This topic describes how to change the billing method of a disk. The billing methods of data disks attached to subscription instances can be changed independently. The billing methods of data disks attached to pay-as-you-go instances and system disks can be changed only together with their instances.
Prerequisites
Background information
- Whether you can change the billing method of your disk depends on your ECS usage.
- You must wait at least five minutes between two consecutive billing method changes.
Change the billing method from subscription to pay-as-you-go
This section describes how to change the billing method of a data disk attached to a subscription instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go. For information about how to change the billing methods of system disks, see Change the billing method of an instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go.
Change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription
This section describes how to change the billing method of a data disk attached to a subscription instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription. For information about how to change the billing methods of pay-as-you-go data disks attached to pay-as-you-go instances and system disks, see Change the billing method of an instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription.
- Log on to the ECS console.
- In the top navigation bar, select a region.
- Select one of the following methods to change the billing methods of your disks:
- If you want to change the billing methods of multiple data disks that are attached
to the same instance, we recommend that you perform the operations on the Instances
page.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- Find the instance and click Upgrade/Downgrade in the Actions column.
- In the Upgrade/Downgrade Wizard dialog box, select Upgrade and then click Continue.
- Select the pay-as-you-go data disks whose billing method you want to change.
- If you want to change the billing method of a specific data disk, we recommend that
you perform the operations on the Disks page.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- Find the data disk, and choose Actions column. in the
- If you want to change the billing methods of multiple data disks that are attached
to the same instance, we recommend that you perform the operations on the Instances
page.
- Read the notes, read and select ECS Service Terms, and then click Create Order.
- Complete the payment and confirm that the billing method of the disk is changed to subscription.