If the total amount of your account balance, vouchers, and coupons within your Alibaba Cloud account is less than the amount due for Function Compute resources, an overdue payment is generated for your account. You can top up your account in a timely manner to ensure service continuity. We also recommend that you promptly delete any resources that are no longer in use.
Billing cycle
Function Compute resources are billed on an hourly basis. At the start of each billing cycle, the previous cycle's bill is generated, and the corresponding payment is automatically deducted from your account balance or vouchers. For more information, see Billing overview.
Rules for handling overdue payments
Function Compute handles overdue payments based on the following rules:
Overdue for less than 7 days
All Function Compute services are frozen. The following items describe the details:
On-demand instances continue to process in-progress requests. After the requests are processed, functions are no longer executed and cannot process new requests. Provisioned instances are deleted after request execution ends.
Time triggers can no longer trigger function executions in upcoming cycles.
Requests in the asynchronous invocation queue are not processed. After 96 hours, requests that have not been processed are discarded from request queues.
A reminder that Function Compute is about to be shut down is sent at the 12th, 24th, 48th, 72nd, 96th, 120th, 144th and 167th hours since an overdue payment is generated.
Overdue for 7 days or more
Function Compute stops providing services, and requests and tasks are no longer executed. Your function code and configurations are retained. If you want to use Function Compute again, top up your account until all overdue payments are settled.
To avoid business interruptions, make sure that payments are settled in a timely manner.
View overdue payments
Log on to Expenses and Costs. On the Account Overview page, view Current Amount .
You can view the billing details of billable items in each Alibaba Cloud service. For more information, see View billing records.
Resume services
Function Compute is restored after you complete overdue payments. For more information, see What do I do if I have an overdue payment?
If an overdue payment is settled within 96 hours, requests in the asynchronous invocation queue are processed after the service is resumed.
References
Function Compute can be used together with other Alibaba Cloud services, such as Object Storage Service (OSS), Simple Log Service, and EventBridge to meet your diverse business requirements. The billing methods of these Alibaba Cloud services are different, and the billing rules of each service shall prevail.
To ensure that you can use Function Compute as expected, we recommend that you pay attention to the resource usage of both Function Compute and other Alibaba Cloud services, your account balance, and text messages or emails of overdue payment reminders. For more information, see View bills.