After you create a pay-as-you-go Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch cluster or Logstash cluster, you can change its billing method to subscription. This allows you to reserve resources in advance and obtain savings over pay-as-you-go. This topic describes how to change the billing method of an Elasticsearch cluster or a Logstash cluster from pay-as-you-go to subscription.
Prerequisites
- The cluster belongs to your Alibaba Cloud account.
- The cluster does not have an unpaid order for a billing method change.
If the cluster has such an unpaid order, you must cancel the unpaid order and place another order to change the billing method.
- The cluster is in a normal state.
- The cluster does not contain data nodes with one or two vCPUs and 2 GiB of memory.
Notice Data nodes with one or two vCPUs and 2 GiB of memory may affect the performance stability of clusters. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch no longer provides data nodes with these specifications since May 2021. Existing data nodes with these specifications can still be used. If your cluster contains data nodes with these specifications, we recommend that you upgrade the data nodes at the earliest opportunity. For more information, see Upgrade the configuration of a cluster.
- The cluster version is not V7.4.
Notice After May 2021, V7.4 is no longer provided. Existing V7.4 clusters are not affected. We recommend that you purchase V7.10 clusters.