Billing charges accrued over the whole month include instances of servers running for the complete 30 days as well as servers running only up to one minute.

整个月累积的收费包含运行整整30天和只运行了一分钟的服务器实例。

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In such a case, a billing model based on gigabytes used determines what the costs of the service per month will be.

在这种情况下，使用基于千兆字节的收费模式来确定每个月服务的成本是多少。

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The billing for most of these elements is on a per-month basis, where each server is decommissioned and returned within a few minutes as initially provisioned.

这些元素大多是按照每月计费，每台服务器在几分钟之内就按初始配置释放并返回。

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