From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you want to use IoTDA standard instances for a long time, you can change the billing mode to yearly/monthly to reduce costs. By doing so, a new order is generated and the yearly/monthly resource takes effect immediately after you pay the order.

Assume that you bought a pay-per-use IoTDA SU1 instance on April 18, 2023, 15:29:16, and you changed the billing mode to yearly/monthly on April 19, 2023, 16:30:30 (a change-to-yearly/monthly order generated). After you paid the order, the IoTDA instance immediately entered the yearly/monthly billing mode. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three line items were generated:

Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 00:00:00 on April 18, 2023
Pay-per-use expenditures for 00:00:00 to 16:30:30 on April 19, 2023
Yearly/monthly expenditure for the period from April 19, 2023, 16:30:30

Constraints

Currently, only standard edition instances support changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
The specifications cannot be changed when the billing mode is being changed to yearly/monthly.
You cannot change the billing mode of an instance to yearly/monthly if there is an unpaid order for changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
Pay-per-use resources that are being frozen or deleted cannot be changed to yearly/monthly.

Prerequisites

The billing mode of the IoTDA instance is pay-per-use.

Procedure

Log in to the console.
In the navigation pane, click and choose IoT > IoT Device Access.
Choose IoTDA Instances and confirm the standard edition instance to be changed to yearly/monthly.
Click on the right of the instance and select Change to Yearly/Monthly Billing.

Figure 1 IoTDA instance - Changing to yearly/monthly billing
Select the required duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the expected expiration date and price, and click Pay.

Figure 2 IoTDA instance - Changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly
Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, the billing mode becomes yearly/monthly.