Yearly/Monthly Billing

Yearly/Monthly billing is a prepaid billing mode. It is ideal for users who are confident in their long-term needs and want to secure a lower price. This section describes the billing rules for yearly/monthly CloudTable resources.

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice for the following types of workloads:

Long-term workloads with stable resource requirements, such as official websites, online malls, and blogs.
Long-term projects, such as scientific research projects and large-scale events.
Workloads with predictable traffic bursts, for example, e-commerce promotions or festivals. The yearly/monthly billing allows you to purchase resources in advance to avoid resource insufficiency in peak hours.

Billed Items

You are billed for the following items on a yearly/monthly basis.

**Table 1** Items billed on a yearly/monthly basis
Billed Item	Description
Compute	Compute specifications of a node
Storage	Storage specifications and capacity of a node
Nodes	Number of nodes

When planning to purchase HBase, ClickHouse, or Doris clusters, the prices will be displayed as follows.

Figure 1 Example prices for an HBase cluster

Figure 2 Example prices for a Doris cluster

Figure 3 Example prices for a ClickHouse cluster

The price includes:

Node fee: The fee is calculated based on the selected node specifications and node quantity.
Storage fee: The fee is calculated based on the selected storage specifications and capacity.

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly CloudTable instance is billed for the purchased duration (UTC+8). The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription (accurate to seconds), and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-month CloudTable instance on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billed usage period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased a one-month subscription (compute units and data storage) on March 8, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

Mar 08, 2023, 15:50:04–Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59
Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59–May 08, 2023, 23:59:59

You must prepay for each billed usage period. Table 2 shows the billing formula.

**Table 2** Billing formulas
Item	Formula	Unit Price
Compute	Unit price of node specifications × Required duration × Number of nodes	The actual fee depends on the price displayed on the console.
Storage	Data storage unit price × Data storage capacity × Number of nodes × Required duration	The actual fee depends on the price displayed on the console.

The prices in the figure are for reference only. The actual prices are those displayed on the console.

Figure 4 Yearly/monthly HBase billing example
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Figure 5 Yearly/Monthly Doris billing example
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Figure 6 Yearly/monthly ClickHouse billing example
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Price Change After Specification Change

If the specifications of a yearly/monthly CloudTable instance no longer meet your needs, you can change the specifications on the console. The system will recalculate the price and either bill or refund you the difference.

HBase configuration change: horizontal scale-out, disk capacity expansion, and specification change.
Doris configuration change: horizontal scale-out, disk capacity expansion, and specification change.
ClickHouse configuration change: horizontal scale-out, disk capacity expansion, and specification change.

Impacts of Expiration

Figure 7 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly CloudTable resource can go through throughout its lifecycle. After an instance is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the instance is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 7 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly CloudTable instance
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Expiration Reminder

Before a yearly/monthly CloudTable resource expires, the system will send an expiration reminder to the creator of the Huawei Cloud account by email, SMS, and internal message.

For a yearly resource, the system will send you a reminder 30 days, 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before it expires.
For a monthly resource, the system will send you a reminder 15 days, 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before it expires.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly CloudTable instance is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period. During this period, you can still access CloudTable.

If the yearly/monthly CloudTable instance is not renewed after the grace period ends, its status turns to Frozen and it enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on the resource while it is in the retention period.

If the yearly/monthly CloudTable instance is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, the compute resources (vCPUs and memory), EVS disks, and EIPs will be released and data cannot be restored.