C Effect of Lifecycle and Administration Operations on Billing
This topic does not apply to Oracle Cloud at Customer.
The following table summarizes the effect that each administration and lifecycle operation has on billing. The first column lists the operations. The other columns show the effect of a given operation on the billing for a specific infrastructure resource.
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Down: After the operation is completed, billing for the resource will decrease or stop.
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Up: Billing for the resource will start, resume, or increase after the operation is completed.
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No effect: The operation has no effect on billing for that resource.
Operation | OCPUs | Block Storage | Object Storage |
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Create an instance | Up | Up | No effect |
Delete the instance | Down | Down | DownFoot 1 |
Stop the instance | Down | No effect | No effect |
Start the instance | Up | No effect | No effect |
Restart the instance | No effect | No effect | No effect |
Stop a node | Down | No effect | No effect |
Scale out a cluster | Up | Up | No effect |
Scale in a cluster | Down | Down | No effect |
Scale up a node | Up | No effect | No effect |
Scale down a node | Down | No effect | No effect |
Add block storage | No effect | Up | No effect |
Take a backup | No effect | No effect | Up |
Take a colocated snapshot | No effect | Up | No effect |
Add Oracle Traffic Director as the load balancer | Up | Up | No effect |
Add an Oracle Traffic Director node | Up | Up | No effect |
Remove an Oracle Traffic Director node | Down | Down | No effect |
Footnote 1 When using the REST API, if you opt for automatic backup of the instance before deletion, then that final backup will be retained in object storage.