Basic Concepts¶

Metering Cycle¶

The metering cycle is intended to distinguish the metering data according to the local time zone where the platform service is provided.

Service¶

Refer to the service that the resource involved in the metering belongs to.

Resource Details¶

The metered resource has one or more metering dimensions depending on its business characteristics, such as computing capability and storage capacity, and each entry of resource details corresponds to a different metering unit.

Instance ID¶

For detailed resource data, there may be multiple instances of the same service in an organization at the same time and such instances can generate different metering data. Therefore, the instance ID can be used to distinguish the sources of metering data. In general, an instance ID corresponds to a resource ID.

Resource Quota¶

Refers to the amount of resources that a customer applies for through EnOS’s resource management services or are allocated by the platform by default. There are two ways to allocate resource quota, namely: “pre-application” and “amount-based allocation”.

Pre-application: Users need to apply for a certain amount of resources before they can use the services corresponding to these resources.
- The EnOS platform can settle according to the resource quota applied by users.
- If users need to upgrade to a higher resource quota, they need to apply for and purchase a higher resource quota for capacity expansion; otherwise the corresponding services would be restricted or stopped.
Amount-based allocation: After the user activates a function or service, the EnOS platform will meter the user’s actual consumption of resources without the need for the user to apply for and purchase.

Quota Metering Statistics¶

The metering statistics of resource quota mean that, from the user’s perspective, the amount of resources for each EnOS service that customer pre-applied for or used on the basis of quota is metered in resource unit.