Billing Examples

Billing Scenario

A user purchased a pay-per-use Elasticsearch cluster with only one data node at 15:30:00 on March 18, 2023. The specifications are as follows:

Node specifications: ess.spec-4u8g
Node storage: high I/O, 40 GB
Cluster public network access bandwidth: 6 Mbit/s

After some time, the user found that the current cluster specifications no longer met service requirements and updated the specifications to ess.spec-8u16g at 9:00:00 on March 20, 2023. The user intended to use the cluster in the long run. So at 10:30:00 on March 20, 2023, the user changed the billing mode to yearly/monthly with a subscription period of one month. How much is the total cost of this cluster in March and April?

Billing Analysis

The total price of this Elasticsearch cluster involves both pay-per-use and yearly/monthly usage:

Pay-per-use usage: March 18, 2023, 15:30:00 to March 20, 2023, 10:30:00
Yearly/monthly usage: March 20, 2023, 10:30:00 to April 20, 2023, 23:59:59

The prices in the figure are examples only. The actual prices are those displayed on CSS Pricing Details.

Pay-per-use

From March 18, 2023, 15:30:00 to March 20, 2023, 09:00:00, an ess.spec-4u8g flavor cluster was used for 41.5 hours, so the price would be calculated as follows:

Figure 1 Pay-per-use billing example

From March 20, 2023, 09:00:00 to March 20, 2023, 10:30:00, an ess.spec-8u16g flavor cluster was used for 1.5 hours, so the price would be calculated as follows:

Figure 2 Pay-per-use billing example after capacity expansion

Yearly/Monthly

From March 20, 2023, 10:30:00 to April 20, 2023, 23:59:59, a cluster purchased using yearly/monthly billing was used for one month, so the price would be calculated as follows.

Figure 3 Billing example of monthly subscription