Yearly/Monthly Billing

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice for the following types of workloads:

• Long-term workloads with stable resource requirements, such as official websites, online malls, and blogs.
• Long-term projects, such as scientific research projects and large-scale events.
• Workloads with high data security requirements.

Billed Items

Service mesh scale (maximum number of pods managed by a service mesh)

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly service mesh is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts when you successfully created a service mesh or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-month service mesh on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billed usage period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased a service mesh on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

• March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59
• April 08, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 08, 2023, 23:59:59

You will be billed for both usage periods.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 1 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly service mesh can have throughout its lifecycle. After a service mesh is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the service mesh is not renewed after it expires, before being released, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly service mesh

Expiration Alert

The system will send you an alert (by email, SMS, or in-app message) 7 days before a yearly/monthly service mesh expires to remind you to renew the subscription.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly service mesh is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period. Some operations (such as updating and upgrading a service mesh) are restricted.

If the yearly/monthly service mesh is not renewed after the grace period ends, it turns to Frozen and enters a retention period. During the retention period, you cannot perform any operations on the service mesh.

If the yearly/monthly service mesh is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, its resources will be released and data cannot be restored.

• For details about renewal, see Overview.
• If yearly/monthly resources have expired and are not renewed, Huawei Cloud provides a period of time during which you can renew or top up your accounts. For details, see What Is a Grace Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?What Is a Retention Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?
• For details about top-up, see Topping Up an Account.