Billing Mode

Application Scenario

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 predictable traffic bursts, for example, e-commerce promotions or festivals
• Workloads with high data security requirements

Billed Items

Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas provides three instance editions: basic, professional, and enterprise.

• Basic: supports professional large screen development based on templates and basic widgets.
• Professional: provides advanced, customizable widgets to precisely restore design drafts.
• Enterprise: applies to 3D development.

Billing Cycle

A yearly/monthly Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas resource is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription (precise to seconds), and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas instance for one month on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billing period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Impact on Billing After Specification Change

If the current yearly or monthly Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas edition does not meet your needs, upgrade the specifications via the console. The system will charge you based on the following rules:

If you upgrade your edition, you need to pay the difference in price.

Upgrade fee = Price of the new edition × Remaining duration – Price of the old edition that is not upgraded × Remaining duration

Example of calculating the remaining duration:

If you purchased a 3-year subscription (November 01, 2023 to November 01, 2026) and changed its edition on May 01, 2024, then the remaining duration would be as follows: Remaining duration in 2024 + Remaining duration in 2025 + Remaining duration in 2026 = 244/365 + 1 + 305/365 = 2.50 years

Impact of Expiration

Figure 1 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas resource can go through throughout its lifecycle. After purchased, a resource runs properly within the billing period. This period is the validity period. If the resource is not renewed after it expires, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas resource

Expiration reminder

Before a yearly/monthly Astro Zero instance expires, the system will send an expiration reminder through the email address or mobile number you used to create your Huawei Cloud account or through internal messages.

• The system will send you a reminder 30 days, 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before a yearly resource expires.
• The system will send you a reminder 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before a monthly resource expires.

Impact of expiration

If your yearly/monthly Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas resources expire and are not renewed, the resources enter the grace periods. During the grace period, you can use the Huawei Cloud Astro Canvas service.

If your package is not renewed before the grace period ends, it goes into the retention period and its status turns to Frozen. You cannot perform any operations on your resources in the retention period.

If you do not renew the subscription before the retention period expires, the functions will be disabled.