Changing Pay-per-Use Instances to Yearly/Monthly

Scenarios

If you want to use a pay-per-use GaussDB instance for a long time, you can change its billing mode to yearly/monthly to reduce costs.

• Pay-per-use instances in any of the following statuses cannot be changed to yearly/monthly instances: frozen, creation failed, changing instance specifications, and scaling up.
• Changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly does not affect services.

Changing the Billing Mode of a DB Instance from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.

   

3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB.
4. On the Instances page, locate the pay-per-use instance that you want to change to a yearly/monthly instance and choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.
5. Select how many months you want to renew the subscription for. The minimum duration is one month.
   • If you do not need to modify your settings, click Pay.
   • If you are not sure about the settings, the system will reserve your order. You can choose Billing Center > Orders and pay or cancel the order.

6. Select a payment method and click OK.
7. View the results on the Instances page.

   In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. The instance status will become Available and the billing mode will become yearly/monthly after the change is complete.

Changing the Billing Mode of Multiple DB Instance from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

Only pay-per-use DB instances can be changed to yearly/monthly DB instances.

The status of pay-per-use DB instances must be Available or Abnormal.

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.

   

3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB.
4. On the Instances page, select multiple pay-per-use DB instances that you want to change to yearly/monthly instances and click Change to Yearly/Monthly above the instance list.
5. Select how many months you want to renew the subscription for. The minimum duration is one month.
   • If you do not need to modify your settings, click Pay.
   • If you are not sure about the settings, the system will reserve your order. You can choose Billing Center > Orders and pay or cancel the order.

6. Select a payment method and click OK.
7. View the results on the Instances page.

   In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. The instance status will become Available and the billing mode will become yearly/monthly after the change is complete.