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Billing

Billing Items

CSS bills you for your selected instance specifications and usage duration.

Table 1 CSS billing

Billing Item

Description

Node instance

Involves the instance type and specifications (vCPUs and memory), required duration, and number of purchased instances. Available billing modes for the node instance are as follows: pay-per-use and discount package.

Node storage

Specifies the disk type. You can select disks of a type based on your business scenario. The billing standard varies depending on the disk type.

Currently, CSS supports pay-per-use and discount package billing modes.

CSS provides the following types of disks:

  • Common I/O
  • High I/O
  • Ultra-High I/O

Bandwidth

Specifies the bandwidth. When you enable the public IP address function for a cluster, you will be billed for the bandwidth.

Currently, CSS supports pay-per-use and discount package billing modes.

CSS provides the following types of bandwidth:

  • Low bandwidth (1 to 5 Mbit/s)
  • High bandwidth (6 to 2,000 Mbit/s)

The billing automatically falls into low or high bandwidth based on the bandwidth you select.

Billing Modes

  • Pay-per-use

    In pay-per-use mode, you are billed for a full hour even though you use CSS for less than 1 hour. You can enable or disable CSS as you like.

    After you register an account with HUAWEI CLOUD, switch to the Top Up page and recharge your account. Then you can purchase CSS clusters and use them in pay-per-use mode. For details about how to purchase a cluster, see Creating a Cluster in the Cloud Search Service User Guide.

  • Reserved instance

    Reserved instance pricing: You can pay a portion of the total cost and then pay the remainder of the cost later according to the resource usage.

  • Discount package

    After you subscribe to a discount package, fees are deducted from the package quota. Fees beyond the quota are billed in pay-per-use mode.

    Yearly/Monthly payment provides a larger discount than pay-per-use and is recommended for long-term users.

    • The discount package is billed as a one-off fee and takes effect immediately after purchase. Currently, you cannot specify the date when the resource package takes effect.
    • Within the validity period of your purchased discount package, the system deducts the quota from the discount package first. You are billed for the amount exceeding the upper limit.
    • Discount packages are bound to specific regions and node specifications. Your purchased discount packages can be used only in the corresponding regions and on nodes of specific specifications.
    • Discount packages are bound to specific regions and node storage. Your purchased discount packages can be used only in the corresponding regions and on nodes of specific storage capacity.
    • Discount packages are bound to specific regions and node bandwidth. Your purchased discount packages can be used only in the corresponding regions and on nodes of specific bandwidth.

Changing the Billing Mode

CSS provides multiple node instance specifications. You can choose a certain number of node instances of specific specifications to suit your business needs. You can configure the node storage capacity within the configurable range based on the site requirements.

  • Billing for scaling-out

    If the existing cluster adopts the pay-per-use billing mode, the new nodes and node storage added to the cluster will also be billed by the pay-per-use billing mode by default.

    If you choose the discount package billing mode for the existing nodes or node storage in a cluster, then newly added nodes and node storage will share the remaining available duration in the discount package that you purchase. To avoid impact on the usage of the existing nodes and node storage, you are advised to purchase a new discount package for the newly added nodes and node storage, which provides a required duration equal to the remaining available duration in the current discount package and accommodates the same node specifications as those of existing nodes.

  • Billing for modifying node specifications

    After node specifications are modified, nodes are billed based on new node specifications.

After a cluster starts, you can add new nodes to it, or modify the node specifications. For details, see section Modifying Specifications in the Cloud Search Service User Guide.

Renewal

You can renew a resource package upon its expiration, or you can set auto-renewal rules for a resource package. For more information about renewing resource packages, see Renewal Management.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

If your account is in arrears, you can view the arrears details in the Billing Center. To prevent related resources from being stopped or released, you need to top up your account within the specified period. For details, see Repaying Arrears.