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Updated on 2024-06-27 GMT+08:00
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Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly resource, such as a yearly/monthly SFS file system, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased subscription expires.

  • If you no longer need a resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase and on if 5-day unconditional unsubscription rules apply, Huawei Cloud may issue you a refund. For details about unsubscription rules, see Unsubscriptions.
  • If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer wish to automatically renew the subscription, disable it before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If pay-per-use resources, such as pay-per-use SFS file systems, are no longer used, delete them in a timely manner.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way.

Use the resource ID in the bill to search for the resource.

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

    The page is displayed.

  2. On the Expenditure Details page, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.

    Figure 1 Copying the resource ID

  3. Choose Storage > Scalable File Service.

    The file system list is displayed.

  4. Select the region where the resource is located, select ID and enter the copied resource ID. Click the icon to search for the resource.

    Figure 2 Searching for the resource

  5. Choose More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the file system and check that the file system no longer appears in the list.

    You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you delete a file system (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.