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, one for each of the hours the ECS 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 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 Billing Mode.
- On the Change Billing Mode page, confirm the information and click Yes.
Figure 1 Change Billing Mode
- Select the usage duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the expected expiration date and price, and click Pay.
Figure 2 Change Subscription
- Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, yearly/monthly billing is applied.
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