Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

This section describes how to change the billing mode of a GeminiDB Cassandra instance from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly. If you want to use a pay-per-use instance for a long time, change its billing mode to yearly/monthly to reduce costs.

Precautions

Only when the status of a pay-per-use instance is Available, its billing mode can be changed to yearly/monthly.

Changing the Billing Mode of a Single Pay-per-Use Instance to Yearly/Monthly

Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
On the Instances page, locate the target instance and click Change to Yearly/Monthly.

Figure 1 Change to Yearly/Monthly
On the displayed page, select the renewal duration in month. The minimum duration is one month.

If you do not need to modify your settings, click Pay Now.
Select a payment method and click Pay.
View the results on the Instances page.

In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. The instance status will become Available after the change is successful. The billing mode becomes to Yearly/Monthly.

Batch Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
On the Instances page, select the instances whose billing mode you want to change and click Change to Yearly/Monthly above the instance list. In displayed dialog box, click Yes.

Figure 2 Change to Yearly/Monthly
On the displayed page, select the renewal duration in month. The minimum duration is one month.

If you do not need to modify your settings, click Pay Now.
Select a payment method and click Pay.
View the results on the Instances page.

In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. The instance status will become Available after the change is successful. The billing mode changes to Yearly/Monthly.