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ApsaraDB RDS:Overdue payments

Last Updated:Feb 20, 2024

If your Alibaba Cloud account has overdue payments, all the pay-as-you-go ApsaraDB RDS instances that belong to the account become overdue. You can unlock or rebuild overdue RDS instances within a specific period of time. Subscription RDS instances are not affected by overdue payments.

Warning

Alibaba Cloud sends notifications to you before your account becomes overdue. To avoid business interruptions, we recommend that you add funds to your account at your earliest opportunity.

Overdue instance states

Instance state

Operation

If your Alibaba Cloud account has overdue payments, all pay-as-you-go RDS instances that belong to the account become overdue.

  • Day 1 to 15: The instances run as normal.

  • Day 16 to 30: The instances are locked.

  • Day 31: The instance and its data are released and can no longer be restored.

  • If you have an overdue payment, you cannot release your RDS instance before you add sufficient funds to your Alibaba Cloud account.

Before data is deleted, add funds to your Alibaba Cloud account to settle the outstanding bills.

Important

After the data is released, your RDS instance cannot be restored.

Note

If your RDS instance is released, the backup files of the instance are retained in the following scenarios: