Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use DRS synchronization task that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to reduce costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Suppose a user started a pay-per-use DRS synchronization task at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three line items were generated, one for each of the hours the task was used on a pay-per-use basis, and one for the yearly/monthly subscription:

Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2023
Pay-per-use expenditures for 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 on April 18, 2023
A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated on April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Constraints

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.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
Click in the upper left corner and choose Databases > Data Replication Service. The DRS information page is displayed.
On the task management page, locate the target task and choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.
Select a required duration. The minimum duration is one month. Confirm the order and click Pay.
Select a payment method and click Pay.
After the billing mode is changed to yearly/monthly, view and manage the task on the task management page.
In the upper right corner of the task list, click to refresh the list. After the billing mode is changed to yearly/monthly, the Billing Mode status changes to Yearly/Monthly.