Billing Overview

Billing Modes

GaussDB(DWS) provides three billing modes: yearly/monthly, pay-per-use, and discount package. The longer you use, the less you pay.

• Yearly/Monthly: Recommended for long-term users. You can purchase cloud services in yearly/monthly mode and enjoy a larger discount than in the pay-per-use mode.
• Pay per use (hourly): In this billing mode, you can enable or disable GaussDB(DWS) as you like. You are billed by your use duration on an hourly basis (the time is accurate to minutes) and the system generates a bill every natural hour and deducts fees from your account balance.
• Discount package: Prepayment for OBS hot data storage is required either monthly or annually. In contrast to pay-per-use billing, the discount package offers substantial savings, making it ideal for long-term users of DWS 3.0.

For details, see Billing Modes. You can also change the billing mode later if it no longer meets your needs. For details, see Billing Mode Change.

Billing Items

The billing items of GaussDB(DWS) are data warehouse nodes, snapshot storage space, standard data warehouse storage, OBS hot data storage, public IP address and bandwidth (optional), and database encryption keys (optional). For details about the calculation factors and formula of each billing item, see Item.

For more information about the billing samples in different scenarios and the billing process for each billing item in different billing modes, see Billing Examples.

Renewal

GaussDB(DWS) supports the yearly/monthly, pay-per-use, and discount package billing modes. In the yearly/monthly and discount package billing modes, you make a one-off payment when purchasing GaussDB(DWS), and no extra fees will be incurred while you use GaussDB(DWS). GaussDB(DWS) is available as long as your account balance is sufficient. In pay-per-use billing, fees are deducted every hour. If the balance is insufficient, your account will be in arrears. Otherwise, your resources will be given a retention period. During this period, data will be retained, but clusters will be stopped.

The retention period depends on your level. To renew your package, visit Renewals. For details, see Renewal.

Bills

To learn about your expenditures, go to Billing Center > Billing, and view the transactions and billing details related to GaussDB(DWS). For details, see Bills.

Arrears

Your account goes into arrears when the balance is less than the bill to be settled. To continue using your cloud services, top up your account in time. For details, see Arrears.

Stopping Billing

If you no longer need to use your GaussDB(DWS) resources, you can unsubscribe from or delete them to stop the billing. For details, see Stopping Billing.

Cost Management

GaussDB(DWS) costs include costs of ownership and O&M. You can allocate, analyze, and optimize ECS costs to save more money. For details, see Cost Management.