If your business requirements for security change, you can upgrade or downgrade your Security Center, or disable value-added features. For example, you can upgrade Security Center Anti-virus to Security Center Advanced, or disable the anti-ransomware feature that you purchased. This topic describes how to upgrade or downgrade Security Center.
Supported upgrade and downgrade operations
Operation category | Operation | Scenario |
Upgrade | Upgrade the edition of Security Center. The following editions of Security Center are in ascending order: Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate. | If the edition that you use cannot meet your requirements, you can upgrade the edition of Security Center to deliver more comprehensive protection. |
Increase the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | The value of the Protected Servers parameter is less than the number of servers within your Alibaba Cloud account, or the value of the vCore parameter is less than the number of server cores within your Alibaba Cloud account. Note In the upper-right corner of the Security Center console, a message prompting you to increase the number of servers that can be protected appears. | |
Purchase value-added features. | After you purchase Security Center, you can purchase value-added features, such as web tamper proofing, anti-ransomware, container image scan, and application protection. | |
Upgrade value-added features. | After you purchase value-added features, you can increase the log storage capacity, anti-ransomware capacity, or quota for web tamper proofing. | |
Downgrade | Decrease the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | After you purchase Security Center, you can decrease the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter if the quotas specified by the parameters are not used up and are no longer required. The values of the Protected Servers and vCore parameters after the downgrade must be greater than or equal to the consumed quotas of the Protected Servers and vCore parameters. |
Disable value-added features. | If you no longer want to use the purchased value-added features, such as web tamper proofing and anti-ransomware, you can disable the features. Important To disable web tamper proofing, perform the following operations: Log on to the Security Center console. On the Downgrade page, select Yes for the Web Tamper Protection parameter, set the Quota for Web Tamper Proofing parameter to 0, and then select No for the Web Tamper Protection parameter. | |
Downgrade value-added features. | After you purchase value-added features, you can reduce the log storage capacity, anti-ransomware capacity, quotas for web tamper proofing and application protection, and value of the Container Image Scan parameter. Note When your Security Center is released, logs are automatically deleted. |
You cannot downgrade specifications that are not included in the Downgrade section of the preceding table, such as the edition of Security Center or the cloud honeypot feature. If you want to downgrade the edition of Security Center or reduce the quota for cloud honeypot, you can change the specifications in the next billing cycle. The specifications in the current billing cycle are not affected. For more information about how to perform specification changes and renewal, see Manual renewal.
Upgrade and downgrade fees
Operation category | Fee |
Upgrade | You must pay the price difference for an upgrade. The price difference is calculated based on the following formula: Price difference = (Fees of additional servers that can be protected + Fees of value-added features) × Remaining validity period of Security Center (unit: seconds). |
Downgrade | You can receive a refund for the value-added features that you disable or downgrade and the number of reduced servers that can be protected. The refund is calculated based on the following formula: Refund = (Fees of reduced servers that can be protected + Fees of disabled or downgraded value-added features) × Remaining validity period of Security Center (unit: seconds). |
For more information about the pricing of each Security Center edition and value-added features, see Billing overview.
Prerequisites
Your account has no pending orders for renewal or specifications changes. Otherwise, you cannot upgrade or downgrade Security Center.
You can perform the following operations to check pending orders for renewal or specification changes: In the top navigation bar of the Security Center console, choose . On the Orders for Services tab of the Orders page, select Security Center from the Product drop-down list and click Search. In the search result, find the most recent renewal order and click View Details in the Actions column.
Upgrade
Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. You can select China or Outside China.
On the Overview page, choose Change Specifications > Upgrade Now.
On the Upgrade/Downgrade page, configure the parameters based on your business requirements.
To increase the number of server cores, increase the value of the vCore parameter.
To enable web tamper proofing, set the Web Tamper Protection parameter to Yes and configure the Quota for Web Tamper Proofing parameter.
Read and select Terms of Service, click Buy Now, confirm the order information, and then complete the payment.
Downgrade
Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. You can select China or Outside China.
On the Overview page, choose Change Specifications > Downgrade.
On the Downgrade page, downgrade specifications.
To reduce the number of protected servers, decrease the value of the Protected Servers parameter and make sure that the value is no less than the number of your servers.
To disable a value-added feature, select No for the feature or specify 0 for the quota for the feature. Example:
To disable anti-ransomware, specify 0 for the anti-ransomware capacity.
To disable web tamper proofing, set the Quota for Web Tamper Proofing parameter to 0 and the Web Tamper Protection parameter to No.
To reduce the purchased quota or capacity for a value-added feature, release servers that are protected by Security Center or release capacity.
ImportantThe refund amount after the downgrade displayed on the Downgrade page shall prevail.
Read and select Terms of Service, and then click Buy Now to complete the payment.