This topic describes the API behavior when your account has an overdue payment or your subscription resources expire.

API behavior

When OperationLocks in the response returned for an instance by the DescribeInstances or DescribeDisks operation contains LockReason: financial, overdue payments are generated.

In the following table, Normal logic indicates that the operation is called and the result is returned.

Table 1. API behavior for instances of accounts that have overdue payments
Operation Instance for which overdue payments are generated
AllocatePublicIpAddress Error
AttachDisk Error
AuthorizeSecurityGroup Normal logic
CreateDisk Error
CreateImage Normal logic
CreateInstance Error
CreateSecurityGroup Normal logic
CreateSnapshot Normal logic
DeleteDisk Normal logic
DeleteImage Normal logic
DeleteInstance Normal logic
DeleteSecurityGroup Normal logic
DeleteSnapshot Normal logic
DescribeAutoSnapshotPolicy Normal logic
DescribeDisks Normal logic
DescribeImages Normal logic
DescribeInstances Normal logic
DescribeInstanceStatus Normal logic
DescribeInstanceTypes Normal logic
DescribeInstanceMonitorData Normal logic
DescribeRegions Normal logic
DescribeSecurityGroupAttribute Normal logic
DescribeSecurityGroups Normal logic
DescribeSnapshotAttribute Normal logic
DescribeSnapshots Normal logic
DescribeZones Normal logic
DetachDisk Normal logic
JoinSecurityGroup Normal logic
LeaveSecurityGroup Normal logic
ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicy Normal logic
ModifyDiskAttribute Normal logic
ModifyInstanceAttribute Normal logic
RebootInstance Error
ReInitDisk Error
ReplaceSystemDisk Error
ResetDisk Error
RevokeSecurityGroup Normal logic
StartInstance Error
StopInstance Error
Table 2. API behavior for disks of accounts that have overdue payments
Operation Disk for which overdue payments are generated
AllocatePublicIpAddress Error
AttachDisk Error
AuthorizeSecurityGroup Normal logic
CreateDisk Error
CreateImage Normal logic
CreateInstance Error
CreateSecurityGroup Normal logic
CreateSnapshot Normal logic
DeleteDisk Normal logic
DeleteImage Normal logic
DeleteInstance Normal logic
DeleteSecurityGroup Normal logic
DeleteSnapshot Normal logic
DescribeAutoSnapshotPolicy Normal logic
DescribeDisks Normal logic
DescribeImages Normal logic
DescribeInstances Normal logic
DescribeInstanceStatus Normal logic
DescribeInstanceMonitorData Normal logic
DescribeRegions Normal logic
DescribeSecurityGroupAttribute Normal logic
DescribeSecurityGroups Normal logic
DescribeSnapshotAttribute Normal logic
DescribeSnapshots Normal logic
DescribeZones Normal logic
DetachDisk Normal logic
JoinSecurityGroup Normal logic
LeaveSecurityGroup Normal logic
ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicy Normal logic
ModifyDiskAttribute Normal logic
ModifyInstanceAttribute Error
ModifyInstanceSpec Error
RebootInstance Error
ReInitDisk Error
ReplaceSystemDisk Error
ResetDisk Error
RevokeSecurityGroup Normal logic
StartInstance Error
StopInstance Error