Overview

When to Renew Subscriptions

If a yearly/monthly CFW instance is about to expire but you want to continue using it, you need to renew the CFW subscription within a specified period, or resources, such as protection rules and logs, will be automatically released, and data will be lost and cannot be restored.

Only yearly/monthly CFW subscriptions can be renewed. If you use pay-per-use CFWs, just ensure that your account has a valid payment method configured or a top-up account with a sufficient balance.

If you renew the CFW instance before it expires, resources will be retained and you can continue using the instance. For details about the CFW instance status after it expires and the associated impacts, see Impact of Expiration.

How to Renew Subscriptions

You can renew a yearly/monthly instance manually or automatically.

You can select a method to renew your yearly/monthly CFW instance based on the phase the CFW is currently in. For details, see Figure 1.

Figure 1 CFW lifecycle

• A CFW instance is in the Running state after it is provisioned
• If your yearly/monthly CFW instance expires and is not renewed, after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period. During the grace period, you can access CFW. If you do not renew the CFW instance within the grace period, the resource enters the retention period and the resource status changes to Frozen.
• If you do not renew the subscription before the retention period expires, your resources will be automatically deleted and data cannot be restored.
  

  Huawei Cloud offers a 15-day grace period and a 15-day retention period.

You can enable auto-renewal any time before your CFW instance expires. By default, the system will make the first attempt to charge your account for the renewal at 03:00, seven days before the expiry date. If this attempt fails, it will make another attempt at 03:00 every day until the subscription is renewed or expires. You can change the auto-payment date for renewal as required.