Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Scenarios

• 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 purchased duration. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and is suitable for predictable usage.

If you need to use an ECS for a long time, you can change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs by referring to the content in this section.

Prerequisites

• The selected ECS is billed on a pay-per-use basis.
• The target ECS must be in Running or Stopped state.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
3. Click . Under Compute, choose Elastic Cloud Server.
4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
5. Above the ECS list, choose More > Change Billing Mode.
6. Confirm the ECS details, specify the usage duration, and pay for the order.