Overview

When to Renew Subscriptions

If a yearly/monthly ECS is about to expire but you want to continue using it, you need to renew the ECS subscription within a specified period, or resources, such as vCPUs, memory, and EVS disks, will be automatically released, and data will be lost and cannot be restored.

Only yearly/monthly ECS subscriptions can be renewed. If you use pay-per-use and spot ECSs, just ensure that your account has sufficient balance to pay your amount due. For details, see Topping Up an Account.

If you renew the ECS before it expires, resources will be retained and you can continue using the ECS. For details about ECS statuses after they have expired and the associated impacts, see Impact of Expiration.

How to Renew Subscriptions

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

You can select a method to renew a yearly/monthly ECS based on the phase the ECS is currently in.

Figure 1 Selecting a renewal method based on ECS's current phase

• An ECS is in the Running state after it is provisioned.
• If an expired ECS is not renewed, it enters a grace period. If it is not renewed by the time the grace period expires, the ECS will enter a retention period.
  • Grace period: The ECS status remains unchanged, but Expired. xx days until resource is frozen is displayed in the Billing Mode column.

    During this period, you can still access and perform operations on the ECS, such as starting, stopping, and restarting the ECS, resetting the password, and creating images. For details, see Impact of Expiration.

  • Retention period: The ECS status changes to Stopped (Frozen). You can buy same ECSs, change the ECS name, renew the ECS, and create images (system disk, full-ECS, and data disk images), but you cannot access or use the ECS.
• If the resource has not been renewed by the time the retention period ends, the resource will be automatically deleted.

For details about the grace period and retention period, see What Is a Grace Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It? and What Is a Retention Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?

You can enable auto-renewal anytime before an ECS expires. By default, the system will make the first attempt to charge your account for the renewal at 03:00, seven days before the expiration 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.