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BackDetailed Breakdown of Past Costs
At cloudscale, you only book and pay for what you actually use. This means, for example, that you can change the compute flavor of your servers at any time or even extend volumes during live operations. Despite our simple price structure, this may result in "skewed" prices or potentially in project costs that change from day to day. With the new billing report, you can now see a detailed list of the actual to-the-second costs.
Complete control over costs
If you want to invoice your customers for the costs of specific cloud projects, compile costs for bookkeeping purposes, or simply maintain an overview, you can use the new billing report in our cloud control panel and pull a report on the costs for the required time period. You can select specific days as the start and end dates.
An initial overview shows the overall costs of each project. A separate page for each project then shows the total for the individual types of resources (e.g. all servers, all volumes, etc.) and the exact costs of the specific cloud resources (i.e. individual virtual servers, volumes, etc.). Projects and resources that no longer exist are also shown.
To the second
The listed cloud resources can be "opened up": if there was a change during the selected time period, you can see the individual to-the-second time segments and the associated costs. Although the most common reason for a change is when servers and volumes are scaled, the price adjustments from the year before last and this year are also shown. For technical reasons, there is also a "cut" in time segments if a project was moved from a personal account to an organization. Time stamps marked in blue/green represent the start or end of the time period shown and do not mean a change relating to service or price.
All time stamps in the billing report refer to the Europe/Zurich time zone, irrespective of your settings. This is due to us switching to billing per calendar day last August, where costs are collected throughout the day and taken in full from your account or organization credit shortly after midnight (in the local time zone of Zurich). It goes without saying that you can also select older time periods in the billing report, but for virtual servers it is not possible in all cases to show the compute flavor that was active at that time.
Two hints
All projects and cloud resources in the billing report are shown using the name they currently have or last had (if they have been deleted in the interim). If you are uncertain, you can use the UUID, which is also shown, to check which resources these are specifically.
The "BGP Announcements" right at the bottom of the billing report are a little known pro feature: if you already have your own IP space, but do not wish to run your own infrastructure, you can have the space configured as Floating Networks at cloudscale, thus making virtual servers accessible under your own IPs. Our support team is happy to advise you if required.
Irrespective of how small or large your cloud project is, at cloudscale we want not only technological administration, but also pricing to be straightforward. The new billing report now allows you to retrospectively reconstruct the development and costs of your project in detail – for the exact time period required and at the level of your choice.
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