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Changing Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Updated on 2025-01-02 GMT+08:00

Scenarios

  • Pay-per-use: a postpaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed by usage duration. You can provision or delete such an ECS at any time.
  • Yearly/Monthly: a prepaid billing mode, in which an ECS is billed based on the purchased duration. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and is suitable for predictable usage.

If you need to use an ECS for a long time, you can change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly to reduce costs by referring to the content in this section.

NOTE:
  • For certain associated resources (such as EVS disks and EIPs), their billing modes can be changed together with the ECS to yearly/monthly.
  • For associated resources whose billing modes cannot be changed together with the ECS to yearly/monthly, they will retain their original billing modes. For details, see Billing Mode Change Rules for Associated Resources.
  • ECSs created using ISO images do not support the change from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

Billing Mode Change Rules for Associated Resources

Resources associated with ECSs include disks and EIPs. Table 1 and Table 2 show the billing mode change rules for these associated resources.

Table 1 Billing mode change rules for disks attached to an ECS

Disk Type

Billing Mode

Shared

Changed Together with ECS to Yearly/Monthly

Measure

Local disks

N/A

No

N/A

None

DSS/DESS disks

Yearly/Monthly (the same as the storage pool billing mode)

No

N/A

None

EVS disks

Pay-per-use

No

Yes (not supported for extreme SSD V2 disks)

None

EVS disks

Pay-per-use

Yes

No

On the EVS console, change the billing mode of EVS disks from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Billing for Disks.

EVS disks

Yearly/Monthly

No

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

EVS disks

Yearly/Monthly

Yes

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

Table 2 Billing mode change rules for EIPs bound to an ECS

Resource

Billing Mode

Billed By

Bandwidth Type

Changed Together with ECS to Yearly/Monthly

Measure

EIP

Pay-per-use

Bandwidth

Dedicated

Yes

None

EIP

Pay-per-use

Traffic

Dedicated

No

On the EIP console page, change the billing mode from billing by traffic (pay-per-use) to billing by bandwidth (pay-per-use) first and then to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.

EIP

Pay-per-use

Bandwidth

Shared

No

On the EIP console, change the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

For details, see Changing EIP Billing Mode.

EIP

Yearly/Monthly

Bandwidth

Dedicated or shared

No

The billing mode is already yearly/monthly. No actions are required.

Prerequisites

  • The selected ECS is billed on a pay-per-use basis.
  • The target ECS must be in Running or Stopped state.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
  3. Click . Under Compute, choose Elastic Cloud Server.
  4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
  5. Choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.
    NOTE:

    You can batch change the billing modes of multiple ECSs. To do so, perform the following operations:

    1. Select the target ECSs.
    2. Choose More > Manage Billing > Change to Yearly/Monthly above the ECS list.
  6. Confirm the ECS details, specify the usage duration, and pay for the order.

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