Overview

Description

Yearly/Monthly Kafka instances cannot run after their subscription expires. To continue using them, renew your subscription within a specified period. Otherwise, your instance resources will be automatically released, and your data will be lost and cannot be restored.

Only yearly/monthly Kafka instances can be renewed. Pay-per-use Kafka instances can run as long as you have sufficient account balance.

If your subscription is renewed before it expires, all resources are retained and your Kafka instance is not affected. For details about the statuses of a Kafka instance after it expires, see Impact of Expiration.

Renewal Functions

Table 1 describes the functions related to the renewal of yearly/monthly Kafka instances.

You can renew your subscription across the life cycle of your yearly/monthly Kafka instance, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Life cycle of a Kafka instance

• A Kafka instance is in the Running state from the time when it is purchased to the time when it expires.
• After the instance expires, its status changes to Expired.
• If the Kafka instance is not renewed upon expiration, the instance enters the grace period. If the instance is not renewed after the grace period expires, the status changes to Frozen.
• If you do not renew your subscription after the grace period expires, your resource enters a retention period. If you do not renew the subscription within the retention period, your resource is automatically deleted.

For details about the grace period and the retention period, see What Is a Grace Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It? and What Is a Retention Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?

Auto-renewal can be enabled any time before a Kafka instance expires. The system attempts to automatically renew the instance at 03:00 seven days (default, and can be customized) before the instance expires. If the fee deduction fails, there is one attempt at 03:00 every day until the instance expires or the renewal is successful.