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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 as 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 console) 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 pay upfront for the amount of time you expect to use the FlexusL for. 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

Compute, 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

EVS disk 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 Price Calculator. The routing type is dynamic BGP.

Expiration and Arrears

  • Yearly/Monthly FlexusL instances will expire after their validity periods end.
  • The pay-per-use resources are settled periodically by referring to Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources. If you do not have a valid payment method configured or your account balance is insufficient, your account will fall into arrears.
    Pay-per-use resources involved in a FlexusL instance are as follows:
    • Excess traffic. A FlexusL instance provides a fixed data package which service traffic can be deducted from by default. Any traffic usage in excess of the package is billed by traffic (on a pay-per-use basis).
    • Other pay-per-use resources associated with the FlexusL instance.
The following describes the impacts if your FlexusL instances expire or if your account is in arrears.

Phase

Impact

Grace period

If your yearly/monthly FlexusL resources are not renewed upon expiration or the pay-per-use resources are in arrears, Huawei Cloud provides a grace period for you to renew or pay for the resources. Resources can be used within the grace period.

Retention period

If you do not renew the yearly/monthly FlexusL instance resources or pay off the arrears for the pay-per-use resources after the grace period expires, the resources will enter the retention period. During the retention period, the resource cannot be used but is 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 pay off the arrears before the retention period ends, your instance will be released. To avoid impact on your services, renew your subscription or top up your account in a timely manner.

Renewal and Repayment

  • 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.

  • Repayment

    If your account is in arrears, your resources cannot be used properly. Pay off the expenditures generated by the pay-per-use resources before the retention period expires.

    For details about repayment, see Making Payments (Postpaid Direct Customers).

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