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How Do I Change the Billing Mode of a VPN Gateway from Pay-per-use to Yearly/Monthly?

Prerequisites

  • The pay-per-use VPN gatewayis billed by bandwidth.

    To change the billing mode of a VPN gateway billed by traffic from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, first change the VPN gateway from being billed by traffic to being billed by bandwidth and then from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

  • The number of created VPN connections is less than 10.
  • The account has at least 10 remaining quotas for creating VPN connections.

Procedure

You can perform the following operations to change the billing mode of a VPN gateway billed by bandwidth from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
  3. Click Service List in the upper left corner. Under Networking, select Virtual Private Network.
  4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Virtual Private Network > VPN Gateways.
  5. On the VPN Gateways page, locate the row that contains the target VPN gateway, choose More > Change Billing Mode in the Operation column.
  6. In the displayed Change Billing Mode dialog box, click OK.
    • The billing mode of a VPN gateway cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use and the VPN gateway bandwidth included in the yearly/monthly subscription cannot be decreased.
    • In the yearly/monthly billing mode, the value of Required VPN Connections is the total number of VPN connections that can be created for the VPN gateway.
    • If you change the billing mode of a VPN gateway from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, the number of VPN connections that can be created for the VPN gateway is 10 after the change by default.
  7. In the displayed Change Billing Mode dialog box, confirm the information about the VPN gateway and configure Renewal Duration.

    Click Pay.

  8. On the payment page, confirm the order information, select coupon or discount, and select the payment method.

    Click Pay.

    Changing the VPN gateway billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly does not affect your service running.

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