Yearly/Monthly Billing

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice for the following types of workloads:

• Long-term workloads with stable resource requirements, such as official websites, online malls, and blogs.
• Long-term projects, such as scientific research projects and large-scale events.
• Workloads with predictable traffic bursts, for example, e-commerce promotions or festivals.
• Workloads with high data security requirements

Billed Item

Cloud connections are free. To enable high-quality communication across regions, you need to purchase yearly/monthly bandwidth packages. If your VPCs are in the same region, there is no need to buy a bandwidth package.

Bandwidth packages are billed by the term your purchase.

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly bandwidth package is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-month bandwidth package on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billed usage period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Example

You will be billed for both usage periods. Table 2 shows the billing formula.

shows how the total price is calculated.

Price Change After Specification Change

If the specifications of a yearly/monthly bandwidth package no longer meet your needs, you can change the specifications on the console. The system will recalculate the price and either bill or refund you the difference.

• If you upgrade the bandwidth package, you need to pay the difference in price.
• If you downgrade the bandwidth package, Huawei Cloud will refund you the difference.

For more information, see Pricing of a Changed Specification.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 1 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly bandwidth package can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a bandwidth package is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the bandwidth package is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly bandwidth package

Expiration Reminder

The system will send you a reminder (by email, SMS, or in-app message) 7 days before a yearly/monthly bandwidth package expires to remind you to renew the subscription.

Impact of Expiration

• Grace period

  If the yearly/monthly bandwidth package is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period.

• Retention period

  If the yearly/monthly bandwidth package is not renewed after the grace period ends, its status turns to Frozen and it enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on the bandwidth package while it is in the retention period.

• Permanent release

  If the yearly/monthly bandwidth package is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, the bandwidth package will be released and data cannot be restored.

NOTE:

• For details about renewals, see Overview.