Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Scenarios

• Pay-per-use: a postpaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed by usage duration. You can provision or delete such an ECS at any time.
• Yearly/Monthly: a prepaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed based on the purchased duration. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and is suitable for predictable usage.

If you need to use an ECS for a long time, you can change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs by referring to the content in this section.

Prerequisites

• The selected ECS is billed on a pay-per-use basis.
• The target ECS must be in Running or Stopped state.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
3. Click . Under Compute, choose Elastic Cloud Server.
4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
5. Above the ECS list, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly.
6. Confirm the ECS details, specify the required duration, and pay for the order.