Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly resource, such as a yearly/monthly DB instance, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased 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. For details about unsubscription rules, see Unsubscriptions.
• If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer wish to automatically renew the subscription, disable it before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If pay-per-use resources, such as pay-per-use DB instances, are no longer required, delete them in a timely manner.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

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

1. Log in to the management console.
2. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.
3. On the Expenditure Details page of the Billing Center, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource name.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource name
   

4. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
5. Enter the copied resource name in the search box to search for the resource.
6. Choose More > Stop in the Operation column to stop the DB instance. You can temporarily stop pay-per-use DB instances to save money.

   After a DB instance is stopped, the ECS where the DB instance is located is no longer billed. Other resources, including EIPs, storage resources, database proxies, and backups, are still billed. For more information, see Stopping an Instance.

7. To delete the DB instance, choose More > Delete in the Operation column. Ensure that the DB instance has been removed from 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 DB instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.