Billing

Billing Items

EVS disks are billed based on the disk type, size, and usage duration.

Billing starts: immediately after you have purchased EVS disks, regardless of whether they are attached or not.
Billing ends: after a pay-per-use disk is successfully deleted.

Billing Modes

EVS disks are billed by disk capacity on a pay-per-use basis.

Pay-per-use is a postpaid payment model. EVS disks are billed by the second and settled by the hour. For a duration of less than an hour, the payment is based on the actual duration that the service was used for.

Billing Involved in Configuration Modifications

Item	Pay-per-Use
Capacity change	EVS does not support disk capacity reduction. EVS supports disk capacity expansion. Multiple pieces of billing records will be generated within a billing cycle (an hour) when an expansion succeeded. For example, if you expand the capacity of an EVS disk from 100 GB to 200 GB at 01:30:01, two pieces of billing records will be generated in billing cycle 01:00:00-02:00:00. One is the billing record generated for the 100 GB in 01:00:00-01:30:00, and the other is the billing record generated for the 200 GB in 01:30:01-02:00:00.

Item

Pay-per-Use

Capacity change

EVS does not support disk capacity reduction.
EVS supports disk capacity expansion.

Multiple pieces of billing records will be generated within a billing cycle (an hour) when an expansion succeeded.

For example, if you expand the capacity of an EVS disk from 100 GB to 200 GB at 01:30:01, two pieces of billing records will be generated in billing cycle 01:00:00-02:00:00. One is the billing record generated for the 100 GB in 01:00:00-01:30:00, and the other is the billing record generated for the 200 GB in 01:30:01-02:00:00.

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