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 ECS console and access the ECS list page.
2. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
3. Above the ECS list, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly.
4. Confirm the ECS details, specify the required duration, and pay for the order.