If your Lindorm instance expires or your Alibaba Cloud account has overdue payments, the instance becomes unavailable. To use the instance, you must renew the instance or enable auto-renewal.
Expiration and overdue payment
Instance | Instance status description | Solution |
Subscription instances | After an instance expires, the instance is immediately disabled and data is retained for 15 days. | Manually renew the instance. For more information, see Manually renew a subscription instance. Warning To prevent data loss, we recommend that you enable auto-renewal for the instance. For more information, see Enable auto-renewal. |
If you do not renew an instance within 15 days after the instance is disabled, the computing and storage resources of the instance are released, and data stored on the instance is permanently deleted. | Data on the released instance is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. | |
Pay-as-you-go instances | If your Alibaba Cloud account has an overdue payment, all pay-as-you-go instances within your account are immediately disabled. | After you top up your Alibaba Cloud account, your instance is resumed. Note If you want to use a pay-as-you-go instance for a long period of time, you can change the billing method of the instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription and select a subscription duration based on your business requirements. This can help you reduce costs. For more information, see Change the billing method of an instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription. |
If you do not renew an instance within 15 days after the instance is disabled, the computing and storage resources of the instance are released, and data stored on the instance is permanently deleted. | Data on the released instance is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered. |