Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Prerequisites

Your DCS instance is in the Running state.

Changing to Pay-per-Use on the Cloud Service Console

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left and choose Middleware > Distributed Cache Service (for Redis).
3. In the navigation pane, choose Cache Manager.
4. Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column of the target DCS instance.
5. Confirm the change details, and click Change to Pay-per-Use.
   Figure 1 Changing the billing mode to pay-per-use upon expiration
   

Changing to Pay-per-Use in Billing Center

1. Log in to the console.
2. Hover over Billing & Costs in the upper part of the console and choose Renewal from the drop-down list.

   The Renewals page is displayed.

3. Customize search criteria. For example, set Service Type to Distributed Cache Service.
   • For resources on the Manual Renewals, Auto Renewals, and Renewals Canceled pages, you can set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use upon expiration.
   • On the Pay-per-Use After Expiration tab, you can view the resources whose billing mode will change to pay-per-use upon expiration.
   Figure 2 Renewals
   

4. Set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use after the yearly/monthly subscription expires.
   • Single resource: Select the DCS instance for which you want to change the billing mode, and choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration in the Operation column.
     Figure 3 Changing the billing mode of a single resource from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use after expiration
     
   • Multiple resources: Select the DCS instances for which you want to change the billing mode, and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration above the resource list.
     Figure 4 Batch changing the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use after expiration
     

5. Confirm the change details, and click Change to Pay-per-Use.
   Figure 5 Changing the billing mode to pay-per-use upon expiration