Order types

On AliCloud, there is one order type: bring-your-own-license (BYOL).

BYOL offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series) licensing. Subscription is month-based whereas PAYG is hour-based. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and the publicly available price list, which is updated quarterly, lists prices. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

For all order types, cloud vendors charge separately for resource consumption on computing instances, storage, and so on, without use of software running on top of it (in this case the FortiGate-VM).

For BYOL, you typically order a combination of products and services including support entitlement. S-series SKUs contain the VM base and service bundle entitlements for easier ordering. To proceed with licensing a BYOL deployment, see Creating a support account.