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
Constraints
| Disk Type | Billing Mode | Shared Disk | Change to Yearly/Monthly Billing with ECS | Handling Measure | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local disk | N/A | No | N/A | None | 
| DSS or DESS disk | Yearly/Monthly (storage pool's billing mode) | No | N/A | None | 
| EVS disk | Pay-per-use | No | Supported (excluding Extreme SSD V2 disks) | None | 
| EVS disk | Pay-per-use | Yes | Not supported | Change the disk to yearly/monthly billing on the EVS console. For details, see Billing for Disks. | 
| EVS disk | Yearly/Monthly | No | Not supported | None. The disk is already a yearly/monthly disk. | 
| EVS disk | Yearly/Monthly | Yes | Not supported | None. The disk is already a yearly/monthly disk. | 
| Resource | Billing Mode | Billing By | Bandwidth Type | Change to Yearly/Monthly Billing with ECS | Handling Measure | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EIP | Pay-per-use | Bandwidth | Dedicated | Supported | None | 
| EIP | Pay-per-use | Traffic | Dedicated | Not supported | On the EIP console, change the EIP from being billed by traffic to being billed by bandwidth and then change it to the yearly/monthly billing. For details, see Changing the EIP Billing Mode. | 
| EIP | Pay-per-use | Bandwidth | Shared | Not supported | Change the EIP to yearly/monthly billing on the EIP console. For details, see Changing the EIP Billing Mode. | 
| EIP | Yearly/Monthly | Bandwidth | Dedicated or shared | Not supported | None. The EIP is already a yearly/monthly EIP. | 
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. in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
- Click  and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server. and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.
- In the ECS list, locate the target ECS.
- In the Operation column, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly.
    
      The billing mode of multiple ECSs can be changed in batches. The procedure is as follows: - Select the target ECSs.
- Above the ECS list, choose More > Manage Billing > Change to Yearly/Monthly.
 
- In the displayed Change to Yearly/Monthly dialog box, 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.
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