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Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS):Overdue payments

Last Updated:Jun 26, 2025

If Simple Message Queue (SMQ, formerly MNS) payments remain overdue for over seven days, the service is suspended.

  • Billing cycle: hourly

    View the bill of the previous hour in the SMQ console. Deductions apply to your Alibaba Cloud account balance. A bill is generated within one hour after the current billing cycle ends.

  • Suspension consequences:

    • The SMQ API access is disabled.

    • Resources, such as topics and queues, are permanently deleted.

    • Unprocessed messages are automatically deleted after the specified validity period has ended. After being deleted, they are irrecoverable.