Impacts of expiration or overdue payments
Instance status | Impact | Solution |
First to the fifteenth day after an instance expires or is overdue | The instance is frozen and cannot provide services. | Renew the instance. The instance immediately recovers to a normal state. |
Sixteenth day after an instance expires or is overdue | An instance is automatically released on the eighth day after it expires. The data in the instance is cleared. | Renew your instance in time. Otherwise, you cannot recover the instance data. |
Note: Make sure that your Alibaba Cloud account has sufficient balance during the service period of your instance. This prevents your instance and other related cloud resources such as MaxCompute and Platform for AI (PAI) from being affected.
Suggestions
To prevent business from being affected, we recommend that you renew your instance before it expires.
Make sure that the balance in your Alibaba Cloud account is sufficient.