From a resource management standpoint, FPGA-accelerated instances are considered as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances and are managed in the same way you manage other ECS instances. Only pay-as-you-go FPGA-accelerated instances (including preemptible instances) and expired subscription FPGA-accelerated instances can be released. This topic describes how to manually and automatically release pay-as-you-go instances.
Prerequisites
Background information
- Subscription instance that have not expired cannot be released. Before a subscription instance that has not expired can be released, you must convert it into a pay-as-you-go instance. For more information, see Change the billing method of an instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go.
- You can manually release expired subscription instances. If you do not renew an expired instance within a specific period of time, the instance is automatically released.
- If economical mode is disabled for a pay-as-you-go instance, you continue to be charged for the instance until it is released.
- You can enable instance release protection for a pay-as-you-go instance to prevent irreversible data loss caused by accidental release operations. For more information, see Enable or disable release protection for ECS instances.
- If the Release Disk with Instance feature is disabled for a disk attached to an instance, the disk is automatically converted into a pay-as-you-go data disk and retained when the instance is released. For more information, see Release a disk.
Manually release instances
You can manually release pay-as-you-go instances in the ECS console.
- Log on to the ECS console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- In the top navigation bar, select a region.
- Release one or more pay-as-you-go instances at a time.
- If you want to release a single pay-as-you-go instance at a time, find the instance
that you want to release and choose Actions column.
- If you want to release one or more pay-as-you-go instances at a time, click the Filter
icon at the top of the Billing Method column and select Pay-As-You-Go from the drop-down list. In the displayed list of
pay-as-you-go instances, select the instances that you want to release and then click
Release below the instance list.
- If you want to release a single pay-as-you-go instance at a time, find the instance
that you want to release and choose Actions column.
- In the Release dialog box, select Release Now.
- Click Next. Then, click OK.
Enable automatic release
You can enable automatic release for pay-as-you-go instances and set a time to automatically release the instances. If you set the automatic release time more than once, the most recent setting prevails.
Disable automatic release
- Log on to the ECS console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
- In the top navigation bar, select a region.
- Disable automatic release for one or more pay-as-you-go instances at a time.
- If you want to disable automatic release for a single pay-as-you-go instance at a time, find the instance for which you want to disable the automatic release feature and choose Actions column. in the
- If you want to disable automatic release for one or more pay-as-you-go instances at a time, click the Filter icon at the top of the Billing Method column and select Pay-As-You-Go from the drop-down list. In the displayed list of pay-as-you-go instances, select the instances for which you want to disable automatic release and then click Release below the instance list.
- In the Release dialog box, select Scheduled Release.
- Turn off Automatic Release.
- Click Next. Then, click OK.