API behavior for accounts that have overdue payments - Elastic Compute Service

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

API Call Usage

An overdue payment occurs when the OperationLocks response parameter returned by the DescribeInstances or DescribeDisks operation contains LockReason: financial.

In the following tables, Normal indicates that the API operation executes as expected and returns a result.

Table 1. API behavior for instances of accounts that have overdue payments
API	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
API	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