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Updated on 2025-10-24 GMT+08:00
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Changing Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

You can change a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Cassandra instance to pay-per-use if you intend to discontinue long-term use once it expires.

Precautions

  • Only a yearly/monthly instance in the Available state can be changed to pay-per-use.
  • After the billing mode is changed, auto-renewal will be disabled.

Changing a Single Yearly/Monthly Instance to Pay-per-Use

  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. On the Instances page, locate the instance whose billing mode you want to change and click Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column.

    Figure 1 Change to Pay-per-Use

  3. On the displayed page, confirm the instance information and click Change to Pay-per-Use to submit the change. The billing mode will change to pay-per-use after the instance expires.
  4. After you submit the change, a message is displayed in the Billing Mode column of the target DB instance, indicating that the billing mode will be changed to pay-per-use after the DB instance expires.
  5. To cancel the change, choose Billing > Renewal to enter the Billing Center. On the Renewals page, locate the target DB instance and click More > Cancel Change to Pay-per-Use.
  6. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes.

Batch Changing Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. On the Instances page, select the instances whose billing mode you want to change and click Change to Pay-per-Use above the instance list.

    Figure 2 Batch changing yearly/monthly to pay-per-use

  3. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes.
  4. On the displayed page, confirm the instance information and click Change to Pay-per-Use. The billing mode will change to pay-per-use after the instance expires.

    After the billing mode is changed, auto-renewal will be disabled.

  5. After you submit the change, check whether a message is displayed in the Billing Mode column, indicating that the billing mode will be changed to pay-per-use after the instance expires.
  6. To cancel the change, choose Billing > Renewal to enter the Billing Center. On the Renewals page, locate the instance and click More > Cancel Change to Pay-per-Use.
  7. In the displayed dialog box, click Yes.
Parent topic: Billing Management