Merge pull request #1294 from influxdata/pricing-changes

Pricing changes

content/v2.0/account-management/billing.md

@@ -33,14 +33,16 @@ products: [cloud]
 Add your payment method and view billing information in the {{< cloud-name "short" >}} user interface (UI).
 
 ## Access billing details
+
+
 1. In the {{< cloud-name "short" >}} UI, select the **user avatar** in the left
    navigation menu, and select **Billing**.
 
     {{< nav-icon "account" >}}
 
 2. Do one of the following:
-    - If you subscribed to an InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 plan through **AWS Marketplace**
+    - If you subscribed to an InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 plan through [**AWS Marketplace**](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B08234JZPS)
-      or **GCP Marketplace**, click the **AWS** or **GCP** link to access your
+      or [**GCP Marketplace**](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/influxdata-public/cloud2-gcp-marketplace-prod?pli=1), click the **AWS** or **GCP** link to access your
       billing and subscription information.
 
     - If you subscribed to an InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 plan through **InfluxData**, complete the following procedures as needed:
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ Add your payment method and view billing information in the {{< cloud-name "shor
 
         View information about:
 
-        - [Usage-based Plan](#view-usage-based-plan-information)
+        - [Usage-Based Plan](#view-usage-based-plan-information)
         - [Free Plan](#view-free-plan-information)
         - [Exceeded rate limits](#exceeded-rate-limits)
         - [Billing cycle](#billing-cycle)

content/v2.0/account-management/data-usage.md

@@ -18,15 +18,13 @@ right corner of your {{< cloud-name "short" >}} user interface (UI) and select *
 
 Find data usage information for the time frame specified in the drop-down at the top of the Usage page.
 
-- **Writes:** Total data in MB written to your {{< cloud-name "short" >}} instance.
+- **Data In:** Total data in MB written to your {{< cloud-name "short" >}} instance.
-- **Reads:** Total data in MB sent as responses to queries from your {{< cloud-name "short" >}} instance.
+- **Data Out:** Total data in MB sent as responses to queries from your {{< cloud-name "short" >}} instance.
-- **Query Duration:** Total time spent processing queries in seconds.
+- **Query Count:** Total number of individual query operations, which include queries, tasks (alerts, notifications) and Data Explorer activity. 
 - **Storage Usage:** Total disk usage in gigabytes.
-- **API Request Count:** The total number of query and write API requests received
+- **API Request Count:** The total number of query and write API requests received during the specified time frame.
-  during the specified time frame.
 - **Usage over the specified time period:** A line graph that visualizes usage over the specified time period.
-- **Rate Limits over the specified time period:** A list of rate limit events over
+- **Rate Limits over the specified time period:** A list of rate limit events over the specified time period.
-  the specified time period.
 
 {{< img-hd src="/img/2-0-cloud-usage.png" />}}
 

content/v2.0/account-management/pricing-plans.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ v2.0/tags: [VPC]
 InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 offers two pricing plans:
 
 - [Free Plan](#free-plan)
-- [Usage-based Plan](#usage-based-plan)
+- [Usage-Based Plan](#usage-based-plan)
 
 <!--To estimate your projected usage costs, use the [InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 pricing calculator](/v2.0/account-management/pricing-calculator/). -->
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Use this plan as much and as long as you want within the Free Plan rate limits:
 
 #### Free Plan rate limits
 
-- **Writes:** 5.1MB every 5 minutes
+- **Data In:** 5.1MB every 5 minutes
 - **Query:** 300MB every 5 minutes
 - **Storage:** 30-day data retention
 {{% note %}}
@@ -47,15 +47,24 @@ Data retention is determined by the time at which data is written to InfluxDB; n
 
 _To remove rate limits, [upgrade to a Usage-based Plan](/v2.0/account-management/billing/#upgrade-to-usage-based-plan)._
 
-## Usage-based Plan
+## Usage-Based Plan
 
-The Usage-based Plan offers more flexibility and ensures you only pay for what you [use](/v2.0/account-management/data-usage/).
+The Usage-Based Plan offers more flexibility and ensures you only pay for what you [use](/v2.0/account-management/data-usage/).
 
-#### Usage-based Plan rate limits
+### Pricing vectors
 
-To protect against any intentional or unintentional harm, Usage-based Plans include soft rate limits:
+The following two vectors determine pricing:
 
-- **Writes:** 300MB every 5 minutes
+- **Data out** is the total sum of the data (measured in GB) returned to the user to answer a query, also known as data transfer costs.
+- **Query count** is the total number of individual query operations. Each individual operation — including
+queries, tasks, alert checks, notifications, and Data Explorer activity — is one billable query operation. Refreshing a dashboard with multiple cells counts as one query operation per cell. A query run through an API request counts as an operation. Failed query or task executions do not add to your query count.
+
+
+### Usage-Based Plan rate limits
+
+To protect against any intentional or unintentional harm, Usage-Based Plans include soft rate limits:
+
+- **Data In:** Write 300MB every 5 minutes
 - **Ingest batch size:** 50MB
 - **Queries:** 3000MB every 5 minutes
 - **Storage:** Unlimited retention