Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you want to use a pay-per-use DCS instance for a long time, you can change the billing mode to yearly/monthly to reduce 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.

Assume that you bought a pay-per-use DCS instance on Apr 18, 2023, 15:29:16, and you changed the instance's billing mode to yearly/monthly on Apr 18, 2023, 16:30:30 (a change-to-yearly/monthly order generated). After you paid the order, the DCS instance immediately entered the yearly/monthly billing mode. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three bills are generated as follows:

Pay-per-use: Apr 18, 2023, 15:00:00 to Apr 18, 2023, 16:00:00. Fees are generated for the period from 15:29:16 to 16:00:00.
Pay-per-use: Apr 18, 2023, 16:00:00 to Apr 18, 2023, 17:00:00. Fees are generated for the period from 16:00:00 to 16:30:30.
Yearly/Monthly: Apr 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Currently, the yearly/monthly billing mode is supported only in the CN-Hong Kong region. In other regions, only the pay-per-use mode is supported, and it cannot be changed.

Prerequisites

The billing mode of the DCS instance is pay-per-use.
The DCS instance is in the Running state.

Procedure

Log in to the console.
Click in the upper left and choose Middleware > Distributed Cache Service (for Redis).
In the navigation pane, choose Cache Manager.
Choose More > Change Billing in the Operation column of the target DCS instance.
The billing mode of multiple pay-per-use DCS instances can be changed in batches. The procedure is as follows:
1. Select multiple DCS instances whose billing mode is to be changed to yearly/monthly.
2. Click Change Billing above the instance list.
In the displayed Change Billing dialog box, click Yes.

Figure 1 Changing billing
Select the required duration, determine whether to enable auto-renewal, confirm the expected expiration date and price, and click Pay.

Figure 2 Changing from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly
Select a payment method and make your payment. Once the order is paid, the billing mode becomes yearly/monthly.