F5 Rule

NCU billing uses the maximum provisioned size in each hour

Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited

Kind: Counting
Statement: NGINX documentation: NCUs are billed on provisioned, not consumed, capacity with a one-hour minimum. (page undated)
Applies when: Resizing a deployment
Applies to: NGINXaaS for Azure
Related metrics: NGINX Capacity Unit (NCU)

Evidence 1

"The minimum usage interval is 1 hour, and the maximum provisioned NCU size is billed for that hour."