Pay-Per-Use Pricing
Concept
A postpaid billing mode in which an ECS will be billed based on usage frequency and duration. The system generates bills every hour based on usage frequency and duration and deducts fees from the account balance. A pay-per-use ECS can be provisioned and deleted at any time.
If a pay-per-use ECS is stopped and then restarted, the startup may fail due to insufficient resources. In such a case, wait several minutes before attempting another restart or change the ECS flavor.
Applicable Resources
Resources billed in pay-per-use payments include:
- ECSs, including their vCPUs and memory
- Images, including Marketplace images as well as shared or customized images based on Marketplace images
- EVS disks, including the system disk and data disks, purchased with a pay-per-use ECS
- Bandwidth purchased with a pay-per-use ECS
To learn ECS configuration prices, see Price Calculator.
Resources Still Billed After the ECS Is Stopped
After a pay-per-use ECS is stopped, basic resources including vCPUs, memory, and image are not billed, but its system disk is billed based on the capacity you use. The resources associated with the ECS, such as EVS disks, EIP, and bandwidth, are separately billed.
If a pay-per-use ECS is stopped and then restarted, the startup may fail due to insufficient resources. In such a case, wait several minutes before attempting another restart or change the ECS flavor.
However, this function does not apply to the ECSs using local storage (such as disk-intensive, ultra-high I/O, H2, P1, or P2 ECSs) or FPGAs (such as FP1 or FP1C ECSs). Charges will continue to be incurred for the ECSs even after they are stopped. To stop billing such an ECS, delete it.
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