Compared with manual renewal, auto-renewal helps minimize management costs and prevent service interruptions of ECS instances if you fail to renew the instances. This topic describes how to enable the auto-renewal feature for a subscription instance.
Prerequisites
Background information
- The first auto-renewal day and billing cycle are calculated based on the expiration day of the instance.
- The auto-renewal duration is subject to the duration that you selected. For example, if you select three months, ECS renews the instance for three months each time before it expires until you disable auto-renewal.
- If you have manually renewed an instance before the auto-renewal payment is deducted, the auto-renewal operation will not be performed during the current billing cycle.
- If the auto-renewal deduction fails, the systemsends messages to your email address that is bound to your account. Check you email and handle the messages in a timely manner to ensure your business availability.
For more information about the payment deduction process of auto-renewal, see Renewal overview.
Enable auto-renewal on the instance creation page
The following figure shows how to enable auto-renewal on the instance creation page. For information about how to create an ECS instance, see Create an instance by using the wizard.

Enable auto-renewal on the Instances page
On the Instances page, you can enable auto-renewal for one or more ECS instances or change the renewal duration.
- Log on to the ECS console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- In the top navigation bar, select a region.
- Select one of the following methods to enable auto-renewal:
- Enable auto-renewal for one ECS instance: Find the instance and choose Actions column. in the
- Enable auto-renewal for one or more ECS instances: Select the instances and choose in the lower part of the Instances page.
- In the Configure Auto-renewal dialog box, turn on Auto-renewal, set Renewal Duration, and then click OK.
Enable auto-renewal on the Renew page
On the Renew page, you can enable auto-renewal for one or more ECS instances or change the renewal duration.