Help Center/ Optimization Advisor/ Best Practices/ Checking the Billing Mode
Updated on 2023-03-17 GMT+08:00

Checking the Billing Mode

Scenarios

You can change the billing mode of an instance from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly for some resources. If you use the service for a long time, you can change the billing mode of an instance from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly for lower costs.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the OA console.
  2. On the Overview page, click Check. When the check progress reaches 100%, the check is complete.

    Figure 1 Clicking Check
    Figure 2 Check progress

  3. Choose Dimension > Cost in the navigation pane. Click Risky, view the cost check result under the billing mode of some resources.

    Figure 3 Figure 3 Cost check result

Optimization Suggestions

You are advised to change the billing mode of pay-per-use for instances that have been billed for more than one month to yearly/monthly to save costs.