Yearly/Monthly Billing

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.
• Workloads with high data security requirements

Billed Items

The following table lists the billed items of a yearly/monthly DB instance.

The billed items marked with asterisks (*) are mandatory.

If you want to purchase an RDS for MySQL 8.0 general-purpose primary/standby DB instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of memory, a cloud SSD, and 40 GB of storage for a duration of one month, the price will be displayed as follows (excluding the backup space fee):

Figure 1 Example price

The price includes:

• The instance class (vCPUs and memory)
• The storage space

The backup space pricing is not included. For details about the backup fees, see the Product Pricing Details page of the price calculator.

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly DB instance is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts from when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-month RDS DB 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 RDS for MySQL 8.0 primary/standby DB instance (instance class: general-purpose, 2 vCPUs | 4 GB; storage: cloud SSD, 40 GB; backup space: 50 GB (40 GB for free); bandwidth: 6 Mbit/s; one-second monitoring) on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscription for one more month before the initial subscription expired. That would include two usage periods:

• Billed usage period 1: March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.
• Billed usage period 2: April 08, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 08, 2023, 23:59:59.
  • From April 08, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 01, 2023, 23:59:59, 20 GB of free backup space was used.
  • From May 01, 2023, 23:59:59 to May 08, 2023, 23:59:59, another 10 GB of backup space was used, which was billed for 168 hours.
  • Monitoring by Seconds was enabled at 23:59:59 on May 04, 2023. Fees were generated from 23:59:59 on May 04, 2023 to 23:59:59 on May 08, 2023 (96 hours).

You will be billed for both usage periods. RDS resources are billed individually as follows:

Figure 2 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the figure are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on RDS Pricing Details.

Figure 2 Total price for a yearly/monthly DB instance (taking RDS for MySQL in CN-Hong Kong as an example)

Price Change After Instance Class Change

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

• If you upgrade your DB instance class, you need to pay the difference in price.
• If you downgrade your DB instance class, Huawei Cloud will refund you the difference.

You are not advised to downgrade your DB instance to a lower instance class because the instance performance may be affected. Suppose you purchased a one-month RDS for MySQL primary/standby DB instance (instance class: general-purpose, 2 vCPUs | 4 GB; storage: cloud SSD, 40 GB) in CN-Hong Kong on April 08, 2023 and upgraded the instance class to 4 vCPUs | 8 GB on April 18, 2023. The price of the original instance class was $88.69 USD/month, and that for the new instance class was $239.69 USD/month. The price difference will be calculated as follows:

Price difference for the instance class upgrade = Price for the new instance class × Remaining period - Price for the original instance class × Remaining period

The remaining period is the remaining days of each calendar month divided by the maximum number of days in each calendar month.

In this example, Remaining period = 12 (Remaining days in April)/30 (Maximum number of days in April) + 8 (Remaining days in May)/31 (Maximum number of days in May) = 0.6581. Cost of upgrade = $239.69 USD x 0.6581 – $88.69 USD x 0.6581 = $99.37 USD

For more details, see Pricing of a Changed Specification.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 3 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly DB instance can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a DB instance is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the DB instance is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 3 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly DB instance

Expiration Reminder

The system will send you a reminder (by email, SMS, or in-app message) 7 days before a yearly/monthly DB instance expires to remind you to renew the subscription.

Impact of Expiration

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

• Change instance class
• Change the billing mode to pay-per-use
• Unsubscribe from the DB instance

If the yearly/monthly DB instance is not renewed after the grace period ends, its status turns to Frozen and it enters a retention period. You cannot access or use the DB instance while it is in the retention period, but the data stored in it can be retained.

If the yearly/monthly DB instance is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, the corresponding resources will be released and the data stored in the resources will be deleted.

• During the retention period, you cannot access or use your DB instance but the data stored in it can be retained. The retention period for the Huawei Cloud International website is 15 days.
• During the grace period, you can access and use only some resources of your DB instance. The grace period for the Huawei Cloud International website is 15 days.
• For details about renewal, see Overview.