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Free Tier

Does COS offer a free tier?
Why is my account overdue or charged even if I am on the free tier?

Notification

What types of notifications does COS send?
What are subscribed and non-subscribed messages?
How do I configure the root account and sub-accounts to receive COS notifications?

Billing Mode

What billing method does COS use?
How is the public network downstream traffic in COS generated and billed?
How is the CDN origin-pull traffic billed in COS?
Will fees be charged for requests and traffic generated by data transfer between COS and CVM?
Will traffic fees be incurred by uploading a file to a COS bucket?
Will traffic fees be incurred when Tencent Cloud products in the same region access each other?

Bill

How do I view my bill?
How do I download a bill?
What are billing by bucket and cost allocation by tag?
How do I set billing by bucket and cost allocation by tag?
How do I determine whether bills are generated by bucket?
How is the billing by bucket feature of COS launched?
How do I view the billing statistical period?
What are billing by deduction cycle and billing by billing cycle?
What is the relationship between the billing mode and billing statistical period?
Why did the amount of the bill (by deduction cycle) of the first month “increase” after the upgrade from monthly to daily settlement?

Fee Deduction

Will I be charged immediately after activating COS?
Will file uploads to COS incur fees?
How do I deactivate the COS service and stop being charged?
How will I be charged when storing data in STANDARD_IA for less than 30 days?
How will I be charged when storing data in ARCHIVE for less than 90 days?
How will I be charged when storing data in DEEP ARCHIVE for less than 180 days?
What are data retrieval fees in COS?
Why are the COS read/write request fees zero?

Overdue Payment and Service Suspension

If COS service is suspended due to overdue payment, can I still access and download files via the COS console?

How can I disable the COS service and stop being charged?