With fully integrated Lumen® Edge Bare Metal servers, Control Center enables you to create and manage physical servers (viewing details, editing, deleting) on-demand. Provision bare metal servers on and off as needed with pay-as-you-go flexibility, and host a wide range of apps from a unified interface with ultra-low latency. Ideal for compute-intensive applications like databases, analytics jobs, grid computing, and other workloads requiring consistent performance.
Use the Edge Price Estimator to estimate costs for your Edge Computing Solutions based on location, operating systems, networks, and server configurations. As the Edge Computing Solutions platform expands and evolves, the Edge Price Estimator enables you to calculate dynamic estimates for all of your Edge solutions in one tool. With the Edge Price Estimator, you can save, download, and share the estimate by clicking Share/Save Estimate then, choose an action:
Edge Bare Metal enables self-service cost management with your bare metal servers and associated networks. After you provision a bare metal server, your account automatically enters a pay-as-you-go model granting you the ability to provision and delete bare metal servers on-demand as your budget and business needs change. You can also enter into a term-based billing contract with discounts. To learn more about term-based billing, contact your Lumen account specialist.
Billing starts after you successfully provision a bare metal. You are billed based on the configuration selections made for each bare metal server instance created. You are invoiced monthly, in arrears, for your total Edge Services billable charges for active services during that billing period.
The power states and applicable billing for a bare metal server are as follows:
Lumen charges for deleted bare metal servers based on the configuration, network charges, and other applicable services tied to the server during the up time of the server during a billing cycle.
For current features, pricing estimates, and supported currencies, visit the Edge Price Estimator.
Provisioning a bare metal server has the following cost:
You can view your Edge Computing Solutions invoices online. All Edge Computing Solutions (Edge Bare Metal, Edge Network) and any additional billable add-on services tied to your Edge Services account show on a consolidated invoice.
Control Center lists your current invoice and previous 18 months of invoices.
Accounts billed under a US operating entity
For accounts billed under a US operating entity in USD, you can pay your invoice in several ways:
Learn more about managing payments using Control Center
*Lumen changes a convenience fee (per account) when paying by credit or debit card.
Accounts billed under a non-USD operating entity
For accounts billed under a non-USD operating entity, you can pay your invoice in two ways:
You can stop all billing by deleting all of your bare metal servers and networks, and will be charged a final bill of service for the usage on the last billing cycle.
After you delete all servers and networks, you can choose to keep your Control Center user profile. This gives you the flexibility to easily access Edge Bare Metal for any future business needs. If you want to stop managing Edge Bare Metal services, contact your Lumen representative or the Lumen Edge Customer Care team.
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