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Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use DDM instance that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to reduce costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Assume that you purchased a pay-per-use DDM instance at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After you paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing Center > Billing page, three line items were generated.

  • 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 on April 18, 2023
  • A single, yearly/monthly expenditure generated on April 18, 2023, 16:30:30

Constraints

Resources such as EIPs that are used by a DDM instance may not support the change with this instance. For details about their billing mode change rules and handling methods, see Table 1.

Table 1 EIP billing mode change rules

Change

Change Description

From pay-per-use (billed by bandwidth) to yearly/monthly

Directly change it on the console.

For details, see From Pay-per-Use (Billed by Bandwidth) to Yearly/Monthly.

From pay-per-use EIP (billed by traffic) to yearly/monthly
Perform two steps to change it on the console:
  1. Change the EIP from billed by traffic to billed by bandwidth
  2. Change the EIP to yearly/monthly billing

From billing by traffic (pay-per-use) to billing by bandwidth (pay-per-use)

Directly change it on the console.

For details, see Pay-per-Use EIPs: From Billing By Traffic to By Bandwidth

From billing by bandwidth (pay-per-use) to billing by traffic (pay-per-use)

Directly change it on the console.

For details, see Pay-per-Use EIPs: From Billing By Traffic to By Bandwidth

After the change is successful, the new billing mode is applied immediately.

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

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > Distributed Database Middleware.
  4. In the instance list, locate a pay-per-use instance whose billing mode you want to change and choose More > Change to Yearly/Monthly in the Operation column.

    Alternatively, click the instance name to go to the Basic Information page. In the Instance Information area, click Change to Yearly/Monthly on the right of Billing Mode.

  5. Select a renewal duration and determine whether to enable Auto-renew. Click Pay Now.

    Figure 1 Changing to yearly/monthly

  6. Select a payment method and click Confirm.
  7. View the results on the Instances page.

    In the upper right corner of the instance list, click to refresh the list. The instance status will become Available after the change is successful. The billing mode changes to Yearly/Monthly.

Parent topic: Billing Mode Changes