.



* Lite: This plan gives you unlimited ingested events, 10 topics, 2 filters per topic, 5 destinations, 20 outbound emails, 20 outbound SMSes, 20 outbound webhooks, and 1000 notifications per push destination. 10 subscriptions are allowed, and a subscription can have a maximum of 3 email recipients.
* Standard: You are charged for ingested events and for outbound digital messages. An ingested event is one that is received and filtered. If a source is connected but no filters are defined for it (that is, the source is not associated with any topic), the incoming events are dropped, and you are not charged. Outbound digital messages come in various types, and each type is priced separately.

You can use Pre-production destination, as low-cost push destination, for your development and test environments. You can change the Pre-production destination to Production destination post completion of your development and testing. This feature is only available for Standard pricing plan.
Large organizations and other users with large cloud workloads can benefit from the savings and predictable billing that are provided by subscriptions. IBM Cloud offers multiple types of subscriptions to fit your usage needs.

A subset of subscription accounts are eligible for the new Enterprise Savings Plan billing model. For more information, see [Enterprise Savings Plan billing model](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accountscommitment-model).



 Platform subscriptions 

When you purchase a subscription for the IBM Cloud platform, you get discounted credit that pays for services and other resources that you create from the [IBM Cloud catalog](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog).

Your resource usage is deducted from your total subscription amount. Even if your usage varies from month to month, you get predictable, consistent billing. If your usage exceeds your total subscription amount, you're charged the non-discounted rate for the overage. For more information about tracking your subscription usage, see [Managing subscriptions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-subscriptions).

Your subscription applies to most services in the catalog. However, some services use a specific pricing plan that requires you to purchase it separately.





 Support subscriptions 

Basic support is included with your Subscription account. If you want to enhance your support experience for production-critical resources, contact [IBM Cloud Sales](https://www.ibm.com/cloud?contactmodule) to purchase a support subscription for an Advanced or Premium support plan. With a support subscription, you commit to a monthly spending amount that goes towards your support costs.

Support subscription credit is separate from any platform or service subscription credit in your account and can't be spent on resource usage. For more information, see [How subscription credit is spent](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-subscriptionssubscription-basics).





 Service bundle subscriptions 

Service bundle subscriptions give you access and credit toward a set of services within a particular domain that are targeted for popular use cases.
Managing subscriptions 

With an IBM Cloud® subscription, you get discounted usage for platform services and support by committing to a minimum spending commitment for a certain period of time. You can buy your first subscription, add more subscriptions, and monitor subscription usage on the Subscriptions page in the IBM Cloud console.

If you buy a subscription, your account is converted to a Subscription account type. For more details about other benefits of Subscription accounts, see [Account types](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts).



 How subscription credit is spent 

Subscriptions can provide the following two types of credit, which are divided into separate pools:



* Credit from platform subscriptions that pays for resource usage
* Credit from support subscriptions that pays for support costs



Each platform or support subscription is purchased for a given credit amount and duration. If the subscription duration is more than a year, the subscription is separated into terms of up to one year each. Each term has distinct start dates, end dates, and available credit. You can use the available credit at any point during the term, but credit doesn't roll over to any following terms in the subscription. You can get extra flexibility to use credit from terms that haven't yet started by paying up-front for the entire subscription rather than using monthly, quarterly, or another recurring billing cadence. If your usage exceeds your available credit, the extra usage is billed as overage at the non-discounted rate.

For example, say that you buy an IBM Cloud platform subscription for $1,000 a month for two years, and the subscription starts 1 July 2019. The subscription is divided into two terms that each contain $12,000 of credit, with one term valid from 1 July 2019 through 30 June 2020, and the next term valid from 1 July 2020 through 30 June 2021. You can use the $12,000 credit of the first term at any time during its one-year period, whether it's $6,500 the first month and $500 a month afterward or $1,000 each month. If you spend $13,000 during that time period and don't have any other active subscriptions, the extra $1,000 is billed as overage.
Billing 

Information on pricing can be found at [IBM Cloud®](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage/pricing/).



 Invoices 

Find your account invoices at Manage > Billing and Usage in the navigation menu.

Under a Standard plan, service instance receives a single bill. If you need separate billing for different sets of buckets, then creating multiple instances is necessary.

For each storage class, billing is based on aggregated usage across all buckets at the instance level. For example, for Smart Tier, the billing is based on usage across all Smart Tier buckets in a given instance - not on the individual buckets.





 IBM Cloud Object Storage pricing 

Storage costs for IBM Cloud® Object Storage are determined by the average monthly stored volume of data, the amount of public outbound bandwidth used, and the total number of operational requests processed by the system.

Infrastructure offerings are connected to a three-tiered network, segmenting public, private, and management traffic. Infrastructure services can transfer data between one another across the private network at no cost. Infrastructure offerings (such as bare metal servers, virtual servers, and cloud storage) connect to other applications and services in the IBM Cloud Platform catalog (such as Watson services and Cloud Foundry runtimes) across the public network, so data transfer between those two types of offerings is metered and charged at standard public network bandwidth rates.





 Request classes 

'Class A' requests involve modification or listing. This category includes creating buckets, uploading or copying objects, creating or changing configurations, listing buckets, and listing the contents of buckets.

'Class B' requests are related to retrieving objects or their associated metadata or configurations from the system.

Deleting buckets or objects from the system does not incur a charge. For charges related to Multiple Deletes, see [Delete multiple objects](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-object-operationsobject-operations-multidelete).



Table 1. Request classes

 Class Requests Examples
Understanding costs for your clusters 

With IBM Cloud®, you can plan for, estimate, review, and modify your cluster environment to control costs. Just by using a managed service like Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud®, you are saving many expenses that are associated with managing, updating, and maintaining an infrastructure environment.



 Understanding costs by component 

With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters, you can use IBM Cloud infrastructure compute, networking, and storage resources with platform services such as Watson AI or Compose Database-as-a-Service. Each resource might entail its own charges that can be [fixed, metered, tiered, or reserved](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-chargescharges) and billed by various incremental rates such as monthly or hourly.

Monthly resources are billed based on the first of the month for usage in the preceding month. If you order a monthly resource in the middle of the month, you are charged a prorated amount for that month. However, if you cancel a resource in the middle of the month, you are still charged the full amount for the monthly resource.



 Worker nodes 

Clusters can have two main types of worker nodes: virtual or physical (bare metal) machines. Flavor (machine type) availability and pricing varies by the zone that you deploy your cluster to.

When do worker nodes begin to incur charges?**
: Worker nodes begin to incur charges after they complete the provisioning state and continue until you delete the worker nodes and they complete the deleting state. For more information, see [Worker node states](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-health-monitorstates).





 What is the difference between virtual and physical machines? 

Virtual machines feature greater flexibility, quicker provisioning times, and more automatic scalability features than bare metal, at a more cost-effective price than bare-metal. However, VMs have a performance tradeoff when compared to bare metal specs, such as networking Gbps, RAM and memory thresholds, and storage options. Keep in mind these factors that impact your VM costs.
Understanding costs for your clusters 

With IBM Cloud®, you can plan for, estimate, review, and modify your cluster environment to control costs. Just by using a managed service like IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service, you are saving many expenses that are associated with managing, updating, and maintaining an infrastructure environment.



 Understanding costs by component 

With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service clusters, you can use IBM Cloud infrastructure compute, networking, and storage resources with platform services such as Watson AI or Compose Database-as-a-Service. Each resource might entail its own charges that can be [fixed, metered, tiered, or reserved](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-chargescharges) and billed by various incremental rates such as monthly or hourly.

Monthly resources are billed based on the first of the month for usage in the preceding month. If you order a monthly resource in the middle of the month, you are charged a prorated amount for that month. However, if you cancel a resource in the middle of the month, you are still charged the full amount for the monthly resource.



 Worker nodes 

Clusters can have two main types of worker nodes: virtual or physical (bare metal) machines. Flavor (machine type) availability and pricing varies by the zone that you deploy your cluster to.

When do worker nodes begin to incur charges?**
: Worker nodes begin to incur charges after they complete the provisioning state and continue until you delete the worker nodes and they complete the deleting state. For more information, see [Worker node states](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-health-monitorstates).





 What is the difference between virtual and physical machines? 

Virtual machines feature greater flexibility, quicker provisioning times, and more automatic scalability features than bare metal, at a more cost-effective price than bare-metal. However, VMs have a performance tradeoff when compared to bare metal specs, such as networking Gbps, RAM and memory thresholds, and storage options. Keep in mind these factors that impact your VM costs.
FAQs for App Configuration - usage and billing 

FAQs for App Configuration provides answers to common questions about App Configuration.



 How to create an App Configuration instance? 



1. Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
2. In the IBM Cloud catalog, search App Configuration and select App Configuration. The service configuration screen opens.
3. In the Create tab, select the location that represents the geographic area (Region) where you want to provision your instance.
4. Select a Pricing plan.
5. Configure your resource by providing a Service name for your instance, or use the preset name.
6. Select a Resource group.
7. Optional: Add Tags to help you to identify and organize the instance in your account. If your tags are billing related, consider writing tags as key: value pairs to help group-related tags, such as costctr: 124.
8. Optional: Add Access management tags that helps you apply flexible access policies on specific resources.
9. Accept the licensing agreements and terms by clicking the checkbox.
10. Click Create. A new service instance is created and the App Configuration service console displayed.







 What pricing plans are available with App Configuration? 

App Configuration has three pricing plans:



Table 1. Pricing plans

 Plan Inclusions Capabilities 

 Lite This plan is a free evaluation plan that includes 10 active entity IDs and 5,000 API calls. <br>Lite plan services are deleted after 30 days of inactivity. Includes all App Configuration capabilities for evaluation only. Not to be used for production. 
 Standard The monthly instance price includes 1000 active entity IDs and 100,000 API calls. This plan includes feature flags in addition to the property management capabilities. 
 Enterprise The monthly instance price includes 10,000 active entity IDs and 1,000,000 API calls. This plan includes percentage rollout and targeting segments in addition to property management and feature flags that are found in the Standard plan. 







 What are the charges to use App Configuration? 

The fundamental pricing metrics for App Configuration are Application Instance, Active Entity ID, and API Call.
Pricing 

IBM Cloud Satellite provides a convenient way for you to consume IBM Cloud services in any location that you want, with visibility across your locations.

Flexible consumption
: No charges are incurred for hosts that are attached to a location, but not assigned to a resource. You can have as many hosts waiting in your location without being charged for future growth. As soon as you unassign a host from a resource, you are no longer charged for that host. Keep in mind that hosts might be automatically assigned to services, depending on your setup.

Application and networking capabilities at no additional charge
: You do not have separate charges for Satellite management capabilities for the locations, hosts, such as endpoints, configuration versions and subscriptions, or other Satellite resources.



 Satellite locations 

Review the following table for pricing details. For more information, see the detailed [Pricing model](https://cloud.ibm.com/satellite/overview)



Satellite location control plane charges.

 Type of charge Locations created after 15 November 2022 Locations created before 15 November 2022 What the charge covers 

 Location management fee A flat monthly fee for the location, charged hourly. Per vCPU hour of the hosts that are attached to the location. The benefits of IBM Cloud Satellite, such as to create the cluster on any compatible infrastructure that you want; tooling to consistently deploy apps, storage drivers, and endpoints across the location; integration with IBM Cloud platform tooling such as IAM; continuous monitoring by IBM Site Reliability Engineers; access to IBM Cloud support; and more. 
 Infrastructure fee Varies by provider Varies by provider The underlying infrastructure that you bring to Satellite is your own, and might have its own charges. Consult your infrastructure provider for more details, such as about the storage, compute, and networking of the hosts in a cloud or on-prem environment. 







 Satellite-enabled IBM Cloud services 

Each IBM Cloud service instance that you create in your Satellite location incurs charges. For more information, see [Supported Satellite-enabled IBM Cloud services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-managed-services).





 Can I estimate my costs? 

When you create a resource such as a location or cluster, you can review a cost estimate in the Summary pane of the console.
For more information, see [Pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-sat-pricing).
* Can I estimate my costs?

When you create a resource such as a location or cluster, you can review a cost estimate in the Summary pane of the console. For other types of estimates, see [Estimating your costs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-costcost).

Keep in mind that some charges are not reflected in the estimate, such as the costs for your underlying infrastructure.
* Can I view and control my current usage?

See [View your usage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-viewingusageviewingusage) and [Set spending notifications](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/billing-usage?topic=billing-usage-spending) for general IBM Cloud account guidance.
* What are the terms of the service level agreement?

See the [IBM Cloud terms of service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-slas) and the [Satellite additional service description](http://www.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/bm-8913-01).

Satellite Infrastructure Service is IBM-operated and as such, is covered in the IBM Cloud Satellite cloud service terms with additional information outlined in the [IBM Cloud Additional Services Description](http://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=i126-8979).
* What compliance standards does the service meet?

IBM Cloud is built by following many data, finance, health, insurance, privacy, security, technology, and other international compliance standards. For more information, see [IBM Cloud compliance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-compliance).
Defining your pricing plan 

When you onboard your service to IBM Cloud®, you must define a pricing plan. If you have detailed knowledge about how you want to charge users for your service, you can provide that information in your plan. However, you can start by enabling a free plan, and then set up a paid plan later if your needs change. Currently, IBM Cloud supports free and paid usage-based pricing plans.



 Before you begin 

Before you submit a pricing plan for approval, you must sign the required agreements, documentation, and provide the Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) and United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) that applies to your product. The prerequisites might differ depending on whether you have a free or usage-based pricing plan.

For free plans:



* Provide the ECCN that applies to your product.
* Provide the UNSPSC that applies to your product.
* Confirm the digital platform agreement.



For paid, usage-based plans:



* Provide the ECCN that applies to your product.
* Provide the UNSPSC that applies to your product.
* Submit your tax and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) information for paid plans to set up and receive payment disbursements for usage.
* Confirm the digital platform reseller agreement.



Depending on the type of plan you're adding, complete each prerequisite by using the following instructions.



 Submitting tax and EFT forms 

For services that you offer on IBM Cloud with a paid, usage-based pricing plan, you receive disbursements based on the usage in accordance with your pricing structure. To receive disbursements, you must complete and submit the EFT form and tax documentation.

To provide tax and EFT information, complete the following steps:



1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon ![Navigation Menu icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/ff5860bfede49db3197c4bbba7f7123769bdc068/icons/icon_hamburger.svg) > Partner Center > Sell > Payments to me.
2. Download the relevant EFT form, and complete it.
Object Storage 

You can extend the functionality of your IBM Cloud® Functions app by integrating with an IBM Cloud® Object Storage instance.

Before you begin



* To learn about IBM Cloud Object Storage, see the [Getting started tutorial](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-getting-started-cloud-object-storage).
* For more information about setting up the IBM Cloud Object Storage instance, see [Provision an instance IBM Cloud Object Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage/basics?topic=cloud-object-storage-gs-devgs-dev-provision).





 Packages for Object Storage 

Review the following table for a list of Cloud Functions packages that you can use to work with your IBM Cloud Object Storage entities.



Table 1. Cloud functions packages that you can use to work with your Object storage entities

 Package Availability Description 

 [IBM Cloud Object Storage trigger](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openwhisk?topic=openwhisk-pkg_obstoragepkg_obstorage_ev) Pre-installed The IBM Cloud Object Storage trigger [listens for changes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openwhisk?topic=openwhisk-pkg_obstoragepkg_obstorage_ev) to an IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket. 
 [IBM Cloud Object Storage package](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openwhisk?topic=openwhisk-pkg_obstoragepkg_obstorage_install) Installable You can use the installable cloud-object-storage package to [read, write, and delete](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openwhisk?topic=openwhisk-pkg_obstoragepkg_obstorage_install) from an IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket. 







 Setting up the IBM Cloud Object Storage trigger 

With the IBM Cloud Object Storage trigger, you can listen for changes to GPS street data stored in an IBM Cloud Object Storage bucket.