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Updated on 2024-12-16 GMT+08:00
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Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly DCS 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.

    Unsubscribing from resources deletes instances and data permanently. Therefore, ensure that the instance data is backed up or no longer used.

  • 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 a pay-per-use DCS instance is no longer needed, delete it to stop billing.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way. To do so, perform the following operations:

  1. Log in to the console.
  2. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.
  3. In the navigation pane, choose Billing > Expenditure Details. Click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.

    Figure 1 Copying resource ID

  4. Click in the upper left and choose Middleware > Distributed Cache Service (for Redis).
  5. In the navigation pane, choose Cache Manager.
  6. Select the region where the instance resource is located, select ID from the filter criteria, enter the resource ID copied in 3, and click the icon to search for the resource.

    You can also copy the resource name in 3 and select Resource Name as the filter criteria to search for instance resources by resource name.

    Figure 2 Searching for resources

  7. Click More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the DCS instance.

    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 deleted a pay-per-use resource (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually charged at about 10:00.