Viewing Bills

Billing Generation

After yearly/monthly resources are paid, a bill is reported to the billing system for settlement.

The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. Pay-per-use resources can be settled by hour, day, or month based on usage type.

Pay-per-use CloudTable clusters are settled by hour and you are not charged immediately after a record is generated.

Viewing Bills of a Specified Resource

1. Choose Analytics > CloudTable Service to access the CloudTable console.
2. Copy the cluster name on the cluster list page.
3. Hover over Billing in the upper part of the console and choose Bills from the drop-down list.
4. Hover over Billing and choose Bills. Click Transactions and Detailed Bills and click Bill Details. On the displayed page, select Resource Name/ID in the Sort By area, enter the copied instance name to search for the bill of the resource.
   Figure 1 Bill details
   

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that a user purchased a pay-per-use CloudTable cluster at 14:20:00 on July 24, 2023 and deleted it at 15:20:00 on July 24, 2023 and the cluster specifications were as follows:

• Doris cluster transaction bill

  In pay-per-use billing mode, CloudTable is billed by the second and the bill is settled hourly. You can check the information about each billing period in the transaction bill. For details, see Table 2.

  Table 2 Doris cluster transaction bill

  Item	Description
  Product	Doris cluster
  Billing mode	Pay-per-use
  Expenditure time	From July 24, 2023, 14:20:00 to July 24, 2023, 15:20:00, the billing system generates transaction bills for each billing cycle. July 24, 2023, 14:20:00–July 24, 2023, 15:00:00 July 24, 2023, 15:00:00–July 24, 2023, 16:00:00
  List price	List price = Usage x Unit price x Capacity In this example, the Doris cluster was used for 2,400 seconds in the first period.
  Discounted amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Truncated amount	Huawei Cloud bills a resource with the price (USD) accurate to the eighth decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the second decimal place, while the third and subsequent decimal places are referred to as the truncated amount.
  Amount	Amount due = List price – Discounted amount – Truncated amount

• Doris cluster detailed bill

  Hover over Billing in the upper part of the console and choose Bills from the drop-down list. On the Overview page that is displayed, choose Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills. In the Bill Details tab, you can view bill details from multiple dimensions. For details, see Table 3.

  Table 3 Doris cluster detailed bill

  Item	Description
  Product	Doris cluster
  Billing mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource name/ID	Name/ID of the CloudTable cluster
  Specification	You can check Table 1 for more details.
  Usage type	In pay-per-use billing, the usage type is Required Duration.
  Price unit	In the pay-per-use billing mode, the unit price is provided only when the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing.
  Usage	USD/GB/hour, which is found on the console.
  Usage unit	The usage is displayed by the unit price, which is USD/GB/hour for Doris. The usage is measured by hour.
  List price	List price = Usage x Unit price x Capacity
  Discounted amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Amount due	Amount due = List price – Discounted amount – Truncated amount