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Updated on 2024-12-03 GMT+08:00
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Overview

This section describes the sales mode, billing modes, billing items, package pricing, expiration or arrears, renewal, and unsubscription of FlexusL.

Sales Mode

A FlexusL instance is actually a package of resources. Resources in the package cannot be disassociated from the FlexusL instance. They have the same lifecycle with the FlexusL instance and cannot be renewed or unsubscribed from separately.

Resources packaged in a FlexusL instance only refer to the resources purchased on the FlexusL console. Resources purchased on other service consoles (such as CBR or HSS consoles) can be disassociated from FlexusL instances and can be deleted or unsubscribed from separately.

Billing Modes

FlexusL instances only support the yearly/monthly billing mode. Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. You need to pay first, and will be billed based on the required duration in your order. You will need to make sure you have a top-up account with a sufficient balance or have a valid payment method configured first.

Billing Items

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

Billing Item

Description

Billing Mode

Price

* Instance

Computing, storage and networking capabilities vary by instance specifications. You can choose desired specifications based on your service requirements.

Billing factors: vCPU/memory, system disk, and data package

NOTE:

Only outbound traffic (originating from your server) will be billed.

Yearly/Monthly

Monthly package price × Required duration

* Image

Images supported by FlexusL instances are free of charge.

Billing factor: image

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Free

Data disk

If you have additional storage requirements, you can purchase data disks.

Billing factor: data disk capacity

Yearly/Monthly

Unit price × Required duration

Host Security Service (HSS)

You can enable HSS to protect your FlexusL instances.

Billing factor: HSS basic edition

Yearly/Monthly

HSS unit price × Required duration

Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR)

You can purchase a backup vault to store backups of your FlexusL instance.

Billing factor: vault capacity

Yearly/Monthly

Vault capacity unit price × Required duration

Cloud Eye

Cloud Eye basic functions, such as viewing dashboards, creating alarm rules, and adding monitoring items, are free of charge. Cloud Eye may interconnect with other cloud services to provide you with value-added services such as monitoring data file dump and alarm notification. These value-added services may incur extra fees, which are settled by services that provide such functions.

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Basic functions are free of charge. Value-added services may incur extra fees.

Excess traffic (optional)

Service traffic is preferentially deducted from the data package. Any traffic usage in excess of the package is billed by traffic. The excess traffic is billed based on a tiered pricing model, and the unit price varies in different regions.

Pay-per-use

Unit price of traffic × Excess traffic volume

For details about the unit price of traffic, see EIP Pricing Details. The EIP type is dynamic BGP.

Expiration and Arrears

  • Yearly/Monthly FlexusL instances will expire after their validity periods end.
  • FlexusL instances come with data packages. Any traffic usage in excess of the package is billed on a pay-per-use basis. When FlexusL instances are associated with other resources that are billed on a pay-per-use basis, these resources are settled periodically. If you do not have a valid payment method configured or your account balance is insufficient, your account will fall into arrears.
    The following describes the impacts if your FlexusL instances expire or if your account is in arrears.

    Phase

    Impact

    Grace period

    After a FlexusL instance expires or your account is in arrears, the instance enters a grace period. Within the grace period, you can still access and use the FlexusL instance.

    Retention period

    If you do not renew your FlexusL instance or pay off the arrears before the grace period expires, the instance enters a retention period. During this retention period, you cannot access or use the FlexusL instance, but it is still retained.

    After a FlexusL instance enters a grace period or retention period, Huawei Cloud will notify you of this by email or text message. If you do not complete the renewal or payment before the retention period ends, your instance will be released. To avoid impacting your services, renew the instance in a timely manner.

Renewal

FlexusL instances cannot be used after they expire. If you want to continue using them, renew them before the retention period ends. Otherwise, your resources will be released and cannot be recovered.

FlexusL is provided as a package. Resources in the package are renewed together. The pricing for renewal is the same as that of a new purchase.

Unsubscription

A FlexusL instance is actually a package of resources. Resources in the package are unsubscribed together. If you unsubscribe from a FlexusL instance, all resources including the EVS disks, cloud backup vault, HSS, and EIP associated with the instance will be released and data cannot be recovered.

Unsubscription includes unsubscribing from resources and unsubscribing from renewal periods. After the unsubscription is successful, you will get a refund.

  • Unsubscribing from resources: You can unsubscribe from FlexusL instances (including the renewal period) that are no longer needed. For details, see Unsubscribing from Resources.
  • Unsubscribing from a renewal period: If you have renewed a FlexusL instance, you can unsubscribe from the renewal period. When you unsubscribe from a renewal period, you can only unsubscribe from the renewal period that has not yet taken effect. To unsubscribe from the renewal period that has taken effect, you can only unsubscribe from the FlexusL instance. For details, see Unsubscribing from a Renewal Period.
Parent topic: Billing