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Pay-per-Use Billing

Billing Mode

Pay-per-use billing means you pay nothing up front and are not tied into any contract or commitment. The following describes the billing rules.

Application Scenarios

Pay-per-use billing is good for short-term, bursty, or unpredictable workloads that cannot tolerate any interruptions, such as applications for e-commerce flash sales, temporary testing, and scientific computing.

Billing Items

You are billed for the following items on a pay-per-use basis.

Table 1 Billing items

Billing Item

Description

Clusters managed by UCS
  • The cluster management cost depends on the cluster type (including Huawei Cloud clusters, on-premises clusters, attached clusters, multi-cloud clusters, and partner cloud clusters), cluster specification (vCPUs), and required duration. For details about the number of vCPUs, see Viewing the Number of vCPUs of a Cluster.
  • The cluster management cost does not include the price of any related resources (such as compute nodes and other network services).

Assume that you plan to add a Huawei Cloud cluster to UCS. At the bottom of the cluster registration page, you can view the cluster management cost on a pay-per-use basis.

Figure 1 Example price

Huawei Cloud UCS is billed every hour based on the actual resource usage and required duration.

Billed Usage Period

The management cost of a cluster is calculated by the second and billed every hour (UTC+08:00). The billing starts when a cluster is connected and ends after the cluster is deregistered.

For example, if you connect a cluster to UCS at 08:45:30 and delete it at 08:55:30, you are billed for the 600 seconds from 8:45:30 to 8:55:30.

Parent topic: Billing Modes