Pay-per-Use Billing

Pay-per-use allows you to use resources before paying for them. It is recommended when you do not want to pay in advance or do not need the resources for long. This section describes the per-pay-use billing rules of APM.

Application Scenario

Pay-per-use is suitable for applications or services that cannot be interrupted when facing temporary or sudden traffic increases or unpredictable demands, such as e-commerce flash sales, testing, and scientific computing.

Application Scope

**Table 1** Application scope
Region	Edition	Billing Mode
AP-Singapore LA-Sao Paulo1 CN-Hong Kong	Enterprise	Pay-per-use
-	Free	Free of charge

Billing Cycle

The system settles the usage-based fees generated on the previous day at a fixed time every day. It generates a bill for the previous day from 13:00 to 22:00 every day, sends the bill to you, and automatically deducts the fees from your account balance. The settlement time varies depending on actual situations. Pay-per-use resources are settled every day (UTC +08:00).

Arrears Impact

Arrears Alert

The system will deduct fees 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 is in arrears.

Arrears Impact

If your account is insufficient to pay your amount, your account goes into arrears. However, your resources will not be stopped immediately; instead, they enter the grace period. 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. Huawei Cloud will automatically deduct this amount when you top up.

If you do not pay the arrears within the grace period, 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 pay the arrears after the retention period expires, your resources will be released and deleted, and their data cannot be restored.