How Is CCE Billed/Charged?

Billing Items

CCE is free of charge. You only pay for the resources (such as nodes) created when you are using CCE. There are two types of billing items:

1. Clusters: the cost of resources used by master nodes, varying depending on the cluster type and size. Cluster types include VM cluster and BMS cluster (the number of master nodes determines whether a cluster is highly available). Cluster size (also called management scale) indicates the maximum number of nodes allowed in a cluster.
   

   The management scale indicates the number of ECSs or BMSs in a cluster.

2. IaaS resource costs are incurred from the IaaS resources you use to run worker nodes in your cluster. These resources, created either manually or automatically, include ECSs, EVS disks, EIPs, bandwidth, and load balancers.

Billing Modes

CCE is billed on a pay-per-use basis.

• Pay-per-use: It is a pay-after-use mode. Billing starts when a resource is provisioned and stops when the resource is deleted. You can use cloud resources as required and stop paying for them when you no longer need them. There is no upfront payment for excess capacity.
  

  The following are pricing principles in the case of CCE cluster hibernation or node shutdown. Note that there are many types of cluster nodes and ECS is used as an example.

  • Cluster hibernation: For a hibernated cluster, you will not be billed for master nodes, but the resources used by or bound to the cluster, such as the EVS disks, EIPs, and bandwidth, will be billed in their own ways such as pay-per-use.
  • Node shutdown: Hibernating a cluster will not stop worker nodes in the cluster. You can select Stop all nodes in the cluster to do so. You can also stop a node on the ECS console after hibernating a cluster..

• Clusters follow a tiered pricing plan. Pricing for each tier varies with cluster size and type.
• Once a pay-per-use resource becomes in arrears, provides a grace period and a retention period during which you can top up your account or renew resources. Within the grace period, you can still access and use your cloud service.