You can change the billing method of a PolarDB cluster from pay-as-you-go to subscription based on your business requirements.
Prerequisites
- Your cluster is in the Running state.
- Your cluster does not have pending orders to change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription. If pending orders exist, you must pay for or cancel them on the Orders page.
- If a cluster uses specifications that are no longer available such as dedicated specifications of 2 cores and 4 GB memory, you cannot change the billing method to subscription. In this case, you must change the cluster specifications before you change the billing method to subscription. For more information, see .
Precautions
If a subscription cluster uses the storage billing method of subscription, you cannot change it to a pay-as-you-go cluster. However, if a subscription cluster uses the storage billing method of pay-as-you-go, you can change it to a pay-as-you-go cluster.
Impacts
The operations in this topic do not affect the running of clusters.
Procedure
- Log on to the PolarDB console.
- In the upper-left corner of the console, select the region in which the cluster that you want to manage is deployed.
- Find the cluster for which you want to change the billing method and choose Actions column.
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- On the Switch to Subscription page, confirm the cluster information and the Purchase Plan value. Then, read and select PolarDB Terms of Service (Subscription) and click Buy Now.
Note
- The new billing method takes effect after you pay for the order.
- If the order is unpaid or the payment fails, an unfinished order appears on the Orders page. Before you complete the payment, you cannot purchase a new cluster or change the billing method to subscription. In this case, you must pay for or cancel this order.