Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly resource, for example, a yearly/monthly GaussDB 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.
• 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 pay-per-use resources, for example, pay-per-use GaussDB instances, are no longer required, delete them in a timely manner.

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.

[Method 1: Use the resource ID in the bill to search for a resource.]

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.

   

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

   The Bills page is displayed.

4. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills and click Bill Details. From there, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource ID
   

5. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB. The GaussDB console is displayed.
6. Select DB instance ID as the filter, enter the resource ID copied in 4, and click the icon to search for the resource.
   Figure 2 Searching for the resource
   

7. Click More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the target DB instance. Ensure that the resource is not found in the list.
   

   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 delete a DB instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.

[Method 2: Use the resource name in the bill to search for a resource.]

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.

   

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

   The Bills page is displayed.

4. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills and click Bill Details. From there, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource name.
   Figure 3 Copying the resource name
   

5. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB. The GaussDB console is displayed.
6. Enter the name of the DB instance copied in 4 in the search box and click .
   Figure 4 Searching for the resource
   

7. Click More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the target DB instance. Ensure that the resource is not found in the list.
   

   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 delete a DB instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.