Activate ECS Snapshot

Activate the ECS Snapshot service before you can create snapshots for disks.

Billing

Activating the ECS Snapshot service is free. After you create snapshots, you are charged for standard snapshot storage based on the snapshot size and storage duration in each region. Hourly bills are generated per region. Monitor your snapshot size and fees. See Snapshot billing.

Procedure

Visit ECS Console - Snapshots.
In the Activate Snapshot Service dialog box, read the notes, select I have read and agreed to Alibaba Cloud Product and Service Agreement (Snapshot), and click Activate.

References

After you activate the Snapshot service, create snapshots for disks as needed.
- Manually create a single snapshot for a cloud disk.
- Create a snapshot consistency group to batch create snapshots for multiple cloud disks with point-in-time and crash consistency.
- Periodically create snapshots for a cloud disk:
  1. Create an automatic snapshot policy.
  2. Set an automatic snapshot policy for a disk.
The Snapshot service cannot be disabled after activation. To stop snapshot billing, see Snapshot billing.