Billing Examples

Billing Scenario

A user purchased a pay-per-use IoTDA instance of the standard edition at 15:30:00 on March 18, 2023. The instance configuration is as follows:

• Service unit type: SU1
• Number of service units: 5

After a period of time, the user found that the current instance specifications no longer met service requirements and updated the instance specifications to ten SU2 units at 9:00:00 on March 22, 2023. How much is the total cost by the end of March?

Billing Analysis

The fee can be divided into two segments. From March 18, 2023, 15:30:00 to March 22, 2023, 00:00:00, the fee was charged based on five SU1 units: 0.81 (per unit per day) x 5 x 4 = USD16.2. From March 22, 2023, 00:00:00 to April 1, 2023, 00:00:00, the fee was charged based on ten SU2 units: 5.32 (per unit per day) x 10 x 10 = USD532.

As a result, the total cost incurred is USD548.2.