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Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

  • Pay-per-use: a postpaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed by usage duration. You can provision or delete such an ECS at any time.
  • Yearly/Monthly: a prepaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed based on the purchase period. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and applies if the resource usage period can be estimated.

    Yearly/monthly ECSs are periodically paid.

    If you want to use an ECS for a long time, you can change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce cost. For details about the operations, see this section.

Prerequisites

The target ECS is billed in pay-per-use mode.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
  3. Under Computing, click Elastic Cloud Server.
  4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
  5. Click More in the Operation column and select Change Billing Mode from the drop-down list.

    The billing mode of multiple ECSs can be changed in a batch. To do so, perform the following operations:

    1. Select the target ECSs.
    2. Click More on the top of the ECS list and select Change Billing Mode from the drop-down list.
  6. Confirm the target ECS, specify the service duration, and pay for the order as prompted.