Overview

Description

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

Only yearly/monthly DCS instances can be renewed. Pay-per-use DCS 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 DCS instance is not affected. For details about the statuses of a DCS instance after it expires, see Impact of Expiration.

Currently, the yearly/monthly billing mode is supported only in the CN-Hong Kong region.

Renewal Functions

Table 1 describes the functions related to the renewal of DCS instances.

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

Figure 1 Life cycle of a DCS instance

• A DCS 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 instance is not renewed upon expiration, it enters the grace period. If it is not renewed after the grace period ends, the status changes to Frozen.
• If you do not renew your subscription after the grace period ends, your instance enters a retention period. If you do not renew the subscription within the retention period, your instance is automatically deleted.

Both the grace and retention periods are 15 days.

Auto-renewal can be enabled anytime before a DCS instance expires. The system attempts to automatically renew the instance at 03:00 seven days before the instance expires. If the fee deduction fails, there will be one attempt at 03:00 every day until the instance expires or the renewal is successful. By default, fees are deducted seven days before your subscription expires. You can change this deduction date as required.