Auto-renewing a Connection

Auto-renewal can prevent connections from being automatically released if you forget to manually renew them. The auto-renewal rules are as follows:

The first auto-renewal date is based on when a connection expires and the billing cycle.
The auto-renewal period depends on the subscription term. For example, if the subscription term is 3 months, your subscription is automatically renewed for three months every time before expiration.
You can enable auto-renewal at any time before a connection 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 expired.
After auto-renewal is enabled, you can still renew the connection manually if you want to. After a manual renewal is complete, auto-renewal is still valid, and the renewal fee will be deducted from your account seven days before the new expiry date.
By default, the renewal fee is deducted from your account seven days before the new expiry date. You can change this auto-renewal payment date as required.

For more information about auto-renewal rules, see Auto-Renewal Rules.

The connection has not expired.

You can enable auto-renewal on the connection purchase page, as shown in Figure 1. For more information, see Creating a Connection.

Figure 1 Enabling auto-renewal

Log in to the management console.
Hover over Billing & Costs in the upper part of the console and choose Renewal from the drop-down list.
The Renewals page is displayed.
Set the search criteria.
- You can view the resources for which auto-renewal has been enabled on the Auto Renewals page.
- You can enable auto-renewal for resources on the Manual Renewals and Renewals Canceled tabs.

Enable auto-renewal for yearly/monthly resources.
- Enabling auto-renewal for a single resource: Select the ECS for which you want to enable auto-renewal and choose More > Enable Auto-Renew in the Operation column.
- Enabling auto-renewal for multiple resources at a time: Select the ECSs for which you want to enable auto-renewal and click Enable Auto-Renew above the list.