Subscription usage and billing

Understand your subscription and its features. Learn how to manage your storage usage, transfer volume, and egress, and how your billing reflects your usage.

Understanding your subscription usage and billing
The Subscription Management page shows your actual historical, monthly, and cumulative usage as reflected on your bill. Use this data to monitor usage, identify usage patterns, control budget, project expenses, and reconcile billing statements.
Feature and usage tiers
IBM Aspera on Cloud customers can select from among several editions when subscribing to the service. All subscription pricing is based on the volume of data transferred using the service.
Try Aspera on Cloud for free
You can try Aspera on Cloud for free. You can use your Aspera on Cloud trial for 14 days or for 50 Gb of transfer volume, whichever happens first. Your trial subscription is the Standard Plus edition; you can change to a different edition when you convert to a paid subscription if you wish; note that some features are not available in the Essentials and Pay/Go editions.
Manage transfer volume in your subscription
This value measures the volume of all transfers into and out of storage when you use an entitlement-enabled Aspera transfer server.
Manage egress in your subscription
Egress is the fee that a cloud provider charges when you move data out of their cloud. When you download data directly from your cloud storage, your storage provider bills you for egress directly. When you use Aspera on Cloud to download from cloud storage, the cloud provider charges IBM Aspera for egress; IBM Aspera then passes these egress charges on to your subscription.
Manage storage in your subscription
Each AoC subscription includes storage in IBM Cloud—this storage is built in to your AoC subscription. "Storage" is the volume of your data in your built-in IBM Cloud storage each month.
Required configuration for your tethered node
When you tether (or attach) your own Aspera HSTS node or cluster to Aspera on Cloud, you must configure it specifically for monitoring in the Activity app and for usage metering on your subscription. This procedure is not required when you attach your own existing cloud storage.

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