Overview

Introduction

CloudTable supports two billing modes: the yearly/monthly billing and the pay-per-use billing.

• In yearly/monthly mode, you pay only once when purchasing the service and no extra fees will be charged during your use of the service. After a yearly/monthly subscription expires, the resources will enter a retention period. If you want to continue using the resources, renew the subscription. For details, check the resource expiration rules.
• In pay-per-use (hourly) mode, the system settles the fees by hour. You can use CloudTable as long as your account balance is sufficient. If your account balance is insufficient, it will be in arrears. Top up your account.

Renewing a Yearly/Monthly CloudTable Instance

You can renew a yearly/monthly instance manually or automatically. For details, see Table 1.

You can renew your subscription across the life cycle of your yearly/monthly CloudTable cluster, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Cluster lifecycle

• A CloudTable instance is in the Running state after it is provisioned.
• When the subscription expires, the status will change from Running to Expired.
• If an expired CloudTable instance is not renewed, it enters a grace period. If it is not renewed by the time the grace period expires, it will be frozen and enter a retention period.
• If you do not renew your subscription after the grace period expires, your resource enters a retention period. If you do not renew the subscription within the retention period, your resource is automatically deleted.

You can enable auto-renewal any time before a CloudTable instance expires. By default, the system will make the first attempt to charge your account for the renewal at 03:00, seven days before the expiry date. If this attempt fails, it will make another attempt at 03:00 every day until the subscription is renewed or expires. Renewing resources 7 days before expiration is a default value. You can change it if needed.