WO2023142920A1

WO2023142920A1 - Cloud service billing method and apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2023142920A1
Application number: PCT/CN2023/070331
Authority: WO
Inventors: 付森波; 汤闻达
Original assignee: 华为云计算技术有限公司
Priority date: 2022-01-28
Filing date: 2023-01-04
Publication date: 2023-08-03
Also published as: CN116566756A

Abstract

The present application discloses a cloud service billing method and apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring total resources required by a first cloud service provided for a user; then, acquiring current available resources of a purchased virtual machine of the user, so that it is possible to determine a number of first application resources requiring additional applications according to a relationship between available resources and first application resources simultaneously providing cloud services to a user, which together form a relationship of total resources required by a first cloud service; then, a cost of the first cloud service can be determined can be determined according only to the number of first application resources, and in situations having identical total resources of the first cloud service, it is only necessary to bill for the number of first application resources, thereby reducing the use cost of the cloud service.

Description

A cloud service billing method and device

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application filed with the State Intellectual Property Office of China on January 28, 2022, with the application number 202210109087.0, and the title of the invention is "a cloud service billing method and device", the entire content of which is incorporated by reference in this application.

technical field

The embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of the Internet, and in particular, to a cloud service charging method and device.

Background technique

Cloud service (cloud serving) usually refers to cloud service providers providing users with shared resource services. With the development of Internet technology, cloud services have been rapidly developed and used. At present, cloud service platforms can provide users with various cloud services such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), etc. . Cloud services usually include application platforms, databases, etc., reducing the complexity and maintenance costs of users deploying services independently.

At present, cloud servers in the industry are billed according to the specifications and usage time of resources requested by users, but users often lack the knowledge of accurate resource requirements, resulting in excessive resource applications and low utilization of applied resources, which is equivalent to the cost of cloud services. The use cost is higher.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present application provide a cloud service charging method and device, which are used to reduce the cost of using cloud services.

The first aspect of the embodiment of the present application provides a cloud service billing method, including: obtaining the total resources required by the first cloud service; obtaining the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user; The total required resources determine the first application resources, and the first application resources and available resources are used to provide the first cloud service; the price of the first cloud service is determined according to the quantity of the first application resources.

In the above method, the resources that need to be additionally applied can be determined according to the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user and the total resources required by the first cloud service. The user only needs to purchase and pay for the additionally applied resources to enjoy To the same cloud service, the utilization rate of user resources is improved, and the cost of using cloud service is reduced.

In a possible implementation manner, obtaining the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user includes: receiving an instruction from the user, the instruction indicates a quality of service (quality of service, QoS) level, and the QoS level is used to limit the performance of the virtual machine purchased ; Determine the available resources of the purchased virtual machine according to the QoS level.

In the above-mentioned possible implementation, the user can set the QoS level for the purchased virtual machine. The QoS level can indicate the minimum performance of the purchased virtual machine. Available resources of purchased virtual machines to avoid affecting user experience.

In a possible implementation manner, the method further includes: adjusting the resource allocation of the purchased virtual machine to detect the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations; the above steps determine the available resources of the purchased virtual machine according to the QoS level Including: determining the available resources of the purchased virtual machine according to the QoS level and the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations.

In the above possible implementation mode, the resource supply of the purchased virtual machine is slowly adjusted so that the performance of the purchased virtual machine is reduced to the minimum level indicated by the QoS level, then all adjusted resources are the available resources of the purchased virtual machine, and avoid using The resources of the purchased virtual machine affect the performance of the purchased virtual machine to ensure user experience.

In a possible implementation manner, the above step of obtaining the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user includes: determining the available resources according to the quantity of resources input by the user.

In the above possible implementation manner, the available resources can also be input by the user himself, and the billing system provides idle resources satisfying the QoS level, and the user enters the available resources within the range of the idle resources, so as to improve the flexibility of obtaining available resources.

In a possible implementation manner, the method further includes: determining the service rate of the first cloud service according to the QoS level and the quantity of the first applied resource; the above steps determine the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first applied resource Including: determining the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first application resource and the service fee rate.

In the above possible implementation manners, since the QoS level affects the amount of the first application resources, the number of the first application resources is less than the total resources required by the first cloud service, which reduces the pressure on the cloud service provider to provide the first cloud service , then the service fee rate can be provided for the user's first cloud service fee, and the service fee discount can be carried out on the basis of the quantity of the first application resources and the provision fee of the first cloud service, so as to determine the final first cloud service The price can reduce the user's cloud service usage cost.

In a possible implementation, the method further includes: when the performance of the purchased virtual machine does not meet the QoS level, determining the second application resource that needs to be provided to the user; according to the quantity of the first application resource and the second application resource The quantity determines the new price.

In the above possible implementation manners, when the user is using the first cloud service, the user is still using the resources of the purchased virtual machine. At this time, the available resources of the purchased virtual machine are occupied by the first cloud service, and the performance may not meet the requirements. In the case of QoS level, at this time, the billing system can apply for a second application resource for the user to improve the flexibility of cloud service resource provision, so as to avoid affecting the user experience of the purchased virtual machine.

In a possible implementation manner, after the above steps determine the new price according to the quantity of the first application resource and the quantity of the second application resource, the method further includes: sending a notification to the user, the notification indicating that the first cloud service price changes.

In the above possible implementation manners, the user is reminded of the current price of the first cloud service at any time, so as to improve the user's experience of using the cloud service.

The second aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a cloud service billing device, which can implement the method in the first aspect or any possible implementation manner of the first aspect. The apparatus includes corresponding units or modules for performing the above method. The units or modules included in the device can be realized by means of software and/or hardware. The device can be, for example, a network device, or a chip, a chip system, or a processor that supports the network device to implement the above method, or a logic module or software that can realize all or part of the functions of the network device.

The third aspect of the embodiment of the present application provides a computer device, including: a processor, the processor is coupled with a memory, and the memory is used to store instructions, and when the instructions are executed by the processor, the computer device implements the above first aspect Or the method in any possible implementation manner in the first aspect. The computer device may be, for example, a network device, or a chip or a chip system that supports the network device to implement the above method.

The fourth aspect of the embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium stores instructions, and when the instructions are executed, the computer executes the first aspect or any possibility of the first aspect The method provided by the embodiment.

The fifth aspect of the embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product. The computer program product includes computer program code. When the computer program code is executed, the computer executes the first aspect or any possible implementation of the first aspect. method provided.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of the cloud service management platform provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow diagram of a cloud service charging method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of resource usage of a purchased virtual machine and applied for cloud service provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of usage of another purchased virtual machine and applied cloud service resources provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a cloud service application interface provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another cloud service application interface provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the implementation process of cloud service application provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a cloud service billing device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a computer device provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

Embodiments of the present application are described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Apparently, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, not all of the embodiments. Those of ordinary skill in the art know that, with the development of technology and the emergence of new scenarios, the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application are also applicable to similar technical problems.

The terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present application and the above drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific sequence or sequence. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments described herein can be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprising" and "having", as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, for example, a process, method, system, product or device comprising a sequence of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to the expressly listed instead, may include other steps or elements not explicitly listed or inherent to the process, method, product or apparatus.

The word "exemplary" is used exclusively herein to mean "serving as an example, embodiment, or illustration." Any embodiment described herein as "exemplary" is not necessarily to be construed as superior or better than other embodiments.

In addition, in order to better illustrate the present application, numerous specific details are given in the following specific implementation manners. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present application may be practiced without certain of the specific details. In some instances, methods and means well known to those skilled in the art are not described in detail in order to highlight the gist of the present application.

First, some concepts provided by the embodiments of the present application are explained.

Cloud services are distributed computing, parallel computing, utility computing, network storage technologies, virtualization, load balancing, and content distribution networks. delivery network) and other traditional computer and network technology development fusion product. Cloud services are the accretion, usage, and interaction patterns of Internet-based related services, usually involving the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources over the Internet. Understandably, the cloud is a metaphor for the network, the Internet. In the past, the cloud was often used to represent the telecommunications network in the figure, and later it was also used to abstractly represent the Internet and the underlying infrastructure. In fact, cloud services refer to obtaining required services in an on-demand and easily scalable manner through the network. This kind of service can be Internet technology (internet technology, IT) and software, Internet-related, or other services. It means that computing power can also be circulated as a commodity through the Internet.

In simple terms, multiple customers can share the system resources of a cloud service provider, and they can enjoy professional IT services without setting up any equipment and manpower, which can greatly benefit ordinary entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises. Reduce operating costs.

High-level cloud services: Compared with ordinary virtual machine resources, additional services that are strongly related to specific fields provided by cloud service providers. For example, big data processing, databases, etc., usually include a set of machine resource fees for independent applications and additional service fees. Because the user adopts a dedicated service, it is easy to cause the utilization rate of this part of the resource to be the same as the virtual machine he originally applied for. The cloud service in the embodiment of this application takes the high-end cloud service as an example.

Cycles per instruction (CPI): The average number of instructions required to execute each program instruction is the reciprocal of IPC.

Instructions per cycle (IPC): The average number of instructions executed per clock cycle is the reciprocal of CPI.

The system architecture to which the technical solution of the embodiment of the present application is applied may be a schematic diagram of the architecture of the cloud service management platform as shown in FIG. 1 . As shown in FIG. 1 , the cloud service management platform 100 may include an application website 110 , a billing system 120 and a resource management system 130 . Wherein, the resource management system 130 is connected to the resource pool 140 , and the user 150 can purchase and use cloud service resources in the resource pool 140 through the application website 110 . It should be understood that FIG. 1 only uses a user applying for a cloud service resource as an example for illustration. In actual situations, this application does not specifically limit the number of users and the number of cloud service resources. Moreover, FIG. 1 is only a possible implementation of the cloud service management platform. In practical applications, the cloud service management platform 100 may also include other modules, which are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The application website 110 can be a website of a cloud service platform. The application website 110 can order various cloud services on the current cloud service platform on the application interface of the user's terminal device, and the application interface will also display the resources included in each cloud service. Type, specification, quantity, and price, wherein, the resource type of resource includes the instance (such as virtual machine and container) required by the cloud service and additional services (such as traffic, database type, storage package, etc.), and the specification of resource may include The number of vCPU cores, memory size, and storage package size of the virtual machine. When a user chooses to purchase a certain cloud service resource, the application interface of the cloud service will generate application information, which may include user information, the resource type, specification, quantity, and price ordered by the user.

Wherein, the price on the application interface is determined by the billing system 120 according to the type and quantity of cloud service resources that the user needs to apply for.

The resource management system 130 can monitor and manage the various cloud service resources in the resource pool 140 as a whole, and provide the user 150 with corresponding types and quantities of cloud service resources according to the application information, and then generate various cloud service resources according to the user's usage conditions. Usage records of service resources. The resource management system 130 can also give feedback to the application interface according to the overall situation of various cloud service resources in the resource pool 140, such as feeding back the currently idle cloud computing resources and so on.

The resource pool 140 is used to provide users with various IAAS cloud services, such as cloud hosts, cloud storage, bandwidth, etc., and can also provide users with platform as a service (platform as a service, PaaS) such as relational database service (relational database service). , RDS), software-as-a-service (software-as-a-service, SaaS), etc., can also provide software development cloud and other rich cloud services that can be used through the network, which is not limited in this application.

The user 150 can access the website 110 through a terminal device. Exemplarily, the terminal device can be a mobile phone, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, or a personal desktop computer and the like.

Using cloud resources like water and electricity has always been one of the goals that the cloud computing field continues to pursue. However, so far, no public cloud or private cloud manufacturer in the industry has been able to achieve this goal. Limited by resource extraction and isolation technologies such as computer architecture and software operating system, although the hardware infrastructure in the cloud data center has been interconnected through a high-speed network, the development speed of each module in the cloud data center is severely uneven. For example, the access speed of the memory lags behind the computing speed of the processor, the access speed of the memory and the bandwidth capacity of the Ethernet seriously lag behind the access of the memory. high-speed sharing. If hydropower is compared to a single resource, the acquisition of cloud resources by user applications is not limited to a single resource, but requires multi-dimensional resources such as computing and storage to meet the normal operation of the application. Not only that, in terms of user resource usage experience, if the usage of user resources exceeds the capacity of a single host, there will be significant performance changes. Therefore, virtual machines that are less than or equal to the capacity of a single host are generally distributed.

In view of this, in most scenarios, the user mainly adopts a form of specification subscription for the use of resources in the public cloud, purchasing a quantity of a certain specification and billing according to the contract. There is no flexibility in specifying the specifications of virtual machine instances. At present, the static allocation rate is still the main method for virtual machine (virtual machine, VM) provisioning. Regardless of whether the user actually uses it or not and how much it is used after purchasing, the user will be charged according to the order specification, which causes waste for the user and actually increases the user's cost of using the virtual machine instance in disguise.

In order to solve the above problems, the embodiment of the present application provides a cloud service billing method, combining the available resources of the user's purchased virtual machine and the first application resource to provide the user with the first cloud service, based on the effect of the same cloud service On the one hand, reduce the number of resources that users apply for.

Please refer to FIG. 2 . FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a cloud service charging method provided by an embodiment of the present application, which is specifically described as follows.

Step 201. The billing system acquires the total resources required by the first cloud service.

In this embodiment, generally speaking, when a user purchases a virtual machine to use, he will apply for a cloud service. For example, if the user needs to create a database but does not want to maintain the database, he can apply for the cloud service of the database from the cloud service provider. The cloud service provider maintains a database for this user. Among them, the total resources required by the first cloud service can be the minimum configuration set by the cloud service provider. For example, take the purchase of data processing services (map reduce service, MRS) as an example: users purchase MRS clusters by yearly/monthly subscription , the cluster nodes are configured as two 16-core 32GB master nodes, three 4-core 16GB core nodes, and each master node carries a 40GB system disk by default and plans a 200GB storage space. Each core node carries a 40GB system disk by default and plans to store 100GB of storage space. The total resources required by the first cloud service can also be based on the minimum configuration, and the user can freely increase the number of resources. For example, the user can increase the number of master nodes and core nodes on the application interface.

In this embodiment, after the user purchases a virtual machine, he can select the purchase method of the first cloud service through the application interface, and the cloud service platform provides the user with two purchase methods: the first method is to directly follow the Purchase and bill based on the total resources. The second method is to determine the resources that need to be additionally applied based on the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user and the total resources required by the cloud service. The billing system charges for the additionally applied resources , and apply for resources, and then manage the corresponding number of resources through the resource management system. When the user selects option 2 on the application interface, step 201 is triggered.

Step 202. The billing system obtains the available resources of the purchased virtual machine of the user.

In this embodiment, since the user does not want to maintain the data when applying for the first cloud service, and the data is handed over to the cloud service provider for maintenance, the resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user are not necessarily in an overloaded state. When the resources of the virtual machine are not used up, the remaining unused resources are the resources that can be used as the first cloud service, and the remaining resources are the available resources of the purchased virtual machine. Exemplarily, the purchased virtual machine The used resources are 40%, and the remaining 60% can be used as available resources. When the user's purchased virtual machine has available resources, the available resources are currently idle, and the billing system can obtain the resource usage of the user's purchased virtual machine to obtain the available resources in the user's purchased virtual machine. Wherein, the number of virtual machines purchased by the user may be one or more, and correspondingly, the billing system may determine available resources corresponding to the one or more purchased virtual machines.

In an example, the billing system can directly use the remaining resources of the purchased virtual machine as available resources (such as the remaining specifications of vCPU and memory), or determine the available resources according to the remaining resources of the purchased virtual machine minus the reserved resources, Wherein, the reserved resources are resources for reducing changes in usage performance of virtual machines purchased by users.

In another example, due to the use of the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user, the pressure on the user's original business load will increase, which will not only affect the quality of service (QoS) of the user's own business, but also affect the cloud service. impact on the QoS guarantee. The embodiment of the present application can provide the user with corresponding available resource utilization suggestions by giving the QoS available resource classification of the original service to the user. Different QoS classifications mean the amount of available resources for providing the first cloud service in the virtual machine. In this embodiment, the billing system can acquire available resources by issuing instructions on the application interface to indicate the QoS level of the user's purchased virtual machine, and the billing system can ensure that the load of the purchased virtual machine meets the QoS level Based on the determination of available resources. Exemplarily, the application can configure QoS level options for each virtual machine on the application interface, and each virtual machine can choose any one of high, medium and low.

Specifically, the billing system can determine the available resources of the purchased virtual machine based on the QoS level by performing portrait processing on the user's purchased virtual machine load, and adjusting the purchased virtual machine load during the running period of the purchased virtual machine. Resource allocation, determine the degree of QoS degradation of the purchased virtual machine, and then continue to repeatedly adjust the resource supply of the load, and detect the amount of available resources available for the business load. Exemplarily, the resource supply of the purchased virtual machine is slowly reduced, so that the performance (QoS degradation degree) of the purchased virtual machine reaches the limit degree of allowable degradation, and the limit degree of allowable degradation is limited by the QoS level, then the performance of the virtual machine reaches The reduced resource provisioning that allows the extreme degree of degradation is the available resource for that virtual machine.

The QoS level on the virtual machine can be a QoS level indicating the level of all purchased virtual machines, or each virtual machine is marked with its corresponding QoS level. The QoS level includes high, medium, and low, with different degradations. The degree corresponds to QoS high, medium, and low. The degree of deterioration is characterized by the change of CPI or IPC after the lack of resource supply. Exemplarily, taking IPC as an example, IPC (enough resource supply)/IPC (reduced resource supply) = degree of degradation. The actual value of the specific degradation degree can be configured. For example, "QoS advanced guarantee" corresponds to a degradation degree of 1.2, or any value between 1.1-1.5; "QoS intermediate guarantee" corresponds to a degradation degree of 1.5, or a value between 1.5-2.0 Any value; "QoS low-level guarantee" corresponds to a degradation level of 2.0, or any value between 2.0 and 3.0. The billing system can infinitely approximate the QoS degradation degree corresponding to each virtual machine for each virtual machine, so as to detect the amount of available resources available for the service load.

In another example, the billing system can also display the available resources determined according to the QoS level in the same manner as the previous example on the application interface, and the user can freely input the resources within the scope of the available resources on the application interface. The resources of are used as available resources, which are not limited here. This embodiment takes the second example as an example.

Step 203. The billing system determines the first application resources according to the available resources and the total resources required by the first cloud service, and the first application resources and available resources are used to provide the first cloud service.

In this embodiment, since the amount of total resources required by the cloud service provider to provide the user with the first cloud service is fixed at the current moment, if the user's purchased virtual machine has available resources, the available resources can be used As the resources of the first cloud service, when the number of available resources does not meet the total resources required by the first cloud service, the difference between the total resources required for the first cloud service and the available resources can be provided by the cloud service provider Determine the number of first application resources that the user needs to apply for, and provide the user with the first cloud service in combination with the available resources and the first application resources. The number of resources for the user to apply for the first cloud service is reduced, and the cost of the cloud service is correspondingly saved.

For the current solutions of other cloud service providers, the resource usage of a purchased virtual machine and applied cloud service provided by the embodiment of this application is shown in Figure 3. The user has purchased three virtual machines of the same specification. There are respectively 40%, 20% and 60% of unused resources, while the usage of the virtual machine as a cloud service applied for may be 40%, 80% and 50%. The embodiment of this application provides users with suggestions on the utilization of available resources on the basis of different QoS levels given by users, which is equivalent to choosing to migrate the load on the virtual machine of the cloud service to the unused resources of the purchased virtual machine, as shown in the figure In step 3, migrate the load of 40% of the virtual machines in the cloud service virtual machine to the purchased virtual machines with 60% unused resources, reduce the number of cloud service resource applications, improve the resource utilization of the purchased virtual machines, and reduce Use cost, effect As shown in FIG. 4 , another purchased virtual machine and usage of cloud service resources provided by the embodiment of the present application are shown.

For the specific process of the user applying for resources, refer to the schematic diagram of a cloud service application interface provided by the embodiment of the present application shown in FIG. 5 . Take the three virtual machines purchased by the user as an example, such as VM1, VM2, and VM3. The specifications of the three virtual machines are the same, all of which are 16-core (16U) virtual processors and 32G memory. The total resources required can be 42U and 112GB. Users can choose the QoS level required by the virtual machine from the three given QoS guarantee priorities. Correspondingly, the billing system can calculate the current The available resources that can be provided under the QoS level limit, as shown in Figure 5, the 4U virtual processor and 2GB memory corresponding to VM1 with a high QoS level, and the 8U virtual processor and 24GB memory corresponding to VM2 with a low QoS level, QoS The level is the 4U virtual processor and 16GB memory corresponding to the VM3 in the level. At this point, the interface can also display the summary of available resources and resources that need additional application. For example, the available resources currently available to the user are summarized as 16U virtual processor and 42GB memory, and then it can be determined that the user needs additional application. The number of resources is 28U virtual processors and 70GB memory.

Step 204. The billing system determines the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first applied resource.

In this embodiment, after the billing system determines the quantity of the first application resource, it can determine the usage price of the first application resource requiring an additional application according to the quantity of the first application resource and the price list corresponding to the resource. The price of the cloud service provided by the cloud service provider can be added to the price for the user to use the cloud service.

After the billing system determines the price of the cloud service, the price of the first cloud service can be displayed on the user's application interface through the application website, and after the user's payment is completed, the billing system can provide the user with the additionally applied first application resource. As shown in FIG. 6 , another cloud service application interface is shown. Any position on the application interface in FIG. 5 , such as below the application interface, displays the price of the first cloud service. In FIG. Take 0.3 yuan per hour as an example, which is not limited here.

In this embodiment of the application, the billing system can also determine the service charge rate of the first cloud service price according to the QoS level provided by the user and the quantity of the first application resource, wherein different QoS guarantee levels affect the cloud service charge rate: although Different business loads can obtain different degradation effects after reducing resource supply, but "QoS low-level guarantee" can produce more available resources than other levels under different load conditions, so users can get lower cloud service billing rate. On the contrary, because "QoS Advanced Guarantee" allows a lower degree of degradation, the amount of available resources available is lower than that of "QoS Low-Level Guarantee". As a result, in order to guarantee the QoS of cloud services, more resources will be applied for, resulting in Higher cloud service billing rates. Exemplary, in extreme cases, for example, all the purchased virtual machines have low-level QoS guarantees, and the available resources of the purchased virtual machines meet the requirements of the first cloud service, and there is no need to apply for additional resources. The cloud service provider can use the saved resources It is provided to other users, so a high discount can be set for the current user; if the purchased virtual machines are all QoS advanced guarantees, the cloud service provider needs to provide more resources, so a low discount can be set. However, it should be noted that no matter what QoS guarantee level is adopted, the embodiment of this application can provide certain available resources for providing the first cloud service. Therefore, compared with the traditional cloud service application method, the user adopts the solution of the embodiment of this application The number of additional application resources can be reduced, and more billing discounts can be obtained. The billing system can determine the price of the first cloud service that the user needs to pay finally according to the service rate and the additionally applied first application resources.

Since the user may continue to use the purchased virtual machine to store data after applying for the First Cloud service, but at this time the available resources of the purchased virtual machine have been occupied by the First Cloud service, when the user continues to store data on the purchased virtual machine In this case, the performance of the purchased virtual machine will decrease, for example, the degree of QoS degradation becomes higher. At this time, the degree of QoS degradation of the purchased virtual machine does not meet the original QoS level set for the purchased virtual machine. Secondary scheduling of the load part of the purchased virtual machine used for the first cloud service, for example, migrating the load part used for the first cloud service to the additionally applied second application resource, to avoid continuing to use the available resources of the purchased virtual machine , so that the user can use the first cloud service while ensuring the running performance of the purchased virtual machine. 2. The quantity of applied resources and the provision fee of the first cloud service determine the new price.

After the billing system determines the new price, it can send a notification to the user indicating that the price of the first cloud service has changed, so that the user can send a price query request through the application interface at any time, and the application interface can display the current new price on the application interface. The billing system can also simultaneously record the reason for the price change of the first cloud service, and display it to the user through the application interface.

Specifically, the implementation process of the embodiment of the present application can refer to the schematic diagram of the cloud service application implementation process provided in Figure 7. As shown in Figure 7, step 701: the user initiates the first cloud service application; step 702: the application website is used by the user The QoS level option is displayed on the application interface of the user equipment; step 703: the user selects the QoS level; step 704: the application website sends the QoS level to the billing system; step 705: the billing system obtains the total resources required for the first cloud service, Check the QoS degradation degree to obtain available resources by reducing resource supply, and then determine the price of the first application resource and the first cloud service; Step 706: the billing system sends the available resources, the first application resource and the price of the first cloud service to the application website; step 707: the application website displays the available resources, the price of the first application resource and the price of the first cloud service on the application interface; step 708: the user confirms and pays the fee; step 709: the application website displays the amount of the first application resource Send it to the resource management system, so that the resource management system provides the user with the first cloud service with the corresponding resources in the resource pool; Step 710: When the purchased virtual machine has QoS degradation and does not meet the QoS level, the billing system determines that additional Apply for the second application resource, and determine the new price according to the first application resource and the second application resource; Step 711. The billing system sends the quantity of the second application resource and the new price to the application website; Step 712: Billing The system sends a notification to the user; step 713: the application website sends the quantity of the second application resource to the resource management system, so that the resource management system provides the user with the first cloud service with the corresponding resources in the resource pool; step 714: the user Initiate a price query request to the application website according to the notification; Step 715: The application website displays the quantity of the first application resource, the quantity of the second application resource, and displays the new price.

In the solution of the embodiment of this application, the billing system can obtain the total resources required by the first cloud service, and then obtain the available resources of the purchased virtual machine, which can be determined according to the available resources and the total resources required by the first cloud service. The first application resource that requires an additional application, and then only need to determine the cost of the cloud service according to the number of the additional application first application resources, in the case of the same total resources required by the first cloud service, only the first application resource Billing for the number of available resources does not need to be billed for the number of available resources, reducing the cost of using cloud services.

The method for cloud service billing has been described above, and the device for implementing the method will be described below.

Please refer to FIG. 8 . As shown in FIG. 8 , it is a schematic structural diagram of a cloud service billing device provided by an embodiment of the present application. The device 80 includes:

An obtaining unit 801, configured to obtain the total resources required by the first cloud service and the available resources of the purchased virtual machine of the user;

The determining unit 802 is configured to determine the first application resource according to the available resources and the total resources of the first cloud service, the first application resources and the available resources are used to provide the first cloud service, and determine the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first application resources s price.

Optionally, the obtaining unit 801 is specifically configured to: receive an instruction from a user, the instruction indicates a quality of service (QoS) level, and the QoS level is used to limit the performance of the purchased virtual machine; determine the available resources of the purchased virtual machine according to the QoS level.

Optionally, the device 80 further includes an adjustment unit 803, the adjustment unit 803 is specifically configured to: adjust the resource allocation of the purchased virtual machine, so as to detect the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations; the acquisition unit 801 is specifically configured to: according to The QoS level and the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations determine the available resources of the purchased virtual machine.

Optionally, the obtaining unit 801 is specifically configured to: determine available resources according to the quantity of resources input by the user.

Optionally, the determining unit 802 is further configured to: determine the service charge rate of the first cloud service according to the QoS level and the quantity of the first applied resource; determine the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first applied resource and the service charge rate.

Optionally, the determining unit 802 is also used to: determine the second application resource that needs to be provided to the user when the performance of the purchased virtual machine does not meet the QoS level; new price.

Optionally, the device 80 further includes a sending unit 804, and the receiving unit 804 is specifically configured to: send a notification to the user, the notification indicating that the price of the first cloud service changes.

The acquisition unit 801 of the device 80 is used to execute step 201 and step 202 in the method embodiment of FIG. 2 , and the determination unit 802 of the device 80 is used to execute step 203 and step 204 in the method embodiment of FIG. 2 , which will not be repeated here.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a possible logical structure of a computer device 90 provided by an embodiment of the present application. The computer device 90 includes: a processor 901 , a communication interface 902 , a storage system 903 and a bus 904 . The processor 901 , the communication interface 902 and the storage system 903 are connected to each other through a bus 904 . In the embodiment of the present application, the processor 901 is used to control and manage the actions of the computer device 90, for example, the processor 901 is used to execute the steps performed by the billing system in the method embodiment in FIG. 2 . The communication interface 902 is used to support the computer device 90 to communicate. The storage system 903 is used for storing program codes and data of the computer device 90 .

Wherein, the processor 901 may be a central processing unit, a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array or other programmable logic devices, transistor logic devices, hardware components or any combination thereof. It can implement or execute the various illustrative logical blocks, modules and circuits described in connection with the present disclosure. The processor 901 may also be a combination that implements computing functions, for example, a combination of one or more microprocessors, a combination of a digital signal processor and a microprocessor, and the like. The bus 904 may be a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus or an Extended Industry Standard Architecture (Extended Industry Standard Architecture, EISA) bus or the like. The bus can be divided into address bus, data bus, control bus and so on. For ease of representation, only one thick line is used in FIG. 9 , but it does not mean that there is only one bus or one type of bus.

The sending unit 804 in the device 80 is equivalent to the communication interface 902 in the computer device 90 , and the acquiring unit 801 , determining unit 802 and adjusting unit 803 in the device 80 are equivalent to the processor 901 in the computer device 90 .

The computer device 90 in this embodiment may correspond to the billing device in the above-mentioned method embodiment in FIG. Or the various steps implemented, for the sake of brevity, will not be repeated here.

It should be understood that the division of units in the above device is only a division of logical functions, and may be fully or partially integrated into a physical entity or physically separated during actual implementation. And the units in the device can all be implemented in the form of software called by the processing element; they can also be implemented in the form of hardware; some units can also be implemented in the form of software called by the processing element, and some units can be implemented in the form of hardware. For example, each unit can be a separate processing element, or it can be integrated in a certain chip of the device. In addition, it can also be stored in the memory in the form of a program, which is called and executed by a certain processing element of the device. Function. In addition, all or part of these units can be integrated together, or implemented independently. The processing element mentioned here may also be a processor, which may be an integrated circuit with signal processing capabilities. In the process of implementation, each step of the above method or each unit above may be implemented by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in the processor element or implemented in the form of software called by the processing element.

In one example, the units in any of the above devices may be one or more integrated circuits configured to implement the above method, for example: one or more specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), or, one or Multiple microprocessors (digital signal processor, DSP), or, one or more field programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA), or a combination of at least two of these integrated circuit forms. For another example, when the units in the device can be implemented in the form of a processing element scheduler, the processing element can be a general-purpose processor, such as a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU) or other processors that can call programs. For another example, these units can be integrated together and implemented in the form of a system-on-a-chip (SOC).

In another embodiment of the present application, a computer-readable storage medium is also provided. Computer-executable instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium. When the processor of the device executes the computer-executable instructions, the device executes the above-mentioned method embodiment. The method performed by the billing system in .

In another embodiment of the present application, a computer program product is also provided, the computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, and the computer-executable instructions are stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the processor of the device executes the computer-executed instructions, the device executes the method executed by the billing system in the above method embodiment.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that for the convenience and brevity of the description, the specific working process of the above-described system, device and unit can refer to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, device and method can be implemented in other ways. For example, the device embodiments described above are only illustrative. For example, the division of the units is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be other division methods. For example, multiple units or components can be combined or May be integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored, or not implemented. In another point, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be through some interfaces, and the indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units may be in electrical, mechanical or other forms.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Part or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present application may be integrated into one processing unit, each unit may exist separately physically, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit. The above-mentioned integrated units can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of software functional units.

If the integrated unit is realized in the form of a software function unit and sold or used as an independent product, it can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present application is essentially or part of the contribution to the prior art or all or part of the technical solution can be embodied in the form of a software product, and the computer software product is stored in a storage medium , including several instructions to make a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present application. The aforementioned storage media include: U disk, mobile hard disk, read-only memory (ROM, read-only memory), random access memory (RAM, random access memory), magnetic disk or optical disc, etc., which can store program codes. .

Claims

A cloud service billing method, characterized in that it comprises:

Obtain the total resources required for the First Cloud service;

Obtain the available resources of the purchased virtual machine of the user;

determining a first application resource according to the available resources and total resources required by the first cloud service, where the first application resource and the available resources are used to provide the user with the first cloud service;

The price of the first cloud service is determined according to the quantity of the first application resource.
The method according to claim 1, wherein said obtaining the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user comprises:

receiving an instruction from a user, the instruction indicating a quality of service (QoS) level, and the QoS level is used to limit the performance of the purchased virtual machine;

The available resources of the purchased virtual machine are determined according to the QoS level.
The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

Adjusting the resource allocation of the purchased virtual machine to detect the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations;

The determining the available resources of the purchased virtual machine according to the QoS level includes:

The available resources of the purchased virtual machine are determined according to the QoS level and the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations.
The method according to claim 1, wherein said obtaining the available resources of the virtual machine purchased by the user comprises:

The available resources are determined according to the quantity of resources input by the user.
The method according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the method further comprises:

determining the service fee rate of the first cloud service according to the QoS level and the quantity of the first applied resource;

The determining the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first application resources includes:

The price of the first cloud service is determined according to the quantity of the first applied resource and the service fee rate.
The method according to claim 2, 3 or 5, characterized in that the method further comprises:

When the performance of the purchased virtual machine does not meet the QoS level, determine a second application resource that needs to be provided to the user;

A new price is determined according to the quantity of the first application resource and the quantity of the second application resource.
The method according to claim 6, wherein after the new price is determined according to the quantity of the first application resource and the quantity of the second application resource, the method further comprises:

A notification is sent to the user, the notification indicating that the price of the first cloud service changes.
A cloud service billing device, characterized in that it comprises:

An acquisition unit, configured to acquire the total resources required by the first cloud service and the available resources of the user's purchased virtual machine;

A determining unit, configured to determine a first application resource according to the available resources and the total resources of the first cloud service, the first application resource and the available resources are used to provide the user with the first cloud service , determining the price of the first cloud service according to the quantity of the first application resource.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the acquiring unit is specifically used for:

receiving an instruction from a user, the instruction indicating a quality of service (QoS) level, and the QoS level is used to limit the performance of the purchased virtual machine;

The available resources of the purchased virtual machine are determined according to the QoS level.
The device according to claim 9, wherein the device further comprises an adjustment unit, and the adjustment unit is specifically used for:

Adjusting the resource allocation of the purchased virtual machine to detect the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations;

The acquisition unit is specifically used for:

The available resources of the purchased virtual machine are determined according to the QoS level and the performance of the purchased virtual machine under different resource allocations.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the acquiring unit is specifically used for:

The available resources are determined according to the quantity of resources input by the user.
The device according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the determining unit is further used for:

determining the service fee rate of the first cloud service according to the QoS level and the quantity of the first applied resource;

The price of the first cloud service is determined according to the quantity of the first applied resource and the service fee rate.
The device according to claim 9, 10 or 12, wherein the determination unit is further used for:

When the performance of the purchased virtual machine does not meet the QoS level, determine a second application resource that needs to be provided to the user;

A new price is determined according to the quantity of the first application resource and the quantity of the second application resource.
The device according to claim 13, wherein the device further comprises a sending unit, and the sending unit is specifically used for:

A notification is sent to the user, the notification indicating that the price of the first cloud service changes.
A computer device, characterized in that it includes: a processor coupled to a memory,

The processor is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, so that the computer device executes the method according to any one of claims 1-7.
A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that instructions are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the instructions are executed, the computer executes the method according to any one of claims 1-7.
A computer program product, characterized in that the computer program product includes computer program code, characterized in that, when the computer program code is run on a computer, the computer implements any one of claims 1 to 7. the method described.