Bills

Bill Reporting Period

After yearly/monthly resources are paid, a bill is reported to the billing system for settlement.

The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. Pay-per-use products can be settled by hour, day, or month based on the usage type. For details about the fee deduction rules, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources. The pay-per-use billing mode of GaussDB(DWS) is settled by hour.

The fee deduction time of pay-per-use resources may be later than the settlement period. For example, if an ECS (settled by hour) is deleted at 08:30, the fees generated during 08:00 to 09:00 are usually deducted at about 10:00. In the Billing Center, choose Billing > Expenditure Items. Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use repository is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

Example 1: Use the resource ID to search for the bill. The resource ID is the same as that in the bill.

1. Log in to the DWS console.
2. Click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the cluster ID.
   Figure 1 Obtaining the cluster ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills. The Bills page is displayed.
4. Choose Billing > Expenditure Details > Resource Name or ID, select Resource ID as the filter, enter the copied cluster ID, and click .
   Figure 2 Querying a resource bill
   

   By default the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Usage Details.

Example 2: Use the resource name to search for a bill.

1. Log in to the DWS console.
2. Click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the cluster name.
   Figure 3 Obtaining the cluster name
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills. The Bills page is displayed.
4. Choose Billing > Expenditure Details > Resource Name or ID, select Resource Name as the filter, enter the copied cluster name, and click .
   Figure 4 Querying a resource bill
   

   You can see that the data warehouse cluster charges fees for three types of resources: data warehouse service disk storage, data warehouse nodes, and data warehouse clusters. This depends on the data warehouse billing modes and billing items. For details, see 1 Billing Overview.

   For details about the parameters for querying bills, see Usage Details.

Scenario Example: Checking Whether the Resource Usage in the Bill Is Consistent with the Actual Resource Usage

Assume that a user created a data warehouse service cluster (dwsx2.xlarge | 12 vCPUs | 96 GB memory | 300 GB hot data storage) at 14:00:00 on June 19, 2023 and deleted the cluster at 16:57:21 on June 19, 2023.

• GaussDB(DWS) transaction bills

  Pay-per-use GaussDB(DWS) resources are billed by second and are settled on the hour. You can check whether the information about each billing cycle in the transaction bill is consistent with the actual information. For details, see the following table.

  Table 1 Node fee bill details

  Service Type	GaussDB(DWS)
  Resource Type	GaussDB(DWS) cluster
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Expenditure Time	From 2023/06/19 14:00:00 to 2023/06/19 16:57:21, the billing system generates three transaction bills for each billing period. 2023/06/19 14:00:00–2023/06/19 15:00:00 2023/06/19 15:00:00–2023/06/19 16:00:00 2023/06/19 16:00:00–2023/06/19 16:57:21
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price x Capacity In this example, the hot data capacity usage in the first billing period is 3,054 seconds. You can query the unit price on the GaussDB(DWS) Price Calculator page. For example, if the hot data capacity usage is $0.825 USD/node and the number of nodes is 3, the official website price will be 3 x 0.825 = $2.475 USD. Similarly, you can calculate the EVS list price for the other periods.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud bills a resource with the price accurate to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amount.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount

  Table 2 Storage fee bill details

  Service Type	GaussDB(DWS)
  Resource Type	GaussDB(DWS) cluster
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource Name/ID	Name and ID of GaussDB(DWS) Example: dws-272f, 4cdeb1cd-7071-4890-9ce4-e6c2299e960e
  Specifications	Type and capacity of the GaussDB(DWS) instance Example: General-purpose SSD with 100 GB capacity
  Usage Type	The usage type of GaussDB(DWS) billed in pay-per-use mode is Hot data storage.
  Unit Price	In the Pay-per-Use billing mode, the unit price is provided only when the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing. You can search for the unit price for pay-per-use GaussDB(DWS) instances on the GaussDB(DWS) Pricing Details page.
  Unit	Unit price queried in GaussDB(DWS) Pricing Details: $0.001 USD/GB-hour
  Usage	The usage is displayed by the resource's unit price, which is USD/GB-hour for a GaussDB(DWS) cluster. Therefore, the usage is measured by hour. In this example, the total usage is 2 hours.
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price x Capacity In this example, the usage duration is 2 hours, and the unit price can be queried on the GaussDB(DWS) Price Calculator page. For example, if the capacity is 100 GB and the unit price is $0.001 USD/GB-hour, the list price will be 3 x 0.001 x 100 x 2 (backup) = $0.6 USD.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.