The Elastic Compute Service (ECS) console provides the unified expiration date feature that allows you to renew multiple subscription instances in a region to synchronize their expiration dates to the same day of each month. This facilitates daily management and renewal. This topic describes how to use the feature.
Prerequisites
The subscription instances whose expiration dates you want to synchronize have not expired.
If some of the instances have expired, remove or renew the expired instances before you proceed.
Renewal fees are generated when you synchronize the expiration dates of instances. Check whether your account balance is sufficient.
Considerations
The unified expiration date feature cannot ensure that the expiration dates of multiple subscription instances are unified to the same month. You can synchronize the expiration dates of subscription instances only to a specific day of the month in the
Day <x> 00:00format. You cannot specify a month for the new expiration dates.This feature allows you to renew subscription instances for a unified expiration date. The minimum duration of renewal is one month. If the interval between the specified unified expiration date and the actual expiration date of the instance is less than one month, the actual expiration date is postponed by one month.
Instance
Current expiration date
New expiration date (the 12th day in each month)
A
October 8, 2018
November 12, 2018.
B
October 18, 2018
December 12, 2018. This is because October 18, 2018 and November 12, 2018 are less than one month apart.
Synchronizing expiration dates does not enable auto-renewal. For information about how to enable auto-renewal for an instance, see Auto-renewal.
Specify a unified expiration date for subscription ECS instances
Before you use the unified expiration date feature, specify a unified expiration date for the subscription ECS instances. If you do not want to modify the existing setting, skip this step.
Use the Expenses and Costs console
Log on to the Expenses and Costs console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click .
In the upper-right corner of the page, click Set Unified Expiration Date. In the dialog box that appears, select a unified expiration date from the drop-down list.
NoteThe unified expiration date can be set from 00:00 on the 1st day of each month to 00:00 on the 28th of each month.
Call an API operation
You can call the SetAllExpirationDay operation and set the UnifyExpireDay parameter to specify a unified expiration date for subscription ECS instances.
Unify the expiration date of a subscription instance
Use the ECS console
Go to ECS console - Instance.
In the top navigation bar, select the region and resource group of the resource that you want to manage.
Click the ID of a subscription ECS instance to go to the instance details page, and click All Actions in the upper-right corner. In the pane that appears, search for and click Synchronize Expiration Date. On the Synchronize Expiration Date page, you can view information about the instance and its unified expiration date.
NoteIf you want to change the Unified Expiration Date parameter, click Set Synchronized Expiration Date to go to the Renewal page of the Expenses and Costs console.
Confirm the renewal period and price of the instance, read and select ECS Terms of Service and Product Terms of Service, confirm the total fees, and then click Conform Order. Then, follow the on-screen instructions to complete the payment.
You can perform a batch operation on the instance list page to unify the expiration dates of multiple subscription ECS instances in a single region. To unify the expiration dates of subscription ECS instances in multiple regions, perform the batch operation by region.
Call an API operation
Calls to the API operation may incur fees.
You can call the RenewInstance operation and set the ExpectedRenewDay parameter to the value that you specified in the Specify a unified expiration date for subscription ECS instances section as the expiration date of the renewal period. This way, you can renew a subscription instance to the unified expiration date. To renew multiple subscription instances to a unified expiration date, call the RenewInstance operation multiple times.