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Updated on 2026-04-01 GMT+08:00
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Overview

You can change the billing mode if it no longer meets your needs. Table 1 lists the changeable DRS billed items.

Table 1 Changeable DRS billed items

Billed Item

Change Description

Reference

Configuration fee (mandatory)

DRS tasks can be changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, but cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

  • Migration tasks: Only the pay-per-use billing is supported.
  • Synchronization tasks: Only single-AZ tasks that are not frozen and in the incremental state can be changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • DR tasks: Only tasks that are not frozen and in the DR state can be changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly. For dual-active DR, the billing mode can be changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly only when both the forward and backward subtasks are in DR state.

Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

EIP fee (optional)
  • A yearly/monthly EIP can be changed to a pay-per-use EIP billed by bandwidth after the yearly/monthly subscription ends.
  • A pay-per-use EIP billed by bandwidth can be changed to a yearly/monthly EIP.
  • Pay-per-use EIPs billed by bandwidth can be changed to pay-per-use EIPs billed by traffic, and pay-per-use EIPs billed by traffic can be changed to pay-per-use EIPs billed by bandwidth.

For details, see Figure 2.

For details the EIP fee, see EIP Billing.
Figure 1 Billing mode change of the configuration fee
Figure 2 EIP billing mode change

Parent topic: Billing Mode Changes