A

Amount Paid

Amount that has been paid by now in a billing cycle in the post payment mode.

Amortized Stored Value Card

Amortized stored value card amount in the current month.

Amortized Cash Coupon

Amortized cash coupon amount in the current month.

AZ

A physical region where resources use independent power supply and networks. AZs are physically isolated but interconnected through the internal network. One region has multiple AZs. If one AZ becomes faulty, the other AZs in the same region can still provide services. AZs in the same region can access each other through the intranet.

Account Adjustment

Information of your account adjustments in a billing cycle, such as arrears write-offs.

Amortized Flexi-Purchase Coupon

Amortized flexi-purchase coupon amount in the current month.

Amortized Cash

Amortized cash amount in the current month.

Amortized Credit

Amortized credit amount in the current month.

Amount

Amount that a customer should pay for used cloud services after discounts have been applied. commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and others. Amount due = Cash payments + Credit payments + Cash coupon used + Stored value card payment + Outstanding amount + Flexi-purchase coupon used.

Account Name

Account that is created upon successful registration with HUAWEI CLOUD. When your enterprise master account has been associated with multiple member accounts, you can view bill details by account.

B

Billing Mode

Billing modes include Yearly/Monthly, Pay-per-Use, and Reserved Instance.

Billing Cycle

Time frame between billings for an account. It is determined by HUAWEI CLOUD and is generally one natural month. When a billing cycle ends, the system calculates all the fees that a customer needs to pay during the billing cycle and generates a bill.

Bill

A bill is a manifestation of your service fees regularly provided by HUAWEI CLOUD. It describes the revenue and expenditures of various services and products owned and used by you.

Bill Type

Type of a bill, such as expenditure, refund, account adjustment, and others.

C

Credit Period

Time from the bill date to the due date. It is usually one calendar month.

Current Month Amortized

Amount amortized to the current month.

Cash Coupon Used

Fees that are paid using cash coupons.

Cash Amortized over Past Months

Cash amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Credit Amortized over Past Months

Credit amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Cash Coupon Amortized over Past Months

Cash coupon amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Cash Amortized over Future Months

Cash amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

Credit Amortized over Future Months

Credit amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

Cash Coupon Amortized over Future Months

Cash coupon amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

Credit Period

Time from the bill date to the due date. It is usually one calendar month.

Cash Payment

Amount that is paid by cash.

Credit Payment

Amount that is paid by credit. After the bill is generated, credit payments are included in the amount due.

D

Due Date

The final date before which customers must pay off the bill.

Discount

Discounts offered to customers when they use cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotions. The value is the discount amount based on the list price.

Discount Type

Discount type used for the expenditure.

E

Enterprise Project

The enterprise project to which the cloud resource belongs. If you have not set any enterprise projects when purchasing a cloud service resource, the default value is default. If a cloud service resource you have purchased does not support enterprise project management, it will be presented as Non-project.

End Time

Time when billing for the corresponding cloud service ends.

Expenditures

Information of your expenditures in a billing cycle, such as purchase and pay-per-use.

Expenditure Time

Time when the expenditure occurs. For yearly/monthly products, it is the time of payment, while for pay-per-use products, it is the period from the effective time to the expiration time of the resource.

F

Flexi-Purchase Coupon Amortized over Past Months

Flexi-purchase amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Future Months Amortized

Amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

Flexi-Purchase Coupon Amortized over Future Months

Flexi-purchase coupon amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

Flexi-Purchase Coupon Used

Fees that are paid using flexi-purchase coupons.

H

Huawei Arrears Write-Off

The part of outstanding amount that has been written off. It is discharged by HUAWEI CLOUD according to the arrears write-off regulations, which means the customer does not need to repay it.

I

Initial Amount Due

Amount payable in a billing cycle in the post payment mode. Initial amount due = Cash payments in the billing cycle (including expenditures only) + Credit payments in the billing cycle (including expenditures, refunds, and account adjustments) + Outstanding amount in the billing cycle.

L

List Price

The sale price of a product with no commercial discounts and promotion discounts applied on the HUAWEI CLOUD official website. List price = Discount amount + Truncated amount + Amount due.

M

Monthly Breakdown

Resource expenditures are amortized to each month based on resources, products, and usage types.

Month

The month to which the prepaid amount of a yearly/monthly resource or reserved instance is amortized based on the validity period of the order, or the month when the hourly billing of a pay-per-use resource or reserved instance occurs based on the accumulated usage (the same as the billing cycle).

Monthly settlement

When pay-per-use expenditures are settled by month, the bill will be generated on the third day of the next month.

Master Account

An enterprise master account is for customers who have enabled enterprise management. They can view expenditures of the member accounts, and can repay bills of the member accounts in post payment mode.

Member Account

An enterprise member account is for customers who have accepted the invitation from a master account.

N

Negative Amount

Amount generated when when the credit refund is greater than the credit payment. For example, if the credit refund is –¥10 and the credit payment is ¥5, the negative amount = –¥10 + ¥5 = –¥5. Negative amount is used to repay historical unsettled bills and future bills.

Net Amount

Equal to the amount due minus the amount of used cash coupons. Net amount = Amount due + Cash coupon used.

O

Order No./Transaction No.

Order No. is a unique identifier of a yearly/monthly order. Transaction No. is a unique identifier of fee deduction for expenditures in the pay-per-use mode.

Original Order No.

Unique identifier of a yearly/monthly order from which a customer has unsubscribed.

Overdue

The bill is still not paid off after the due date.

Overdue Amount

Remaining amount that should be paid off the moment when the due date arrives.

Outstanding Amount

Amount to be deducted and paid, including uncleared amount and unsettled amount.

P

Past Months Amortized

Amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Package Usage

Usage of a product or resource included in a resource package or reserved instance within a period of time. If this usage does not exceed the package quota, no extra charges are incurred.

Payment Status

The status of payment, including Paid, Unsettled (amount to be billed), and Uncleared (amount that has been billed pending deduction and payment).

R

Resource Type

Name of a cloud service. It indicates the category of the resource used for a cloud service.

Remaining Amount Due

Remaining amount payable by now in a billing cycle in the post payment mode. Remaining amount due = Initial amount due – Amount paid.

Region

Cloud service region that provides public cloud service resources independently and serves a large geographical area.

Refunds

Information of your refunds in a billing cycle, such as unsubscriptions and specification downgrades.

Resource

The specific object a customer uses via HUAWEI CLOUD, such as devices, IP addresses, and ports.

Resource ID

Unique ID of a cloud service resource.

Resource Name

User-defined name of a cloud service resource.

Resource Tag

User-defined tag of a cloud service resource.

S

Service Type

Category of a cloud service.

Stored Value Card Used

Fees that are paid using stored value cards.

Start Time

Time when billing for the corresponding cloud service starts.

Specifications

A collection of attributes and their values used to describe the features of the resource that a cloud service needs. Specifications of resources of the same type have the same attributes but different attribute values.

Stored Value Card Amortized over Past Months

Stored value card amount that has been amortized before the current month.

Stored Value Card Amortized over Future Months

Stored value card amount that has not been amortized after the current month.

T

Transaction Time

Time when the fee is deducted for an expenditure.

Transaction No.

Unique identifier of fee deduction for expenditures in the pay-per-use mode.

Truncated

In pay-per-use billing mode, amounts are accurate to two decimal places during settlement, with the third and later decimal places directly deleted.

Total Usage

To which extent a cloud service is used within a period of time, including the usage duration, used capacity, used times, and used traffic.

Total Credit Limit

Total amount granted to your credit account. It indicates the maximum credit amount offered to you within a certain period of time (generally one year) based on your payment capability.

U

Unit Price

Price of product usage, such as ¥5.

Unit

Unit of product usage price, such as GB/hour, Mbps/hour, and GB.

Usage Unit

Unit to measure the product usage.

Usage Type

Aspects from which a pay-per-use cloud service is billed, such as duration, capacity, upstream traffic, etc.

Unbilled amount

The unprocessed amount of a bill to be generated.

Uncleared amount

Amount to be deducted and paid.

Usage Type in Reserved Instances

Reserved instance usage in a specified period. If the usage does not exceed the product or reserved instance quota contained in the reserved instance package, the product and resources will not be billed separately.

W

Write-off

The outstanding amount that HUAWEI CLOUD discharges according to the arrears write-off regulations, which customers do not need to repay.