Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Constraints

Resources such as EIPs that are used by a DB instance may not support the change with this DB instance. For details about their billing mode change rules and handling methods, see Table 1.

Pay-per-use billing will be applied only after the yearly/monthly billing ends.

Changing the Billing Mode of a Single TaurusDB Instance

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
3. Click in the upper left corner of the page, choose Database > TaurusDB.
4. On the Instances page, locate the yearly/monthly DB instance that you want to change to pay-per-use instance and choose More > Change to Pay-per-use in the Operation column.

   Alternatively, click the DB instance name to go to the Basic Information page. In the Billing Information area, click Change under Billing Mode.

5. On the displayed page, change the billing mode of the instance.
6. On the Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration page, confirm the instance billing information and click Change to Pay-per-Use.
7. View the results on the Instances page.

   In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. After the change completes, the instance status will change to Available and the billing mode will change to Pay-per-use.