Help Center/ Elastic Cloud Server/ Billing/ Billing Termination
Updated on 2023-12-07 GMT+08:00
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Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly resource, such as a yearly/monthly ECS or EVS disk, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased subscription expires.

  • If you no longer need a resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase and on if 5-day unconditional unsubscription rules apply, Huawei Cloud may issue you a refund. For details about unsubscription rules, see Unsubscriptions.
  • If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer wish to automatically renew the subscription, disable it before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If pay-per-use resources, such as pay-per-use ECSs and EVS disks, are no longer required, delete them in a timely manner because the associated EVS disks and bandwidth are still billed even if the ECSs are already stopped.

Spot Resources

If spot resources, such as spot ECSs, are no longer required, delete them in a timely manner because the associated EVS disks and bandwidth are still billed even if the ECSs are already stopped.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way.

  1. On the top menu bar, choose > Bills.

    The Dashboard page is displayed.

  2. On the Expenditure Details page of the Billing Center, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.

    Figure 1 Copying the resource ID

  3. Log in to the console and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.

    The Elastic Cloud Server page is displayed.

  4. Select the region where the resource is located, select ECS ID and enter the copied resource ID. Click the icon to search for the resource.

    Figure 2 Searching for the resource

  5. Click More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the ECS. Ensure that the resource does not exist in the list.

    You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use or spot resource is deleted. For example, if you delete an ECS (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.