Updated on 2023-12-07 GMT+08:00

Resource Expenditures

Bill Description

  1. After subscribing to resource expenditures bills on the Billing Center > Bills > Expenditure Data Storage page, you can download and view these bills from Service List > Storage > Object Storage Service.

    For details about how to download the bills, see Downloading Subscribed Bills.

  2. Select the folder named after a date as needed.

  3. The date folder is opened. Download the resource expenditures file.

    Bill

    Billing Cycle

    Data to Be Exported

    File Name

    Resource expenditures

    Daily

    Resource expenditure data of the previous day

    Resource_Expenditures_YYYYMMDD

    Third day of each month

    Pay-per-use expenditure data of the last month (for example, data of CDN expenditure charged based on daily average peak bandwidth).

    In the resource expenditure records exported on the third day of each month, the pay-per-use expenditure data of the previous month is displayed.

    NOTE:

    Such data is not displayed if there is no monthly-settled pay-per-use products.

    Resource_Expenditures(Pay-per-Use)_MonthlyBill_YYYYMM

Bill Content

Table 1 Parameters

Field Name

Field Description

Expenditure Time

Expenditure time of a product.

If the billing mode is Yearly/Monthly or Savings Plan, this field indicates the payment time of the product.

If the billing mode is Pay-per-use or Savings plans-hourly billing, this field specifies the validity period of the cloud service.

Billing Cycle

Time frame between billings for an account. It is determined by HUAWEI CLOUD and is generally one natural month. When a billing cycle ends, the system calculates all the fees that a customer needs to pay during the billing cycle and generates a bill.

Resource ID

Unique ID of a cloud service resource.

Resource Name

Name of a cloud service resource.

Resource Tag

User-defined tag of a cloud service resource.

BE

Supplier of the product:

  • HUAWEI CLOUD
  • Reseller

Billing Mode

Billing mode.

  • Monthly
  • Yearly
  • Daily
  • One-off
  • Pay-per-use
  • Savings plans-upfront payment
  • Savings plans-hourly billing

Product Type

Category of a cloud service.

Resource Type

Category of the resource used for a cloud service.

Product

Name of a cloud service.

Specifications

A collection of attributes and their values used to describe the features of the resource that a cloud service needs. Specifications of resources of the same type have the same attributes but different attribute values.

Region

Cloud service region that provides public cloud service resources independently and serves a large geographical area.

Enterprise project ID

ID of the specified enterprise project. If no enterprise project is selected when the customer purchases a product, the enterprise project ID is 0.

Enterprise project name

Name of the specified enterprise project. If no enterprise project is selected for the cloud service, default is displayed as the value of this field.

Usage Type

How a pay-per-use cloud service is billed, such as by duration, capacity, or upstream traffic.

Usage/Purchased Duration

How a cloud service is used within a period of time, such as by duration, capacity, count, or traffic.

Usage in Package/Usage in Reserved Instance

Usage of a product or resource in a resource package or reserved instance within a period of time. If this usage does not exceed the package quota, no extra charges are incurred.

Unit

Unit to measure the product usage.

Official Total Amount

Price of the product for the specified period displayed on the HUAWEI CLOUD official website.

Discount

Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. The value is the discount amount based on the original price.

Amount

Amount that you should pay for used cloud services after discounts have been applied. The discounts include promotional discounts, discount coupons, commercial discounts, and partner authorized discounts.

Order Type

Type of a product order:

  • Purchase
  • Renewal
  • Unsubscription
  • Change: specification upgrade or downgrade Generally, a positive amount indicates a specification upgrade and a negative amount indicates a specification downgrade.

Order No.

Unique ID of an order.

Transaction Time

Time when the fee is paid for an expenditure.

Tax

Tax amount.

Sub-resource Name

Name of a child resource for a cloud service.

A child resource takes the subordinate position among several associated resources, for example, an EVS system disk is a child resource of an ECS.

Sub-resource ID

Unique ID of a child resource for a cloud service.

Sub-resource Product Type

Service type of a child resource for a cloud service.

Sub-resource Product

Service name of a child resource for a cloud service.

Combined Order No.

Unique ID of a combined order.

Huawei Cloud will combine multiple orders that need to be executed in a batch, such as operated in a batch and paid in a batch. You need to pay or cancel the orders together in a combined order. After a combined order is paid, each cloud service in the combined order can be managed separately.