Expiration and overdue payment description for DTS - Data Transmission Service

After a DTS instance expires or the Alibaba Cloud account has overdue payments, data transmission tasks stop running. If you do not complete the payment within 7 days, the system releases and deletes the instance.

Warning

After an instance expires or has overdue payments, the instance is at risk of being stopped. You will receive notifications. Renew or top up your account in a timely manner to avoid service interruptions.

Billing method	Impact of expiration or overdue payment
Subscription	After a subscription instance expires, data transmission tasks stop running and the instance is locked. If you do not successfully renew the instance within 7 days after it is locked, the system releases and deletes the instance. Released instances cannot be recovered. Note If a DTS dedicated cluster expires or has overdue payments, DTS instances in the dedicated cluster are locked. After 7 days, the instances are released and the dedicated cluster resources are also released.
Pay-as-you-go	All pay-as-you-go instances under the account with overdue payments are locked. If you do not successfully top up within 7 days after the instances are locked, the system releases and deletes the instances. Released instances cannot be recovered.

Recommendations

To avoid service interruptions, we recommend that you renew subscription instances before they expire. For more information, see Renew instances.
to ensure that your account has sufficient funds.