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Updated on 2024-11-04 GMT+08:00
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Billing

Billing Items

Pay-per-use billing is preset by default. You are billed based on the storage capacity that you select (instead of the used capacity) and the amount of time that you use the file system. Usage period is calculated at the top of every hour. Any usage period of less than an hour is rounded up to an hour. For details, see Table 1.

Table 1 SFS Turbo billing model

Billing Item

Billing Factor

Standard, Standard-Enhanced (Discontinued), Performance, Performance-Enhanced (Discontinued), 20 MB/s/TiB, 40 MB/s/TiB, 125 MB/s/TiB, 250 MB/s/TiB, 500 MB/s/TiB, and 1,000 MB/s/TiB

Storage space

Billing Modes

SFS Turbo supports the following billing modes: pay-per-use and yearly/monthly.

Changing Billing Mode

  • Yearly/monthly is a prepaid billing mode. You will be billed based on the subscription duration you specify. This mode provides a favorable price and is ideal when the resource use duration is predictable.
  • Pay-per-use is a postpaid billing mode. You will be billed based on the billing items of specific file systems and can purchase or delete file systems at any time. Expenditures are deducted from the account balance.

In some regions, you can change your pay-per-use SFS Turbo file systems to yearly/monthly billing. Changing from yearly/monthly billing to pay-per-use is currently not supported.

Expiration

After a yearly/monthly SFS Turbo file system expires, the system will not automatically change it to pay-per-use billing, but processes it based on the rules specified in Resource Suspension and Release. If the file system is not renewed before the retention period expires, it will be deleted.

Overdue Payment

Possible causes of overdue payment:

You have created a pay-per-use SFS Turbo file system and your account balance is not enough to pay for the generated pay-per-use charges.

Service status and operation restrictions when an account is in arrears:

Your SFS Turbo file systems are retained after your account is in arrears and the file systems enter the retention period, but you cannot use the file systems. If the outstanding payment is not cleared before the retention period ends, data stored in the file systems will be deleted and cannot be recovered.

For details about the retention period, see Service Suspension and Resource Release.