Pay-per-Use Billing

Concept

Pay-per-use billing is a postpaid billing mode in which an ECS will be billed based on usage frequency and duration. ECSs are billed by the second. The system generates a bill every hour based on the usage duration and deducts the billed amount from the account balance. A pay-per-use ECS can be provisioned and deleted at any time.

For a stopped pay-per-use ECS, the startup may fail due to insufficient resources. Please wait for several minutes before attempting another restart or changing the ECS specifications.

Billing Examples

In the pay-per-use billing mode, ECSs are billed by the second. The price per second for each type of ECS can be obtained by dividing their hourly price by 3,600. Obtain the hourly price on the Product Pricing Details page.

Resources Supporting Pay-per-Use Billing

Resources billed on a pay-per-use basis include:

• ECSs (vCPUs and memory)
• EVS disks purchased together with a yearly/monthly ECS
• Bandwidth purchased with a pay-per-use ECS