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Updated on 2023-12-07 GMT+08:00
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Yearly/Monthly Billing

Yearly/Monthly

DLI offers discounted resource packages that are billed based on the type of package purchased.

These packages are pre-purchased quotas of resource usage for users. If the current package quota is exceeded, the excess usage will be automatically billed on a pay-per-use basis.

Package Types and Use Cases

Table 1 Package types and use cases

Type

Description

Application Scenario

Reset Rule

Scanned data volume

You are billed based on the scanned data volume in each job, in GB.

This type of packages applies only to the default queue.

The quota included in the scanned data volume package will reset based on the subscription period.

Queue CUH

Usage is billed by the hour, with any usage less than one hour being rounded up to one hour. You are billed by CUH when submitting jobs to your self-built queues or elastic resource pools.

This type of packages is suitable for scenarios where the queue usage can be estimated or scenarios where resource consumption is low, such as test projects.

The quota included in a monthly/yearly package will reset based on the subscription period.

Elastic resource pool CUH

You are billed based the number of CUHs when running jobs on the queue you add to an elastic resource pool.

This type of packages is suitable for scenarios where the queue usage can be estimated or scenarios where resource consumption is low, such as test projects.

The included quota will reset based on the subscription period.

Storage package

Storage uses are billed based on the amount of data stored in DLI, in GB.

This type of packages is ideal for situations where table data is stored on DLI. For example, if tables from latency-sensitive services are saved on DLI, a storage package can be used to reduce storage costs.

The included quota will reset every hour.
  • Reset by subscription period: For example, if the reset period is monthly and you purchase a package on January 5, the included free resources will reset on the fifth day of each month.
  • Reset by calendar period: For example, if you purchase a package and the reset period is monthly, the included free resources will reset at 00:00:00 on the first day of each month.
  • Storage packages reset every hour based on the calendar period, while other packages reset based on the subscription period.

Constraints and Limitations

  • Packages cannot be refunded once purchased.
  • Packages are bound to specific regions and can only be used in the region they are bound to, not in other regions.
  • When billing, resources from the package are used first. Once the package's resources are exhausted, any excess usage is billed on a pay-per-use basis.
  • After a package expires, resources will not be automatically disabled and will continue to be used on a pay-per-use basis.

Billing Examples

The prices are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on DLI Pricing Details.

Suppose user A purchases a 4,000-CUH package with a validity of one month. Before the package is used up, any CUHs used by user A's compute resources will be deducted from the package.

If the package has 10 CUHs left and user A uses 16 CUHs, 10 CUHs will be deducted from the package, and the excess 6 CUHs will be billed on a pay-per-use basis.
  • Billed item 1: fee for purchasing a package
  • Billed item 2: pay-per-use fee for the excess 6 CUHs of using a queue for one hour
The following is an example of calculating the fee of a pay-per-use queue:
  • 193.8 USD/month for 4,000 CUHs
  • Unit price of the queue: 0.057 USD/hour; extra CUs: 6 CUs; duration: 1 hour

    Total fee: 193.8 + (0.057 x 6 x 1) = 194.14 USD

For more examples, see DLI Pricing Details.

Impact of Arrears

Figure 1 shows the statuses a pay-per-use DLI queue can have throughout its lifecycle. Once you purchase a DLI queue, it will be considered valid during the billing cycle as long as it operates normally. However, if your account exceeds the expenditure quota, the queue will gradually enter the grace period and retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a pay-per-use DLI resource

Arrears Reminder

The system deducts fees from your account balance for pay-per-use resources at the end of each billing cycle. You will be notified by email, SMS, or internal messages when your account exceeds the expenditure quota.

Impact of Arrears

Your resources enter the grace period and you cannot submit jobs in DLI, including SQL, Spark, and Flink jobs. You will need to pay for the fees incurred during the grace period, which you can see on the Billing & Costs > Billing Center > Overview page of the Huawei Cloud console.

If you do not bring your account balance current before the grace period expires, your resources will enter the retention period and become frozen. You cannot perform any operations on the pay-per-use resources during this period.

If you do not bring your account balance current before the retention period ends, your resource will be released and the data cannot be restored.

For details about expenditure quotas, see Expenditure Quota.

Combination of Pay-per-Use and Yearly/Monthly

DLI allows you to use yearly/monthly and pay-per-use together.

If you purchase a package, the quota included in the package is preferentially deducted when you use resources. If you exceed the package limit, you will be billed on a pay-per-use basis.

For details about pay-per-use billing, see Queues, Elastic Resource Pools, Billing for Storage Resources, and Billing for Scanned Data.