You can upgrade a resource plan based on your requirements.

Background information

  • You can upgrade the following types of resource plans: Standard locally redundant storage (LRS), Infrequent Access (IA) LRS, Archive LRS, Standard zone-redundant storage (ZRS), and IA ZRS. However, you cannot downgrade the resource plans of the preceding types.
  • To upgrade downstream data transfer plans, back-to-origin traffic plans, and transfer acceleration plans, you can purchase multiple plans of the same type.

Upgrade OSS resource plans for users who activated OSS

  1. Log on to the OSS console.
  2. Click the Resource Plans tab.
  3. On the Resource Plans page, find the resource plan that you want to upgrade and click Upgrade in the Actions column.
    Note To allow your RAM user to upgrade your resource plan, you must attach the AliyunBSSOrderAccess policy to the RAM user to view, pay for, and cancel orders in the Billing Management console. For more information about how to grant system permissions to a RAM user, see Grant permissions to a RAM user.
  4. Select the resource plan specification to upgrade. Click Pay. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the payment.

Upgrade OSS resource plans for users who do not activate OSS but use ECS snapshots

If you have not activated OSS but use the ECS snapshot storage service, perform the following steps to upgrade the OSS resource plan:

  1. Activate OSS.
    For more information, see Activate OSS.
  2. Upgrade the OSS resource plan.
    After the upgrade, you can query the used capacity of the snapshot storage. For more information, see View the snapshot size.