Changing the Billing Mode from Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Scenarios

You can change the billing mode of a DB instance from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

The pay-per-use billing mode is not applied until a yearly/monthly subscription expires, and only if auto-renew is not in effect.

Changing the Billing Mode from Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

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

   Alternatively, click the DB instance name to go to the Overview page. In the Billing area, click Change to Pay-per-use under Billing Mode.

5. On the displayed page, change the billing mode of the DB instance.
6. Wait until the billing mode is successfully changed and view the instance on the Instances page.

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