CN110009421B

CN110009421B - Method, medium and device for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resource and computing equipment

Info

Publication number: CN110009421B
Application number: CN201910271794.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵忠杰; 张志平; 林晁
Original assignee: Hangzhou Langhe Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hangzhou Netease Shuzhifan Technology Co ltd; Netease Hangzhou Network Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-04
Filing date: 2019-04-04
Publication date: 2022-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 2039-04-04
Also published as: CN110009421A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a method, a medium, a device and a computing device for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resources. The method comprises the following steps: receiving specification information of cloud computing virtual resources selected by a user; determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code; feeding back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources. The embodiment of the invention adopts a uniform charging model to determine the unit price of the virtual resources selected by all users, thereby simplifying the management flow and reducing the development cost and the maintenance cost of the system.

Description

Method, medium and device for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resource and computing equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of cloud computing, in particular to a method, a medium, a device and a computing device for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resources.

Background

This section is intended to provide a background or context to the embodiments of the invention that are recited in the claims. The description herein is not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section.

The current cloud computing virtual resource selling system is operated from a product perspective when managing unit prices of virtual resources, for example, several product types are preset, and each product type includes virtual resources of different types and different configuration levels. When a user selects a certain product type and a use parameter corresponding to the product type, a price calculator corresponding to the product type needs to be called and specific calculation is carried out according to a preset charging protocol so as to obtain corresponding unit price information.

In this case, a special price calculator and a corresponding charging protocol are required to be configured for each product type, and the management process is complicated, the system response capability is poor, and the system maintenance cost is high. Particularly, when a new product type is on line in the cloud computing virtual resource selling system, a new price calculator needs to be developed and a corresponding charging protocol needs to be customized, so that the development cost and the maintenance cost of the system are further increased.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a method and a device for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resources, and a method and a device for charging the cloud computing virtual resources, so as to conveniently and efficiently determine the unit price of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In a first aspect of embodiments of the present invention, a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource is provided, including:

receiving specification information of cloud computing virtual resources selected by a user;

determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item;

determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

feeding back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one embodiment of the invention, the unit price information is used for a charging device to determine the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the charging device determines the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a manner that: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code includes:

acquiring a pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item;

and determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the pricing strategy and the specification code.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource includes:

at least one of a basic specification charging item, an IP resource charging item, a bandwidth resource charging item and a flow resource charging item.

In one embodiment of the present invention,

the pricing strategy corresponding to the basic specification charging item is a fixed pricing strategy; and/or

The pricing strategy corresponding to the IP resource charging item is a fixed pricing strategy; and/or

The pricing strategy corresponding to the bandwidth resource charging item is a step type pricing strategy; and/or

And the pricing strategy corresponding to the flow resource charging item is a dynamic linear pricing strategy.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the determining the specification code of each charging item includes:

determining more than one specification unit contained in each charging item;

determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information;

and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of each specification unit.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the basic specification charging item includes a specification unit including: CPU information, memory information, system disk information, series information of the cloud host and model information of the cloud host;

the specification unit contained in the IP resource charging item comprises: IP information;

the specification unit contained in the bandwidth resource charging item comprises: IP information and bandwidth information;

the specification unit contained in the flow resource charging item comprises: IP information and traffic information.

In a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource, including:

sending specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to a pricing device; the specification information is used for the pricing device to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the pricing device;

and storing unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises:

receiving a message that a user successfully pays the cloud computing virtual resource, and sending an order identification of the cloud computing virtual resource to a service provider of the cloud computing virtual resource;

receiving the instance identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the service provider;

and binding the order identification and the instance identification.

In one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising:

sending unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to a charging device, wherein the unit price information is used for the charging device to determine the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

In a third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a charging method for a cloud computing virtual resource is provided, including:

receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources and the use records of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource includes: usage time of the cloud computing virtual resource and/or usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In a fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining apparatus, including:

the first receiving module is used for receiving specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by a user;

the first determining module is used for determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information and determining a specification code of each charging item;

the second determining module is used for determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

and the feedback module is used for feeding back the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one embodiment of the invention, the unit price information fed back by the feedback module is used for a charging device to determine the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

In an embodiment of the present invention, the second determining module includes:

the second obtaining submodule is used for obtaining the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item;

and the second determining submodule is used for determining the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the pricing strategy and the specification code.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the second obtaining sub-module is configured to obtain a pricing policy corresponding to the basic specification charging item as a fixed pricing policy; and/or obtaining a fixed pricing strategy corresponding to the IP resource charging item; and/or obtaining the pricing strategy corresponding to the bandwidth resource charging item as a step type pricing strategy; and/or obtaining a dynamic linear pricing strategy as the pricing strategy corresponding to the flow resource charging item.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first determining module is configured to determine more than one specification unit included in each of the charging items; determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information; and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of each specification unit.

In a fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a unit price determining apparatus for a cloud computing virtual resource, including:

the specification information sending module is used for sending the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to the pricing device; the specification information is used for the pricing device to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

the second receiving module is used for receiving the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the pricing device;

and the storage module is used for storing the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising:

the order identification sending module is used for receiving a message that a user successfully pays the cloud computing virtual resource and sending the order identification of the cloud computing virtual resource to a service provider of the cloud computing virtual resource;

an instance identifier receiving module, configured to receive an instance identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource, which is fed back by the service provider;

and the binding module is used for binding the order identification and the instance identification.

In one embodiment of the present invention, further comprising:

the unit price information sending module is used for sending unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to a charging device, wherein the unit price information is used for the charging device to determine the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource; the charging device determines the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a manner that: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In a sixth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a charging apparatus for cloud computing virtual resources, including:

the unit price information receiving module is used for receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

and the charge determining module is used for determining the use charge of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources and the use records of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In a seventh aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining system, including the apparatus according to any one of the fourth aspect, the apparatus according to any one of the fifth aspect, and the apparatus according to any one of the sixth aspect of the embodiments of the present invention.

In an eighth aspect of embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements a method as in any one of the embodiments of the present invention.

In a ninth aspect of embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a computing device comprising: memory, processor and computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor implements the steps of the method according to any of the embodiments of the invention.

According to the method and the device for determining the unit price of the cloud computing virtual resource, charging is carried out from the perspective of specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource, products of which types are not concerned, the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user is directly decomposed into various charging items (namely resource types), and then the unit price information of the virtual resource is obtained according to the specification code (namely resource grade) under each charging item. Therefore, the problem that special price calculators and corresponding charging protocols need to be configured respectively due to different product types is solved, unit prices of virtual resources selected by all users can be determined only by one uniform charging model, the management process is simplified, and the system development cost and the system maintenance cost are reduced.

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The above and other objects, features and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which:

fig. 1 schematically shows a first implementation flow chart of a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a flow diagram for implementing a vending process for cloud computing virtual resources according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 schematically shows a flowchart of one implementation of step S13 in the method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 schematically shows a flowchart of one implementation of step S12 in the method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 schematically illustrates a flow diagram for implementing a method for determining unit price information based on specification information, according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 schematically shows an implementation flow chart of a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 schematically illustrates a flowchart of an implementation of a charging method for a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a medium diagram schematically illustrating a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource or a method for charging a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a cloud computing virtual resource unit price first determination device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a second cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a charging apparatus for cloud computing virtual resources according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 schematically shows a structural diagram of a computing device according to an embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings, the same or corresponding reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

Detailed Description

The principles and spirit of the present invention will be described with reference to a number of exemplary embodiments. It is understood that these embodiments are given solely for the purpose of enabling those skilled in the art to better understand and to practice the invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be embodied as a system, apparatus, device, method, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of: entirely hardware, entirely software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.), or a combination of hardware and software.

According to the embodiment of the invention, a method, a medium, a device and a computing device for determining the unit price of the cloud computing virtual resource, and a charging method, a medium, a device and a computing device for the cloud computing virtual resource are provided.

In this document, any number of elements in the drawings is by way of example and not by way of limitation, and any nomenclature is used solely for differentiation and not by way of limitation.

The principles and spirit of the present invention are explained in detail below with reference to several representative embodiments of the invention.

Summary of The Invention

The inventor finds that in the existing cloud computing virtual resource selling system, price calculators need to be separately developed for each cloud computing virtual resource product, so that the cost is high.

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource, which perform uniform abstraction on specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user, and extract a plurality of charging items of the cloud computing virtual resource. The charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resource. And determining the specification code of each charging item according to the specification information selected by the user, wherein the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resource. The unit price information of the corresponding charging items can be determined according to the specification codes, and the unit price information of all the charging items is combined, so that the unit price information of the whole cloud computing virtual resource can be obtained. Therefore, the embodiment of the invention can adopt a uniform charging model for all users, when the specification information of the virtual resource selected by the user is received, the corresponding unit price information is generated according to the specification information, and the generated unit price information is fed back. As the configuration of special calculators and corresponding charging protocols for different types of products is avoided, the management process can be simplified, and the development cost and the maintenance cost of the system are reduced.

Further, the embodiment of the invention also provides a charging method and device for the cloud computing virtual resources.

Having described the general principles of the invention, various non-limiting embodiments of the invention are described in detail below.

Exemplary method

Before introducing the unit price determining method for the cloud computing virtual resource and the charging method for the cloud computing virtual resource provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a system applied by the embodiment of the present invention is first introduced, and functions of each device in the system and information interaction modes between the devices are briefly introduced.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resources. Fig. 1 schematically shows an implementation flow chart of a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the following steps:

step S11: receiving specification information of cloud computing virtual resources selected by a user;

step S12: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item;

step S13: determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

step S14: and feeding back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

Through the process, the corresponding unit price information can be determined according to the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one possible embodiment, the method is applied to a pricing device.

In step S11, the pricing device receives specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource from the ordering device. Specifically, the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource may be selected by a user. The user terminal sends the specification information of the virtual resources selected by the user to the console, the console sends the specification information of the virtual resources selected by the user to the ordering device, and the ordering device sends the specification information of the virtual resources selected by the user to the pricing device.

In step S14, the pricing device feeds back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to the ordering device. The unit price information may be price details.

It should be noted that, in the actual use process, the user may change the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource halfway. In this case, the pricing device still acquires the specification information changed by the user according to the above flow, and then obtains the unit price information of the changed cloud computing virtual resource and feeds the unit price information back to the ordering device. That is, the ordering apparatus stores the cloud computing virtual resource unit price information before and after the change of the user, or even after a plurality of changes, and the charging apparatus may determine the final usage charge based on the plurality of unit price information and the corresponding virtual resource usage record.

In a possible implementation manner, the unit price information may be used by the charging device to determine a usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

The charging device can receive unit price information from the ordering device and receive the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource from the service provider.

The method for determining the price of the cloud computing virtual resource provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a pricing device, and the pricing device is cooperatively matched with other devices in a cloud computing virtual resource selling system to realize selling of the cloud computing virtual resource. The cloud computing virtual resource selling system applied in the embodiment of the invention can comprise: the system comprises a user terminal, a console, an order device, a pricing device, a service provider, a charging device and a payment center.

Fig. 2 schematically shows a flow chart of implementing a selling process of cloud computing virtual resources according to an embodiment of the present invention, including the following steps:

step S201: according to the cloud computing virtual resource product selling specification displayed on the page of the console, a user selects specification information of cloud computing virtual resources required by the user through user terminal equipment. Then, the user terminal transmits the specification information to the console.

Step S202: and the console sends the specification information to an order device to inquire the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user.

Step S203: and the ordering device sends the specification information to the pricing device so as to inquire the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user.

Step S204: the pricing device determines at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user according to the specification information and determines the specification code of each charging item; and determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code. The unit price information may be specifically a price list of the cloud computing virtual resource. And then the pricing device feeds back the unit price information to the ordering device.

Step S205: the order device stores unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource. And sending the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to a console.

Step S206: and the console displays the received unit price information to the user terminal.

Step S207: and paying the order of the cloud computing virtual resource by the user through the user terminal, and sending payment information to the console by the user terminal.

Step S208: the console sends the payment information to the ordering device, and the ordering device forwards the payment information to the payment center.

Step S209: and the payment center deducts money of the amount, the voucher, the credit line and the like of the user, completes payment of the cloud computing virtual resource and feeds back a payment success message to the order device.

Step S210: and the ordering device sends the successful payment message to the console, and the console displays the payment result to the user terminal.

Step S211: and the order device sends the order identification of the cloud computing virtual resource to a service provider according to the payment success message, and instructs the service provider to create the instance of the cloud computing virtual resource.

Step S212: and the service provider creates an instance of the cloud computing virtual resource and feeds back an instance identifier to the order device.

Step S213: and the order device binds the order identifier and the instance identifier.

The foregoing steps complete the selection, pricing, payment, and instance creation processes for the cloud computing virtual resources. Subsequently, after the user uses the cloud computing virtual resource for a period, a usage bill of the cloud computing virtual resource may be generated. The method specifically comprises the following steps:

step S214: and the service provider counts the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource by the user and reports the usage record to the charging device at regular time.

Step S215: the charging device receives unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource from the order device, and determines the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record.

The selling process of the cloud computing virtual resources in the embodiment of the invention is introduced. The method for determining the price of the cloud computing virtual resource provided by the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a pricing device in a selling system, and the selling of the cloud computing virtual resource is realized.

Fig. 3 schematically shows an implementation flowchart of step S13 in the method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention, including:

step S131: acquiring a pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item;

step S132: and determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the pricing strategy and the specification codes.

In a possible implementation manner, the at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource determined in step S12 includes: at least one of a basic specification charging item, an IP resource charging item, a bandwidth resource charging item and a flow resource charging item.

And the pricing strategy corresponding to the basic specification charging item is a fixed pricing strategy. For example, the usage cost per hour, the usage cost per month, or the usage cost per year is determined by pricing the usage time of the infrastructure of the cloud computing virtual resource.

And the pricing strategy corresponding to the IP resource charging item is a fixed pricing strategy. For example, the use fee per hour, the use fee per month, or the use fee per year, etc. are determined in accordance with the use time pricing of the IP resources.

The pricing strategy corresponding to the bandwidth resource charging item is a step type pricing strategy. For example, the bandwidth range is divided into at least two sections, and the usage cost per unit time is determined for each section.

And the pricing strategy corresponding to the flow resource charging item is a dynamic linear pricing strategy. For example, the traffic resource actually used by the user is priced according to the traffic unit, such as the usage cost per GB of traffic is determined.

Fig. 4 schematically shows an implementation flowchart of step S12 in the method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention, including:

step S121: determining more than one specification unit contained in each charging item;

step S122: determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information;

step S123: and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of each specification unit.

In a possible embodiment, the above-mentioned basic specification charging item includes a specification unit including: CPU information, memory information, system disk information, series information of the cloud host and model information of the cloud host;

Fig. 5 schematically shows a flowchart of an implementation of a method for determining unit price information from specification information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 5, at least one charging item (represented by Standard datemtgroup) may be determined according to the specification information (represented by Standard) of the cloud computing virtual resource, where each charging item includes at least one specification unit (represented by Standard datem). One charging item corresponds to one pricing policy. The specification information carries specific values of each specification unit. For a charging item, the specific values of each specification unit contained in the charging item are extracted, and the values are combined to obtain the specification code (represented by a specification code) of the charging item. And according to the specification code and the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item, unit price information of the charging item can be determined. And combining the unit price information of all the charging items to obtain the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource.

Two specific embodiments for determining the unit price information according to the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource are described below.

The first embodiment is as follows:

in this embodiment, the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user are: 1 core Central Processing Unit (CPU), 2GB memory, 20GB system disk, series 1, type 1 cloud computing virtual resource; and the cloud computing virtual resource has a life cycle IP, the bandwidth is 10M, and the charging is carried out according to the bandwidth.

The specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource is (CPU: 1CPU, memory: 2GB, system disk: 20GB, series: series 1, model: model 1, IP: IP with life cycle, bandwidth: 10M), and the formatting form is { "CPU": 1, "memory": 2, "ssd": 20, "series": 1, "type": 1, "ip": "basic", "bandwidth": 10}.

Determining three charging items of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, wherein the three charging items comprise:

(1) basic specification charging item, the corresponding mark can be nws.

(2) IP resource charging item, the corresponding mark can be nws.ip;

(3) bandwidth resource charging item, the corresponding identifier may be nws.

The specification units included in the respective charging items are as follows:

(1) the basic specification charging item comprises the following specification units: CPU information, memory information, system disk information, series information of the cloud host and model information of the cloud host;

(2) the IP resource charging item comprises the following specification units: IP information;

(3) the specification unit contained in the bandwidth resource charging item is: IP information and bandwidth information.

And determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of the specification unit. The method comprises the following specific steps:

(1) the value of each specification unit of the basic specification charging item is as follows:

CPU information: 1, nucleus;

memory information: 2 GB;

system disk information: 20 GB;

series information of the cloud host: series 1

Model information of the cloud host; type 1.

According to the value of the specification unit, the specification code of the basic specification charging item is determined as follows: nws. basic. s1t1-1c2m20 g. The specification code represents the specification information of the basic specification charging item part as (CPU: 1CPU, memory: 2GB, system disk: 20GB, series: series 1, model: model 1), and the format form is { "CPU": 1, "memory": 2, "ssd": 20, "series": 1, "type": 1}.

(2) The value of the specification unit of the IP resource charging item is as follows:

IP information: with a life cycle IP.

According to the value of the specification unit, the specification code of the IP resource charging item is determined as follows: ip. The specification code represents the specification information of IP resource charging item portion as (IP: basic), and the format form is { "IP": basic "}

(3) The value of the specification unit of the bandwidth resource charging item is as follows:

IP information: IP with life cycle;

bandwidth information: 5M to 100M.

According to the value of the specification unit, the specification code of the bandwidth resource charging item is determined as follows: winter. The specification code represents the specification information of the bandwidth resource charging item part as (IP: basic, bandwidth: 5-100M), and the format form is { "IP": "basic", "bandwidth": "5-100"}.

When unit price information is determined according to the charging items and the specification codes, the following steps are respectively executed for the three charging items:

(1) and aiming at the basic specification charging item, determining that the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item is a fixed pricing strategy. According to the fixed pricing strategy, the specification codes (namely nws. basic. s1t1-1c2m20g) of the basic specification charging items and the pricing (taking the value as 0.262 yuan/hour in the embodiment) of nws. basic. s1t1-1c2m20g, the unit price information corresponding to the basic specification charging items is determined to be 0.262 yuan/hour.

(2) And aiming at the IP resource charging item, determining that the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item is a fixed pricing strategy. According to the fixed pricing strategy, the specification code of the IP resource charging item (namely nws. IP. basic) and the pricing of nws. IP. basic (in this embodiment, the value is 0.004 yuan/hour), the unit price information corresponding to the basic specification charging item is determined to be 0.004 yuan/hour.

(3) And aiming at the bandwidth resource charging item, determining that the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item is a step type pricing strategy. In this embodiment, (0, 5M) is the first step, (5M, 100M) is the second step, the pricing of the first step is 0.03 yuan/hour, and the pricing of the second step is 0.1 yuan/hour, according to the pricing strategy of the steps, the specification code of the bandwidth resource charging item (i.e. nws. bandwidth. range2) and the pricing of nws. bandwidth. range2, when the bandwidth is 10M, the corresponding unit price information of the bandwidth resource charging item is determined to be 5 × 0.03 yuan/hour + (10-5) × 0.1 yuan/hour — 0.65 yuan/hour.

And synthesizing the above contents to obtain unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource, wherein the unit price information can be represented in a price detail mode. In this example, the price list is shown in tables 1 to 4 below. Wherein. Table 1 is the public part of the price detail; tables 2 to 4 are the price list of the basic specification charging item, the price list of the IP resource charging item, and the price list of the bandwidth resource charging item, respectively.

TABLE 1 common part

TABLE 2 price details of basic Specification billing terms

Charging item	nws.basic
		Standard code	nws.basic.s1t1-1c2m20g
Value taking	0 (static specification, no dose)
		Number of	1
Unit price information	0.262 yuan/hr

TABLE 3 IP resources accounting entry price detail

TABLE 4 price details of Bandwidth resource billing terms

Charging item	nws.bandwidth
		Standard code	nws.bandwidth.range2
Value taking	10(10M Bandwidth)
		Number of	1
Unit price information	0.65 yuan/hr

In this embodiment, the number (factor) in the table represents the number of shards of the cloud computing virtual resource. In this embodiment, if the value of the factor is 1, the contents in the price specification are integrated, and the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user is: 0.262 yuan/hr +0.004 yuan/hr +0.65 yuan/hr-0.916 yuan/hr. When the value of the factor is N (N is an integer greater than 1), the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource is (0.916 × N) yuan/hour.

Example two:

in this embodiment, the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user are: 1 core Central Processing Unit (CPU), 2GB memory, 20GB system disk, series 1, type 1 cloud computing virtual resource; and, the cloud computing virtual resource takes a life cycle IP and charges according to the flow.

The specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource is (CPU: 1CPU, memory: 2GB, system disk: 20GB, series: series 1, model: model 1, IP with life cycle IP, flow rate: charging according to actual usage), and the formatting form is { "CPU": 1, "memory": 2, "ssd": 20, "series": 1, "type": 1, "ip": "basic", "traffic": "0-"}.

(1) basic specification charging item, the corresponding mark can be nws.

(2) IP resource charging item, the corresponding mark can be nws.ip;

(3) and the corresponding identifier of the traffic resource charging item can be nws.

(3) the flow resource charging item comprises the following specification units: IP information and traffic information.

And determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of the specification unit. The determination method of the specification codes of the basic specification charging item and the IP resource charging item is the same as that in the above embodiment, and is not described again. The determination mode of the specification code of the flow resource charging item is as follows:

firstly, the value of a specification unit of a flow resource charging item is determined as follows:

IP information: IP with life cycle;

and (3) traffic information: and charging according to the actual usage amount.

According to the value of the specification unit, the specification code of the bandwidth resource charging item is determined as follows: network, range 1. The specification code represents the specification information of the bandwidth resource charging item part as (IP: basic, flow: charging according to actual usage), and the format form is { "IP": "basic", "traffic": "0-"}.

And then, determining the unit price information of the three charging items according to the charging items and the specification codes. The determining method of the unit price information of the basic specification charging item and the IP resource charging item is the same as that in the above embodiment, and is not described again. And aiming at the flow resource charging item, determining the pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item as a dynamic linear pricing strategy. In this embodiment, if the pricing of the traffic is 0.79/GB, it is determined that the unit price information corresponding to the traffic resource charging item is (0.79/GB traffic actual usage).

And synthesizing the above contents to obtain unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource, wherein the unit price information can be represented in a price detail mode. In this embodiment, the price list includes a public part, a price list of a basic specification charging item, a price list of an IP resource charging item, and a price list of a traffic resource charging item. The price details of the public part, the basic specification charging item, and the price details table of the IP resource charging item are the same as table 1, table 2, and table 3 in the above embodiment, respectively, and are not described again. Table 5 below shows the price details of the traffic resource charging items in this embodiment.

TABLE 5 price details of flow resource billing terms

In this embodiment, the number (factor) in the table represents the number of shards of the cloud computing virtual resource. In this embodiment, if the value of the factor is 1, the contents in the price specification are integrated, and the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user is: 0.266 yuan/hr +0.79 flow actual usage. When the value of the factor is N (N is an integer greater than 1), the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource is the unit price information × N.

As can be seen from the foregoing embodiments, when a user purchases a cloud computing virtual resource, the method provided in the embodiments of the present invention can determine unit price information according to specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user by using a uniform charging model, and feed back the unit price information to an order device. After the user uses the cloud computing virtual resource for a period of time, the ordering device may provide the unit price information to the charging device, so that the charging device charges according to the unit price information and the usage information of the cloud computing virtual resource. The same pricing system is adopted in the purchasing and charging processes, so that the risk of inconsistent foreground and background data can be reduced, and the billing accuracy rate is improved.

Fig. 6 schematically shows an implementation flow chart of a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining method according to an embodiment of the present invention, including the following steps:

step S61: sending specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to a pricing device; the specification information is used for determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource by the pricing device; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

step S62: receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources fed back by the pricing device;

step S63: and storing unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one possible embodiment, the method is applied to an ordering device. Through the above process, when the user purchases the cloud computing virtual resource, the ordering device can obtain the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user from the pricing device.

As shown in fig. 6, the method may further include:

step S64: receiving a message that a user successfully pays the cloud computing virtual resource, and sending an order identification of the cloud computing virtual resource to a service provider of the cloud computing virtual resource;

step S65: receiving an instance identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by a service provider;

step S66: and binding the order identification and the instance identification.

Through the process, the order device can establish the corresponding relation between the order and the instance of the cloud computing virtual resource so as to charge the cloud computing virtual resource in the subsequent process.

As shown in fig. 6, the method may further include:

step S67: sending unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to a charging device, wherein the unit price information is used for determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource by the charging device.

The charging device determines the use charge of the cloud computing virtual resource in a mode that: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

Through the process, the charging device can determine the use cost according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource. The unit price information is the same as the unit price information acquired by the order device when the user orders the cloud computing virtual resources, so that the unification of foreground pricing and background pricing can be ensured, the risk of data inconsistency is avoided, and the bill accuracy rate is improved.

Fig. 7 schematically shows an implementation flowchart of a charging method for a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the implementation flowchart includes:

step S71: receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

step S72: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources and the use records of the cloud computing virtual resources.

In one possible embodiment, the method is applied to a charging device.

In one possible embodiment, the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource includes: usage time of the cloud computing virtual resource and/or usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource.

For the part of the cloud computing virtual resource whose usage amount per hour is fixed, such as the basic specification charging item, the IP resource charging item, and the bandwidth resource charging item in the foregoing embodiment, the usage cost may be determined by using the usage time and the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource. The charging device can automatically determine the use time of the cloud computing virtual resources, and the use time can be determined according to the current time and the order starting time of the cloud computing virtual resources. For a part of the cloud computing virtual resources, where the usage amount per hour is not fixed, such as the bandwidth resource charging item in the foregoing embodiment, the usage amount and the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources may be used to determine the usage cost. The charging device may obtain the usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource from the service provider, for example, the service provider may periodically push the usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource to the charging device.

The unit price determining method and the charging method of the cloud computing virtual resources in the order type service are introduced. In non-ordering type services, the charging device directly inquires unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources from the pricing device according to the usage records of the cloud computing virtual resources, and determines the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the usage records and the unit price information.

Exemplary Medium

Having described the method of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the medium of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention will next be described with reference to fig. 8. Fig. 8 is a medium diagram schematically illustrating a method for determining a unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource or a method for charging a cloud computing virtual resource according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In some possible embodiments, aspects of the invention may also be implemented as a computer-readable medium, on which a program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to carry out the steps of the method according to various exemplary embodiments of the invention, as described in the "exemplary methods" section of this specification above.

Specifically, the processor is configured to implement the following steps when executing the program:

determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item;

determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

and feeding back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

Or, the processor is configured to implement the following steps when executing the program:

sending specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to a pricing device; the specification information is used for determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource by the pricing device; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources fed back by the pricing device;

and storing unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources.

receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

It should be noted that: the above-mentioned medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. The readable storage medium may be, for example but not limited to: an electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination thereof. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium include: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

As shown in fig. 8, a medium 80 that can employ a portable compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) and include a program and can be run on a device according to an embodiment of the present invention is described. However, the invention is not limited in this respect, and in this document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

A readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take a variety of forms, including, but not limited to: an electromagnetic signal, an optical signal, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A readable signal medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user computing device, partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of a remote computing device, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN).

Exemplary devices

Having described the media of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the apparatus of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention will next be described with reference to fig. 9, 10, and 11.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a cloud computing virtual resource unit price first determination device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 9, a cloud computing virtual resource unit price first determination device 90 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include:

a first receiving module 91, configured to receive specification information of a cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user;

the first determining module 92 is configured to determine at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determine a specification code of each charging item;

the second determining module 93 is configured to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

and a feedback module 94, configured to feed back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In one possible implementation, the apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention is embodied as a pricing apparatus in the system described above.

In one possible embodiment, the unit price information fed back by the feedback module 94 is used for the charging device to determine the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the charging device determines the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a mode that: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In one possible implementation, the second determining module 93 includes:

the second obtaining sub-module 931, configured to obtain a pricing policy corresponding to the charging item;

and the second determining submodule 932 is configured to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the pricing strategy and the specification code.

In one possible embodiment, the at least one charging item for the cloud computing virtual resource comprises:

In a possible implementation manner, the second obtaining sub-module 931 is configured to obtain an invoicing policy corresponding to the basic specification charging item as a fixed invoicing policy; and/or obtaining a fixed pricing strategy corresponding to the IP resource charging item; and/or obtaining a pricing strategy corresponding to the bandwidth resource charging item as a step type pricing strategy; and/or obtaining a dynamic linear pricing strategy as the pricing strategy corresponding to the flow resource charging item.

In a possible implementation manner, the first determining module 92 is configured to determine more than one specification unit included in each charging item; determining the value of each specification unit according to the specification information; and determining the specification code of each charging item according to the value of each specification unit.

In one possible embodiment, the base specification charging item comprises a specification unit comprising: CPU information, memory information, system disk information, series information of the cloud host and model information of the cloud host;

Fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a second cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 10, the second determining apparatus 100 for unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource according to the embodiment of the present invention may include:

the specification information sending module 101 is used for sending specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user to the pricing device; the specification information is used for determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource by the pricing device; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

the second receiving module 102 is configured to receive unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the pricing device;

the saving module 103 is configured to save unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource.

In a possible implementation manner, the device of the embodiment of the present invention may be an ordering device in the system.

In a possible embodiment, the above apparatus further comprises:

the order identification sending module 104 is configured to receive a message that a user successfully pays for the cloud computing virtual resource, and send an order identification of the cloud computing virtual resource to a service provider of the cloud computing virtual resource;

an instance identifier receiving module 105, configured to receive an instance identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the service provider;

and a binding module 106, configured to bind the order identifier and the instance identifier.

In one possible embodiment, the method further comprises:

a unit price information sending module 107, configured to send unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to the charging apparatus, where the unit price information is used for the charging apparatus to determine a usage charge of the cloud computing virtual resource; the charging device determines the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a mode that: and determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

Fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a charging apparatus for cloud computing virtual resources according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 11, the charging apparatus 110 for cloud computing virtual resources according to the embodiment of the present invention may include:

a unit price information receiving module 111, configured to receive unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following manner: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user, and determining the specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the charging items and the specification codes;

and a cost determining module 112, configured to determine a cost for using the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource and the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a system for determining unit price of cloud computing virtual resources, and as shown in fig. 12, the system for charging cloud computing virtual resources according to the embodiment of the present invention may include:

the system comprises a cloud computing virtual resource unit price first determining device 90, a cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determining device 100 and a cloud computing virtual resource charging device 110. The cloud computing virtual resource unit price first determination device 90 may be a pricing device, and the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determination device 100 may be an order device. The functions of the devices have been described in the foregoing embodiments, and are not described in detail herein.

Fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 12, the charging system for cloud computing virtual resources according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

the console 121 is configured to receive specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user from the user terminal, and forward the specification information to the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determining device 100; and is further configured to receive unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource from the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determination device 100, and present the unit price information.

And the service provider device 122 is configured to receive the order identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource from the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determining device 100, create an instance of the cloud computing virtual resource, and feed back the instance identifier of the cloud computing virtual resource to the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determining device 100. And is also used for reporting the usage record of the cloud computing virtual resource to the charging device 110 of the cloud computing virtual resource.

The payment center 123 is configured to receive payment information of the cloud computing virtual resource from the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determination device 100, perform payment on the cloud computing virtual resource, and feed back a payment success message to the cloud computing virtual resource unit price second determination device 100.

Exemplary computing device

Having described the method, medium, and apparatus of exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a computing device of exemplary embodiments of the present invention is described next with reference to FIG. 13.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present invention may be embodied as a system, method or program product. Thus, various aspects of the invention may be embodied in the form of: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, microcode, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" system.

In some possible implementations, a computing device according to an embodiment of the invention may include at least one processing unit and at least one memory unit. Wherein the storage unit stores program code that, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to perform the steps in the song recommendation list generation method according to various exemplary embodiments of the present invention described in the above section "exemplary method" of the present specification.

The computing device 130 according to this embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to fig. 13.

FIG. 13 schematically shows a structural diagram of a computing device according to an embodiment of the invention. The computing device 130 shown in FIG. 13 is only one example and should not impose any limitations on the functionality or scope of use of embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 13, computing device 130 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. Components of computing device 130 may include, but are not limited to: the at least one processing unit 1301 and the at least one storage unit 1302 are connected to a bus 1303 of different system components (including the processing unit 1301 and the storage unit 1302).

The bus 1303 includes a data bus, a control bus, and an address bus.

The storage unit 1302 may include readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as Random Access Memory (RAM)13021 and/or cache memory 13022, and may further include readable media in the form of non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) 13023.

The storage unit 1302 may also include a program/utility 13025 having a set (at least one) of program modules 13024, such program modules 13024 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which, or some combination thereof, may comprise an implementation of a network environment.

The computing device 130 may also communicate with one or more external devices 1304 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, etc.). Such communication may occur via an input/output (I/O) interface 1305. Also, the computing device 130 may communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network, such as the internet) via the network adapter 1306. As shown in FIG. 13, the network adapter 1306 communicates with the other modules of the computing device 130 via the bus 1303. It should be understood that although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with computing device 130, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems, among others.

It should be noted that although several units/modules or sub-units/modules of an embodiment apparatus of the present invention are mentioned in the above detailed description, such division is merely exemplary and not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functionality of two or more of the units/modules described above may be embodied in one unit/module according to embodiments of the invention. Conversely, the features and functions of one unit/module described above may be further divided into embodiments by a plurality of units/modules.

Moreover, while the operations of the method of the invention are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this does not require or imply that the operations must be performed in this particular order, or that all of the illustrated operations must be performed, to achieve desirable results. Additionally or alternatively, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps combined into one step execution, and/or one step broken down into multiple step executions.

While the spirit and principles of the invention have been described with reference to several particular embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, nor is the division of aspects, which is for convenience only as the features in such aspects may not be combined to benefit. The invention is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the pricing device receives specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by the user from the order device; the specification information is received by the order device from a console, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the console, and the specification information is determined by the user terminal according to the selection of a user and is sent to the console;

the pricing device determines at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information and determines a specification code of each charging item; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resource, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the pricing device determines unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code;

the pricing device feeds back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to the order device;

wherein the unit price information is used for a charging device to determine the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the charging device determines the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a manner that: determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code comprises:

acquiring a pricing strategy corresponding to the charging item;

determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the pricing strategy and the specification code;

the at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource comprises:

at least one item of basic specification charging item, IP resource charging item, bandwidth resource charging item and flow resource charging item;

wherein, the determining the specification code of each charging item comprises:

determining more than one specification unit contained in each charging item;

2. The method of claim 1,

3. The method of claim 1,

the basic specification charging item comprises the specification units comprising: CPU information, memory information, system disk information, series information of the cloud host and model information of the cloud host;

4. A method for determining unit price of a cloud computing virtual resource is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the ordering device sends specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to the pricing device; the specification information is received by the order device from a console, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the console, and the specification information is determined by the user terminal according to the selection of a user and is sent to the console; the specification information is used for the pricing device to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resource, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the order device receives unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource fed back by the pricing device;

the order device stores unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource;

further comprising:

wherein the specification code is determined by:

the pricing device determines more than one specification unit contained in each charging item;

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

and binding the order identification and the instance identification.

6. A charging method for cloud computing virtual resources is characterized by comprising the following steps:

the charging device receives unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: the pricing device determines at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user and determines a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code; the specification information is received by an order device from a control console and sent to the pricing device, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the control console, and the specification information is determined by a user terminal according to user selection and sent to the control console; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resources, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resources;

determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources and the use records of the cloud computing virtual resources;

wherein the at least one charging item for the cloud computing virtual resource comprises:

wherein the specification code is determined by:

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the record of usage of the cloud computing virtual resource comprises: usage time of the cloud computing virtual resource and/or usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource.

8. A cloud computing virtual resource unit price determination device is characterized by comprising:

the first receiving module is used for receiving specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by a user; the specification information is received by an order device from a console, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the console, and the specification information is determined by a user terminal according to the selection of a user and is sent to the console;

the first determining module is used for determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information and determining a specification code of each charging item; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resource, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the feedback module is used for feeding back unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources;

the unit price information fed back by the feedback module is used for a charging device to determine the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the second determining module includes:

the second determining submodule is used for determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the pricing strategy and the specification code;

the first determining module is configured to determine one or more specification units included in each of the charging items;

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second obtaining sub-module is configured to obtain a fixed pricing policy as the pricing policy corresponding to the basic specification charging item; and/or obtaining a fixed pricing strategy corresponding to the IP resource charging item; and/or obtaining the pricing strategy corresponding to the bandwidth resource charging item as a step type pricing strategy; and/or obtaining a dynamic linear pricing strategy as the pricing strategy corresponding to the flow resource charging item.

10. The apparatus of claim 8,

11. A unit price determination device for cloud computing virtual resources is characterized by comprising:

the specification information sending module is used for sending the specification information of the cloud computing virtual resources selected by the user to the pricing device; the specification information is received by an order device from a console, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the console, and the specification information is determined by a user terminal according to the selection of a user and is sent to the console; the specification information is used for the pricing device to determine unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: determining at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the specification information, and determining a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resource, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resource;

the storage module is used for storing the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources;

further comprising:

the unit price information sending module is used for sending unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource to a charging device, wherein the unit price information is used for the charging device to determine the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource; the charging device determines the usage cost of the cloud computing virtual resource in a manner that: determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the unit price information and the use record of the cloud computing virtual resource;

wherein the specification code is determined by:

12. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

13. A charging device for cloud computing virtual resources is characterized by comprising:

the unit price information receiving module is used for receiving unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource; the unit price information is determined in the following mode: the pricing device determines at least one charging item of the cloud computing virtual resource according to specification information of the cloud computing virtual resource selected by a user and determines a specification code of each charging item; determining unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resource according to the charging item and the specification code; the specification information is received by an order device from a control console and sent to the pricing device, the selling specification of the cloud computing virtual resource product is displayed on a page of the control console, and the specification information is determined by a user terminal according to user selection and sent to the control console; the charging item is the minimum unit for charging the cloud computing virtual resources, and the specification code is used for describing a group of specification parameters of the cloud computing virtual resources;

the cost determination module is used for determining the use cost of the cloud computing virtual resources according to the unit price information of the cloud computing virtual resources and the use records of the cloud computing virtual resources;

wherein the specification code is determined by:

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the record of usage of the cloud computing virtual resource comprises: usage time of the cloud computing virtual resource and/or usage amount of the cloud computing virtual resource.

15. A cloud computing virtual resource unit price determining system, characterized by comprising the apparatus of any one of claims 8 to 14.

16. A medium storing a computer program, characterized in that the program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the method according to any one of claims 1-7.

17. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

storage means for storing one or more programs;

the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the method recited in any of claims 1-7.