Overview

This section describes how ServiceStage bills you, including its billing items, billing modes, and renewals.

ServiceStage billing does not include computing resources (Cloud Container Engine (CCE) and Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)), network resources (Elastic Load Balance (ELB) and Elastic Public Network EIP)), middleware (Cloud Service Engine (CSE), Distributed Cache Service (DCS), and Cloud Database Service (RDS)), and storage resources (Software Repository (SWR), Object Storage Service (OBS), and CodeArts Repo).

• Billing Mode

  The ServiceStage billing mode is determined by your billing items. If you use ServiceStage in pay-per-use mode, you are billed on your actual usage. If you use ServiceStage in pay-per-use package mode, you are billed monthly or yearly. For details, see Billing Modes.

  Pay-per-use mode is a postpaid mode. You are billed on your actual usage duration.

• Billing Items

  ServiceStage is billed pay-per-use. For details about, see Billing Items.

  In pay-per-use mode, you directly use ServiceStage after subscribing. You are billed on the ServiceStage edition unit price (USD/hour/application instance), number of application instances, and usage duration.

• Bills

  View ServiceStage transactions and detailed bills on the Bills & Costs > Bills > Billing page. For details, see Bills.

• Arrears

  Your account goes into arrears when the balance cannot cover the bill you need to pay. ServiceStage and related cloud services may not run normally, so top up your account in time. For details, see About Arrears.

• Stopping Billing

  To stop using ServiceStage, unsubscribe from or delete it to avoid further fees. For details, see Stopping Billing.

• Cost Management

  ServiceStage costs include costs of ownership and O&M. Optimize costs in terms of cost collection, resource optimization, upgrade, cost saving awareness, and automatic O&M. For details, see Cost Management.