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Updated on 2022-09-27 GMT+08:00
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From Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

You can change the billing mode of a resource from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly. Doing so will create an order. After you pay the order, the yearly/monthly subscription takes effect immediately.

For example:

At 2018/09/21 09:25:34, a customer purchases a pay-per-use ECS. At 2018/10/15 10:30:34, the customer changes the ECS's billing mode to yearly/monthly and a change-to-yearly/monthly order is generated. After the customer pays the order, the ECS immediately enters the yearly/monthly billing mode.

Precautions

  • Only those resources in the Enabled status can be changed to yearly/monthly.
  • The billing mode of solution portfolio products cannot be changed from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • Spot instances do not support change from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly or from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

To enter the page for changing the billing mode of a cloud service product to yearly/monthly, go to the Console, locate the target cloud service product, and perform the change operations.

For details about how to change the billing mode to yearly/monthly, see the user guide of the cloud service product. Below are the relevant links to some products changing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly:

Procedure

The following uses an ECS as an example to describe how to change its billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

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

    On the My Resources page, you can view the region to which your purchased product belongs.

  3. Under Computing, click Elastic Cloud Server.
  4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
  5. Click More in the Operation column and select Change Billing Mode from the drop-down list.

    The billing mode of multiple ECSs can be changed in a batch. To do so, perform the following operations:

    1. Select the target ECSs.
    2. Click More on the top of the ECS list and select Change Billing Mode from the drop-down list.

  6. Select the renewal duration and click Submit.
Parent topic: Changing Subscriptions