Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Clusters

• If you purchase a yearly/monthly cluster, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased subscription expires. If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer wish to automatically renew the subscription, disable it before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.
• If you no longer need a resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. The unsubscription procedure is as follows:
  1. Log in to the CSS management console.
  2. On the Clusters page, locate the cluster you want to unsubscribe from.
  3. Choose More > Unsubscribe/Release in the Operation column.
  4. In the Unsubscribe Cluster dialog box, enter RETREAT, and then click OK.

     On the displayed page, confirm the resource information and refund amount.

  5. Select the unsubscription reason, select the acknowledgement check boxes, and click Unsubscribe.

     In the displayed confirmation dialog box, click Unsubscribe.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If a pay-per-use cluster that contains pay-per-use public network bandwidth and EVS disks is no longer required, delete the cluster.

The unsubscription procedure is as follows:

1. Log in to the CSS management console.
2. On the Clusters page, locate the cluster you want to unsubscribe from.
3. In the Operation column, choose More > Delete.
4. In the Delete Cluster dialog box, enter DELETE, and then click OK.

Clearing Storage Data

CSS snapshots are stored in OBS. To stop storage billing, switch to the OBS console and delete the data and directories.