Changing a Proxy from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Scenarios

If you want to use a pay-per-use proxy created for a yearly/monthly DB instance for a long time, you can change the proxy from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs.

Constraints

Enabling database proxy
- Only pay-per-use proxies can be created for pay-per-use DB instances.
- Either pay-per-use or yearly/monthly proxies can be created for yearly/monthly DB instances.
  - To create yearly/monthly proxies, contact customer service to apply for required permissions.
  - The expiration time of yearly/monthly proxies is the same as that of the yearly/monthly DB instance by default.
  - If auto-renewal is enabled for the yearly/monthly DB instance, it is also enabled for the proxies by default.
Changing the billing mode
- To change a proxy from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, you need to contact customer service to apply for required permissions.
- Pay-per-use proxies in HA mode cannot be changed to yearly/monthly.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Relational Database Service.
On the Instances page, click the name of the target yearly/monthly instance.
In the navigation pane on the left, click Database Proxy.
In the proxy information area, click Change to Yearly/Monthly next to the Billing Mode field.
On the displayed page, confirm the information and click Submit.