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Volcano Engine Function as a Service

Billing

Overdue description

If the available amount in your account (including the balance left and coupons) is smaller than the bill amount to be settled, then it will be considered overdue. You will receive SMS or email notification of insufficient balance. You can view overdue details on the Bill management page.

Overdue description

The Volcano Engine will regularly check whether the balance in your Volcano Engine account is sufficient to pay for the orders/bills fees of all the products/services on the platform. If your account balance is insufficient or your account balance is less than zero and is a negative value, then it is considered overdue. When your account is overdue, the Volcano Engine will send an overdue notification to you through including but not limited to in-site messages or emails.

After your account is overdue, your resources will be retained, and your use of resources will be limited. After exceeding the retention period of resources, your resources will be withdrawn compulsively. Once withdrawn, the resources cannot be resumed.

Timely Recharge and settle the overdue bills in a specified period and before your resources are withdrawn. Thus, you can normally use Function as a Service resources. After you settle the bills, the overdue and suspended Function as a Service resources will automatically resume.

tip

No matter your resources are frozen or released, you should practically settle the fees of the issued bills.

Overdue handling logic

For the pay-as-you-go Function as a Service, the platform will issue hourly bills. Then the platform settles and deducts the fees after the bills are issued in real time. If the available credit in your account (including account balance and coupons) is less than the bills to be settled, it will be considered overdue. You will receive SMS or email notification of insufficient balance.

The statuses of resources in every phase after overdue are shown in the table below:

Overdue duration	Description
Overdue duration ≤ 2 hours	You can normally use the Function as a Service, and the Function as a Service will issue bills according to your specific usage.
Overdue duration ≤ 7 days	The platform will send notifications to you and suspend the service. After the Function as a Service is suspended, there are the following effects: Only viewing and deleting functions are supported, and creating and modifying functions are not supported. The existing functions will not deal with new requests anymore, and the running functions will continue execution till finish. The timed trigger will suspend timed triggering in the new cycle. Collecting monitoring data of functions will suspend. warning You need to timely recharge your account in the Billing center. After you settle the overdue bills and the available credit in your account is larger than zero, the Function as a Service will automatically resume use.
Overdue duration > 7 days	The platform will send notifications to you and release the resources (that is, to destroy functions). After the resources are released, they cannot be resumed. warning You need to timely recharge your account in the Billing center. Only when your account is recharged and not overdue, you can recreate functions.

Last updated: 2026.08.19 14:06:05