From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

After creating a yearly/monthly cluster, you can change it to pay-per-use for more flexibility, and you can recoup part of what you paid for the subscription.

Pay-per-use billing will be applied only after the yearly/monthly billing duration ends.

Prerequisites

The billing mode can only be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use for clusters whose order status is Available.

Procedure

Log in to the CSS management console.
On the Clusters page, locate the target yearly/monthly cluster.
Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Upon Expiration in the Operation column.
On the Change to Pay-per-Use upon Expiration dialog box, confirm the information and click OK.
- If the cluster billing mode is changed to pay-per-use during the yearly/monthly subscription period, the change will take effect when the yearly/monthly subscription expires.
- The billing mode cannot be changed for a cluster that has expired or been frozen.
On the Clusters page and check the current billing mode in the Billing Mode column.