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Updated on 2024-12-24 GMT+08:00
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How Does Huawei Cloud Calculate the Billing Cycle?

The related fields are as follows:

Field

Explanation

Billing cycle

The calendar month when a transaction occurs. Each transaction has its billing cycle. Huawei Cloud summarizes the transactions in a monthly bill based on the billing cycles of the transactions.

Expenditure time

The time when a transaction record was generated. For a yearly/monthly resource, it specifies when the resource was purchased or renewed. For a pay-per-use resource, it is the period of time the resource was used within any given hour.

Transaction time

The time when a payment was made for a transaction.

Huawei Cloud counts a transaction record in a billing cycle based on its Expenditure time. Specifically:

  • If both the expenditure time and transaction time were in the previous month, the transaction is counted as part of the previous billing cycle.
  • If the expenditure time was in the previous month, but the transaction time was between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 of the 1st day of the current month, the transaction is counted as part of the previous billing cycle.
  • If the expenditure time was in the previous month, but the transaction time is after 23:59:59 on 1st dat of the current month, the transaction is counted as part of the current billing cycle.
  • If both the expenditure time and transaction time are in the current month, the transaction is counted as part of the current billing cycle.

The transactions, bills, and billing cycle are calculated based on the time (GMT+08:00), instead of the system time or browser time.

Example

  • If a transaction occurs in June and payment is also made in June, the transaction is counted as part of the June billing cycle.

  • If a transaction occurs in June, but payment is made in July, the transaction is counted as part of the June billing cycle.

  • If, for some reason, the usage report is delayed, the usage from the previous month may not be reported until after 23:59:59 on the first day of the current month.

    For example, if a pay-per-use CDN resource is used from January 31, 2024 23:00:00 to February 01, 2024 00:00:00, and the usage is reported at February 02, 2024 00:00:05, the transaction is counted as part of the February 2024 billing cycle, even though the expenditure time was from January 31, 2024 23:00:00 to February 01, 2024 00:00:00.