How Can I Stop an ECS from Being Billed?

• After a pay-per-use or spot ECS is stopped (excluding bare metal ECSs or ECSs with local disks or FPGAs attached), its basic resources (vCPUs, memory, image, and GPUs) will no longer be billed, but its associated resources such as EVS disks (system and data disks), EIPs, and bandwidth will continue to be billed separately.

  To stop the ECS from being billed, delete it and its associated resources.

• Spot block ECSs, pay-per-use or spot ECSs with local disks attached (such as disk-intensive, ultra-high I/O, H2, P1, and P2 ECSs), pay-per-use or spot FPGA-based ECSs (such as Fp1 and Fp1c ECSs), and pay-per-use or spot bare metal ECSs will continue to be billed after they are stopped. To prevent such ECSs from being billed, delete them and their associated resources.
• For yearly/monthly resources such as yearly/monthly ECSs or EVS disks, your pay for them when you are purchasing them. The billing automatically stops when the subscription expires. If you stop using the resource before the subscription expires, you will not be eligible for a refund.

This section uses a pay-per-use ECS as an example to describe how you are billed after the ECS is deleted. Table 1 lists the resources associated with the ECS.

After the ECS is deleted, it is billed as follows:

• ECS basic resources: no longer billed
• EVS disks
  • System disk: no longer billed
  • Data disks: no longer billed if you have selected Delete the data disks attached to the following ECSs when you were deleting the ECS. Otherwise, the data disks will continue to be billed.
• EIP: If you select Release the EIPs bound to the ECSs when deleting the ECS, the EIP will no longer be billed. Otherwise, the EIP will continue to be billed.