Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use DWS cluster that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to cut costs. If you change the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly, a new order is generated. The yearly/monthly resource takes effect immediately when you make the payment.

Suppose you bought a pay-per-use DWS cluster at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2025 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After you paid the order, the DWS cluster immediately entered the yearly/monthly billing mode. On the Billing Center > Bills page, three bills are generated as follows:

Pay-per-use expenditures for the period from 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2025
Pay-per-use expenditures for the period from 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 on April 18, 2025
Yearly/monthly expenditure for the period from April 18, 2025, 16:30:30

Prerequisites

The billing mode of the cluster is pay-per-use.

Procedure

Log in to the DWS console.
Choose Cluster > Cluster List. All clusters are displayed by default.
In the cluster list, locate the row that contains the target cluster, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.
On the displayed page, set Renew Duration, configure Auto-Renew as needed, and click Pay.
On the displayed page, confirm the information and click Pay to pay for the order.
Return to the cluster list and click . The billing mode of the pay-per-use cluster will change to yearly/monthly.