Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

You pay for a yearly/monthly graph instance when you purchase it. Billing automatically stops when the subscription expires.

If you no longer need a resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase and on if 5-day unconditional unsubscription rules apply, Huawei Cloud may issue you a refund.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If a pay-per-use graph instance is no longer needed, you can delete it to stop billing. Note that stopping a running graph instance will only stop the charges for the basic resource graph size (number of edges), but charges for graph data stored in OBS buckets and public network bandwidth will continue. Therefore, deleting the graph instance is necessary to avoid incurring further costs.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way. Follow these operations:

1. Log in to the management console. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.
2. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills, click the Bill Details tab, and then click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the resource ID.
   Figure 1 Copying a resource name
   
3. On the GES management console, choose Graph Management. On the page displayed, paste the copied resource ID, search for the graph instance corresponding to the resource ID, and delete or stop the graph. Make sure that the instance does not exist in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you delete a graph instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30:00, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00:00 to 09:00:00 are usually not billed until around 10:00:00.