Bills
You can view the resource usage and bills for different billing cycles on the Bills page in the Billing Center.
Bill Reporting Period
- Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after the subscriptions are paid for.
- The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at fixed intervals. Depending on the type of usage, pay-per-use resources are settled on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis. For details about the billing rules, see Periodic Settlement of Pay-per-Use Products. Pay-per-use CSS resources are settled on an hourly basis.
- Fee deduction for pay-per-use resources may occur later than the settlement period. For example, if a cluster is deleted at 08:30, the fees incurred during 08:00 to 09:00 are usually deducted at around 10:00. On the Bills page of the Billing Center, select the Bill Details tab. Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use resource is used.
Querying Bills by Resource Name
- Log in to the CSS management console.
- In the navigation pane on the left, expand Clusters. Select a cluster type based on the target cluster. The cluster list is displayed.
- In the cluster list, select the target cluster and copy the resource name.
Figure 1 Coping the resource name
- Choose Billing > Expenditure Details in Billing Center.
- Select Resource Name as the filter, paste the resource name copied earlier, and search for the bill of the resource.
Figure 2 Querying resource bills
For details, see Bill Details.
Verifying the Resource Usage
Assume that you purchased a pay-per-use Elasticsearch cluster with only one data node (ess.spec-4u8g, high I/O, 40 GB) at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023, and deleted it at 12:09:06 on April 8, 2023.
- Cluster transaction records
Pay-per-use CSS clusters are billed by the second but the bill is settled hourly. You can check the transaction records against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.
Table 1 Cluster transaction records Service Type
Cloud Search Service (CSS)
Product
- CSS nodes (node specifications)
- CSS disks (node storage)
Billing Mode
Pay-per-use
Expenditure Time
From 10:09:06 to 12:09:06 on April 08, 2023, three bills were generated:
- 2023/04/08 10:09:06 ~ 2023/04/08 11:00:00
- 2023/04/08 11:00:00 ~ 2023/04/08 12:00:00
- 2023/04/08 12:00:00 ~ 2023/04/08 12:09:06
List Price
List price = Usage x Unit price
Discount
Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
Truncated Amount
Huawei Cloud bills a resource with the price (USD) accurate to the eighth decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amount.
Amount Due
Amount = List price – Discount – Truncated amount
- Cluster bill details
Bill details are displayed by multiple dimensions. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. You can check bill details by referring to Table 2.
Table 2 Cluster bill details Service Type
Cloud Search Service (CSS)
Product
- CSS nodes (node specifications)
- CSS disks (node storage)
Billing Mode
Pay-per-use
Resource Name/ID
Cluster name and ID
Example: css-cc24, 692c7157-8240-4032-a94f-1d3ba35d0df2
Specifications
- Cluster node specifications, for example, CSS-4u8g node
- Cluster node storage, for example, CSS storage | High I/O | 10 GB (four disks).
The cluster's billing items may vary.
Usage Type
Duration for pay-per-use billing
Unit Price
When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing.
You can search for the unit price for pay-per-use CSS clusters in Cloud Search Service Pricing Details.
Unit
The price unit varies depending on the billing items and billing mode. For details, see Cloud Search Service Pricing Details.
Usage
The usage is displayed based on the unit price of the product.
Usage Unit
Hours
List Price
List price = Usage x Unit price
Discount
Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
Amount Due
The amount that should be paid for the used cloud resource after discounts are applied.
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