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COST06-01 Understanding the Characteristics of Different Billing Modes on the Cloud

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  • Key strategies

    Huawei Cloud provides flexible billing modes, such as pay-per-use, yearly/monthly, resource package, and spot pricing, each suitable for different scenarios. You need to understand the characteristics of different billing modes and select the most appropriate one based on your needs to adapt to different business forms and reduce costs.

    • Pay-per-use: You may only need to use cloud resources temporarily or for unplanned, urgent purposes.
    • Yearly/monthly: You want to cut down costs by choosing a long-term subscription, and your demand is stable during the subscription term.
    • Resource package: Similar to a yearly/monthly subscription, you can buy a resource package in advance to cover your long-term usage of specific resource types.
    • Spot pricing: You do not have high requirements on service stability and can handle occasional interruptions.