Overview

In this document, you will learn about how CBH instances are billed, how you can renew subscriptions and manage costs, and what happens if your account goes into arrears.

• Billing modes

  CBH supports the yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. You need to pay first, and will be billed based on the required duration in your order. You will need to make sure you have a top-up account with a sufficient balance or have a valid payment method configured first. Pay-per-use is a postpaid mode. You pay for what you use by the hour. CBH supports this billing mode in some regions. For details, see Overview.

  

  Currently, the pay-per-use billing mode applies only to the government cloud zone.

• Billing items

  The billing items of CBH consist of specifications you purchase. For details about billing items and calculation formulas, see Billing Items.

  Different billing calculation formulas are used based on billing modes. For details, see Billing Examples.

• Renewing subscriptions

  After a yearly/monthly CBH expires, it cannot run properly. To continue using a CBH instance, renew the CBH subscription within the specified period, or the CBH instance will be automatically released, and data may be lost. You can renew your subscription manually or automatically. For more details, see Overview.

• Bills

  You can choose Billing Center > Billing to check the CBH transactions and bills. For details, see About Bills.

• Arrears

  Your account goes into arrears when the balance cannot cover the bill you need to pay. If you want to continue using your cloud services, you will need to top up your account in a timely manner. For details, see About Arrears.

• Billing termination

  If you no longer need to use your cloud service, you can unsubscribe from or delete it to stop the billing. For details, see Billing Termination.

• Cost management

  CBH costs include resource costs and O&M costs. You can optimize costs through cost collection, resource optimization, upgrade, thrift, and automatic O&M. For details, see Cost Management.