Bills

Billing Generation

Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.

A pay-per-use instance is billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on the instance's usage type. Pay-per-use GaussDB instances are billed by the hour.

You are not charged immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a pay-per-use DB instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) is deleted at 08:30, you will still have expenditures for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour, but you will not likely be billed for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour until about 10:00. On the Bills page of the Billing Center, select the Bill Details tab. Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use resource is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

[Method 1: Use the instance ID to search for a bill.]

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.

   

3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB. The GaussDB console is displayed.
4. On the Instances page, click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the ID of the target instance.
   Figure 1 Copying the instance ID
   

5. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

6. On the Bill Details tab, select Resource ID as the filter, enter the instance ID obtained in 4, and click the icon.
   Figure 2 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required.

[Method 2: Use the instance name to search for a bill.]

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.

   

3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB. The GaussDB console is displayed.
4. On the Instances page, click the name of the target instance.

   The Basic Information page is displayed.

5. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the instance name.
   Figure 3 Copying the instance name
   

6. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

7. On the Bill Details tab, select Resource Name as the filter, enter the instance name obtained in 5, and click the icon.
   Figure 4 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required.

Scenario Example: Checking the Usage Consistency

Assume that you purchased a pay-per-use GaussDB instance at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023 and deleted it later that day, at 12:09:06.

• Transaction records

  Pay-per-use DB instance usage is calculated by the second but billed on an hourly basis. You can check the transaction records against the actual usage. The billed resources are billed separately. For details, see Table 1 (taking storage as an example).

  Table 1 DB instance transaction records

  Service Type	GaussDB
  Resource Type	Storage
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Expenditure Time	For the period of time from 10:09:06 to 12:09:06 on April 08, 2023, 6 transaction records would be generated for the resource usage in the following periods: 2023/04/08 10:09:06 - 2023/04/08 11:00:00 2023/04/08 11:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:00:00 2023/04/08 12:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:09:06
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price x Capacity In this example, 480 GB of storage was used by the GaussDB instance for 3,054 seconds in the first period, and the unit price is $0.00084 USD/GB/hour. The list price for the first period = (3054 ÷ 3600) x 0.00084 x 480 = $0.342048 USD. Similarly, you can calculate the GaussDB list price for the other periods. The unit price of GaussDB resources can be obtained on the GaussDB Pricing Details page.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	The billing of Huawei Cloud is calculated to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts. Take the first period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.002048 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first period as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.34 USD (0.342048 – 0 – 0.002048).

• DB instance bill details

  Bill details can display in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the DB instance bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage (taking storage as an example).

  Table 2 DB instance bill details

  Service Type	GaussDB
  Resource Type	Storage
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource Name/ID	DB instance name and ID Example: gauss-e4c4, 41986722eb1041f886d28a90fd610067in14
  Specifications	Storage space type and capacity Example: Ultra-high I/O, 480 GB
  Usage Type	Duration for a pay-per-use DB instance
  Unit Price	When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing. You can search for the unit price for pay-per-use GaussDB instances on GaussDB Pricing Details.
  Unit	USD/GB/hour, which is displayed on GaussDB Pricing Details
  Usage	Depends on the unit of the unit price, which is USD/GB/hour. Storage usage is billed by the hour. Example: 2 hours
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price x Capacity In this example, 480 GB of storage was used for 2 hours, and the unit price is $0.00084 USD/GB/hour. List price = 2 x 0.00084 x 480 = $0.8064 USD. The unit price of GaussDB resources can be obtained on the GaussDB Pricing Details page.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.