Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use ECS 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 bought a pay-per-use ECS 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:

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 April 18, 2023
A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Prerequisites

The ECS billing mode is pay-per-use.
The ECS status is Running or Stopped.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
Click and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.
In the ECS list, locate the target ECS.

On the top of the ECS list, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly.
On the Change to Yearly/Monthly page, confirm the information and click OK.

Figure 1 Changing to yearly/monthly
Select the usage duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the expected expiration date and price, and click Pay.

Figure 2 Changing the subscription
Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, yearly/monthly billing is applied.