Billing Cycles
A billing cycle defines how often a service is priced and charged — from hourly pay-as-you-go to multi-year subscriptions.
A billing cycle defines how often a service is priced and charged — from hourly pay-as-you-go to multi-year subscriptions.
FIXED_PRORATA aligns billing periods to calendar boundaries and splits partial periods into daily pro-rata (creation date → end of month) plus remaining full month(s) within the cycle.
Hourly billing (also pay-as-you-go or PAYG) charges customers only for the time a service is actually running.
Stoppable service billing controls whether compute charges pause when a Virtual Machine or Kubernetes cluster is stopped (including while resources are suspended/stopped by the customer or by disciplinary / schedule flows).