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Pay-per-Use Billing

Updated on 2025-07-03 GMT+08:00

Pay-per-use billing means you pay nothing up front and are not tied into any contract or commitment. This section describes the billing rules of a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance.

Application Scenarios

Pay-per-use billing is good for short-term, bursty, or unpredictable workloads that cannot tolerate any interruptions, such as applications for e-commerce flash sales, temporary testing, and scientific computing.

Billing Items

You are billed for the following items on a pay-per-use basis.

Table 1 Items billed on a pay-per-use basis

Billing Item

Description

Instance specifications

vCPUs and memory

Storage

Instance storage space, which is billed hourly on a pay-per-use basis.

Backup storage

GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible API provides free backup storage equal to the amount of storage you purchased.

After the free backup storage is used up, additional usage will incur bills based on the backup storage pricing details. These fees are settled by the hour. If it has been used less than one hour, you will be billed based on the actual duration.

(Optional) Public network bandwidth

You will be billed for the bandwidth when accessing GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instances over a public network. Accessing the instances over a private network will not be billed.

Assume that you want to buy a three-node GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory, and 500 GB of storage. At the bottom of the page for buying an instance, price details (excluding the backup storage fee) will be displayed.

Figure 1 Example price

The price includes:

  • Instance specifications (including vCPUs and memory)
  • Selected storage space
NOTE:

The backup space fee is not included. For details about the backup price, see Product Pricing Details.

Billing Cycle

A pay-per-use instance is billed by the second and settled on the hour (GMT+8). The billing starts when the instance is created and ends when it is deleted.

NOTE:

It takes a certain time to create an instance. The billing starts from the time when the instance is successfully created. You can view the two time points on the Basic Information page. You can view the time when the instance is created beside the Created field.

For example, if you buy a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance at 8:45:30 and delete it at 8:55:00, you are billed for the 600 seconds from 8:45:30 to 8:55:30. The billing items include compute resources (vCPUs and nodes), storage, and backup storage.

Billing Examples

Assume that you bought a pay-per-use 3-node instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory, 100 GB of storage, and 110 GB of backup storage (100 GB for free) at 09:59:30 on April 18 and deleted the instance at 10:45:46 on April 18, 2023. The billing items include compute resources (vCPUs and nodes) and storage.

  • Usage of 30 seconds from 9:59:30 to 10:00:00
  • Usage of 2,746 seconds from 10:00:00 to 10:45:46
    • The free backup storage is used from 10:00:00 to 10:45:00.
    • 10 GB of backup storage is billed for 46 seconds from 10:45:00 to 10:45:46.

You will be billed for each billing cycle. Resources of the GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance are billed separately. The price per hour is shown in the pricing details. To calculate the price per second, divide it by 3,600.

Table 2 Billing formulas

Resource

Formula

Unit Price

Compute resources (including vCPUs and nodes)

Unit price of instance specifications x Required duration

See the estimated price of a cluster instance in GeminiDB Price Calculator.

Storage

Storage unit price x Required duration

See the estimated price of a cluster instance with specified storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator.

Backup storage

Backup storage unit price x Required duration x (Backup storage – Storage) (GB)

NOTE:

The billed duration refers to the length of time the billed backup storage was used for.

See the estimated price of a cluster instance with specified backup storage in GeminiDB Price Calculator.

Public network traffic

Tiered billing by fixed bandwidth

  • 0 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s (included): billed at a fixed unit price per Mbit/s
  • Greater than 5 Mbit/s: billed at a different price per Mbit/s

For details, see the estimated bandwidth price in ECS Price Calculator or EIP Price Calculator.

Figure 2 shows how the total price is calculated.

NOTICE:

The prices in the following figure are for reference only. For the actual prices, see GeminiDB Price Calculator.

For pay-per-use billing, decimal numerals on the price calculator are rounded off and are accurate to two decimal places. If the rounded price falls below USD0.01, it will be shown as USD0.01.

Figure 2 Billing example of a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance

Impact on Billing After Specification Changes

If you change the specifications of a pay-per-use instance, the original order will become invalid and a new order will be placed. You will be billed based on the new specifications.

If you change instance specifications within a given hour, multiple records will be generated. Different records record the billing for different specifications.

For example, if you buy a pay-per-use instance with 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory at 9:00:00 and upgraded it to 4 vCPUs and 16 GB memory at 9:30:00, two billing records are generated between 9:00:00 and 10:00:00:

  • 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory from 9:00:00 to 9:30:00
  • 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory from 9:30:00 to 10:00:00

Impact of Arrears

Figure 3 shows the statuses of a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance. After you buy a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance, it is valid within the billing cycle. If your account falls into arrears because of automatic fee deduction, it will transition into a grace period followed by a retention period.

Figure 3 Lifecycle of a pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance

Arrears reminder

The system will bill you for pay-per-use resources after each billing cycle ends. If your account goes into arrears, the system will send an email, SMS message, or in-app message to the one who created the Huawei Cloud account.

Impact

When your account falls into arrears due to automatic fee deduction for the pay-per-use GeminiDB DynamoDB-Compatible instance, your account will be marked as in arrears, and the instance will enter the grace period. After you top up your account, Huawei Cloud will bill you for expenditures generated during the grace period. You can view the charges on the Billing Center > Overview page.

If you do not pay the arrears within the grace period, your instance enters the retention period and its status changes to Frozen. You cannot perform any operations on the instance in the retention period.

If you do not pay the arrears within the retention period, your instance will be released, and data will be lost.

NOTE:
  • During the retention period, you cannot access or use your instance but the data stored in it can be retained. The retention period for Huawei Cloud International website is 15 days.
  • During the grace period, you can access and use only some resources of your instance. The grace period for Huawei Cloud International website is 15 days.

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