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Changing the Billing Mode from Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

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You can change the billing mode of a DB instance from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

The pay-per-use billing mode takes effect only after the yearly/monthly subscription expires, and the auto-renew function will be invalid.

Changing the Billing Mode from Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
  4. On the Instance Management page, locate the target yearly/monthly DB instance and choose More > Change to Pay-per-use in the Operation column.

    Alternatively, click the target DB instance to go to the Basic Information page. In the Billing Information area, click Change in the Billing Mode field.

  5. On the displayed page, change the billing mode of the DB instance.
  6. Wait until the billing mode is successfully changed and view the instance on the Instance Management page.

    In the upper right corner of the DB instance list, click to refresh the list. After the DB instance billing mode is changed to pay-per-use, the instance status will change to Available and the billing mode will change to Pay-per-use.

Parent topic: Billing Management