Bills

You can go to Billing Center > Billing to view resource usage and bills by billing cycle.

Bill Generation

Resource use in KVS is billed on an hourly basis.

You are not billed immediately when a billing cycle ends. For example, the billing for the cycle from 7:00:00 to 8:00:00 usually happens between around 8:30:00 and 8:40:00. In the navigation pane of Billing Center, choose Billing > Expenditure Items, where the Expenditure Time column indicates when a resource was used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

Log in to the KVS console.
In the navigation pane on the left, choose Stores.
In the store list, copy the name of the store whose bills you want to view.
Click the store name to go to its details page.
On the Tables tab, copy the name of the required table in the list.
On the top menu bar, choose Billing > Bills.
In the navigation pane, choose Billing > Expenditure Details.
Choose a billing cycle and specify a display dimension (Usage by default).
In the search box, select Resource Name as the filter criterion, enter the store name and table name copied respectively in 3 and 5 in the format storename.tablename, and press Enter to obtain the bills of the table.

Click Export above the search box to export expenditure details.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

In Billing Center, the standard write request unit "million WRUs" is displayed as Million times, and the standard read request unit "million RRUs" is displayed as Million times.

Assume that from 8:00:00 to 9:00:00 on April 30, 2024, your table occupied 10 GB of storage, with no requests made. From 9:00:00 to 10:00:00 on the same day, it processed 10 WRUs from the upload of a KV item.

KVS expenditure items
Tables are billed on an hourly basis. You can check the expenditure items against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.

**Table 1** KVS expenditure items
Service Type	Key-Value Storage Service KVS
Resource Type	Key-Value Storage Service
Billing Mode	Pay-per-Use
Expenditure Time	From 8:00:00 to 10:00:00 on April 30, 2024, three transaction records were generated in the following billing cycles: April 30 2024 8:00:00 - April 30 2024 9:00:00 April 30 2024 9:00:00 - April 30 2024 10:00:00
List Price	List price for hourly storage = Total usage (GB) × Unit price (USD/GB) In the first billing cycle, the list price for the storage usage is $0.00459 USD (10 GB × $0.000459 USD). You can calculate the list prices for the second cycle in the same manner.
Discount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
Truncated	Huawei Cloud resource prices are accurate to 8 decimal places. But the amount due is to the 2nd decimal place, with the third and later truncated. Take the first billing cycle as an example. The truncated amount is $0.00459 USD.
Amount	Amount = List price – Discount – Truncated amount Take the first billing cycle as an example. If the discount is $0.00 USD, the amount due is $0.00 USD ($0.00459 USD - $0.00 USD - $0.00459 USD).

KVS expenditure details
Expenditure details can be displayed in multiple ways. By default, the expenditure details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the expenditure details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

**Table 2** KVS expenditure details
Service Type	Key-Value Storage Service KVS
Resource Type	Key-Value Storage Service
Billing Mode	Pay-per-Use
Resource Name/ID	storename.tablename, ID Example: exampleprefix-cn-north-4-exampledomainid.exampletable, 00000000-0000-005e-0000-000000000001
Specifications	KVS billing items Standard type 3AZ on-demand storage (take the first billing cycle as an example)
Usage Type	Standard capacity (take the first billing cycle as an example)
Unit Price	A unit price is provided for pay-per-use billing when the list price is equal to the total usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided for tiered pricing or small amount accumulation. A unit price is provided for pay-per-use billing in KVS. The unit price for storage is $0.000459 USD (take the first billing cycle as an example).
Unit	USD/GB (take the first billing cycle as an example)
Total Usage	The used capacity of the resource. The unit depends on the unit in the unit price. The storage usage from 8:00:00 to 9:00:00 on April 30, 2024 was 10 GB (take the first billing cycle as an example).
Usage Unit	GB (take the first billing cycle as an example)
List Price	List price for hourly storage = Total usage (GB) × Unit price (USD/GB) In the first billing cycle, the list price for the storage usage is $0.00459 USD (10 GB × $0.000459 USD). You can calculate the list prices for the second cycle in the same manner.
Discount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
Amount	Amount that should be paid for the used cloud resource after discounts are applied.