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Changing the Billing Mode from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use instance that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to reduce costs. By doing so, a new order is generated and the yearly/monthly resource takes effect immediately after you pay the order.

Assume that you bought a pay-per-use CloudTable 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 the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. Hover over Billing in the upper part of the console and choose Bills from the drop-down list. On the Bills page, three bills are generated as follows:

  • Pay-per-use expenditures for 15:29:16 to 16:00:00 on April 18, 2023
  • Pay-per-use expenditures for 16:00:00 to 16:30:30 April 18, 2023
  • A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

    After creating a pay-per-use cluster, you need to wait for 5 minutes before changing the billing mode to yearly/monthly.

Prerequisites

  • The billing mode of the target CloudTable cluster is pay-per-use.
  • The target CloudTable cluster is in the Running state.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the CloudTable console.
  2. Click Cluster Management.
  3. In the Operation column of a cluster, choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly.

    You can also click Change to Yearly/Monthly on the cluster details page to change the billing mode.

  4. On the displayed page, select the required duration and click Pay.
  5. On the payment page, select a payment method and click Pay.
  6. Return to the cluster list, click the target cluster to check the billing mode on its details page.
Parent topic: Billing Mode Change