Stopping Billing

Pay-per-Use Load Balancers

If a pay-per-use load balancer is no longer needed, delete it to stop billing.

Searching for Load Balancers from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify.

Search for the billed load balancer by ID.

1. Go to the Billing Center > Expenditure Details page.
2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the load balancer ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the load balancer ID
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance from the service list.

   The load balancer list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the resource is located, choose ID from the drop-down list and enter the copied resource ID. Click the icon to search for the resource.
   Figure 2 Searching for the load balancer
   

5. Choose More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the load balancer and check that it no longer appears in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use load balancer is deleted. For example, if you delete a load balancer (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.

Search for the load balancer by name.

1. Go to the Billing Center > Expenditure Details page.
2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the load balancer name.
   Figure 3 Copying the load balancer name
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance from the service list.

   The load balancer list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the load balancer is located, choose Name from the drop-down list and enter the copied name. Click the icon to search for the resource.
   Figure 4 Searching for the load balancer
   

5. Choose More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the load balancer and check that it no longer appears in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use load balancer is deleted. For example, if you delete a load balancer (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.