Bills

Bill Generation

• Pay-per-use: The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. Pay-per-use resources can be settled by hour, day, or month based on usage type. For details, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources. The ELB usage is billed by hour.

You are not charged immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a pay-per-use load balancer (which is billed on an hourly basis) is deleted at 08:30, you will still have expenditures for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour. However, you will not likely be billed for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour until about 10:00. In Billing Center, choose Billing > Expenditure Items in the left navigation pane. Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use resource is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Load Balancer

1. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance from the service list.

   The load balancer list page is displayed.

2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the load balancer ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the load balancer ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Dashboard page is displayed.

4. Choose Billing > Expenditure Details in the left navigation pane. Select Resource ID as the filter criteria, enter the resource ID obtained in step 2, and click the icon.
   Figure 2 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Bills.

Checking the Resource Usage

Assume you purchased a pay-per-use dedicated load balancer with fixed specifications at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023, deployed it in two AZs, selected small I for both application load balancing (HTTP/HTTPS) and network load balancing (TCP/UDP) to route requests over the private network, and finally deleted at 12:09:06 on April 8, 2023.

• ELB expenditure items

  Pay-per-use load balancer usage is calculated by the second and billed on an hourly basis. You can check the expenditure items against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 ELB expenditure items

  Cloud Service	Elastic Load Balance (ELB)
  Load Balancer Type	Dedicated
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Expenditure Time	From 10:09:06 on April 08, 2023 to 12:09:06 on April 08, 2023, three transaction records would be generated for the following usage periods: 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 on the official website = Usage x Unit price In this example, the load balancer was used for 3,054 seconds in the first period, and the unit price can be obtained on the Elastic Load Balance Pricing Details page. For example, if the unit price is $0.278 USD/hour, the list price for the first period = (3,054 ÷ 3,600) x 0.278 = $0.23583667 USD. Similarly, you can calculate the ELB list price for the other usage periods.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud billing is calculated to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts. Take the first usage period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.00083667 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discounted amount – Truncated amount Take the first usage period as an example. If the discounted amount is 0, the amount due is $0.23 USD (0.23583667 – 0 – 0.00583667).

• ELB expenditure details

  Expenditure details can be displayed in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the ELB bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

  Table 2 ELB expenditure details

  Cloud Service	Elastic Load Balance (ELB)
  Load Balancer Type	Dedicated
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use
  Resource Name/ID	Specifies the load balancer name and ID. Example: elb-927f, 3ce7ffd0-e00b-47bc-815a-b05550be02a3
  Specifications	Specifies the specifications of the load balancer. Dedicated load balancer 2 AZ
  Usage Type	l7_lcu_duration and l4_lcu_duration
  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 load balancers on the ELB Pricing Details page.
  Unit	USD/h (Displayed on the ELB Pricing Details page)
  Usage	Depends on the unit of the unit price, which, for a load balancer, is USD/hour. ELB usage is billed by the hour. In this example, the total usage is 2 hours.
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price In this example, the load balancer is used for two hours, and the unit price is obtained on the ELB Pricing Details page. If the unit price is $0.278 USD/hour, the list price = 2 x $0.278 USD = $0.556 USD.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.