Security Center provides the upgrade and downgrade features. If your business requirements change, you can upgrade or downgrade your Security Center. This topic describes how to upgrade or downgrade Security Center.
Supported upgrade and downgrade operations
Operation category | Operation | Scenario |
Upgrade | Upgrade the edition of Security Center. | If the edition that you use cannot meet your requirements, you can upgrade Security Center to deliver more comprehensive protection. |
Increase the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | The value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter is less than the number of servers within your Alibaba Cloud account. Note In the upper-right corner of the Security Center console, a message prompting you to increase the number of servers that can be protected appears. | |
Purchase value-added features. | After you purchase Security Center, you can purchase value-added features, such as web tamper proofing, anti-ransomware, and container image scan. | |
Upgrade value-added features. | After you purchase value-added features, you can increase the log storage capacity, anti-ransomware capacity, or quota for web tamper proofing. | |
Downgrade | Decrease the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | After you purchase Security Center, you can decrease the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter if the quotas specified by the parameters are not used up and are no longer required. The values of the Protected Servers and vCore parameters after the downgrade must be greater than or equal to the consumed quotas of the Protected Servers and vCore parameters. |
Disable value-added features. | If you no longer want to use the purchased value-added features, such as web tamper proofing and anti-ransomware, you can disable the features. Important To disable web tamper proofing, perform the following operations: Log on to the Security Center console. On the Downgrade page, select Yes for the Web Tamper Protection parameter, set the Quota for Web Tamper Proofing parameter to 0, and then select No for the Web Tamper Protection parameter. | |
Downgrade value-added features. | After you purchase value-added features, you can reduce the log storage capacity, anti-ransomware capacity, quota for web tamper proofing, and value of Container Image Scan. Note When your Security Center is released, logs are automatically deleted. |
You cannot downgrade specifications that are not included in the Downgrade section of the preceding table, such as the edition of Security Center or the cloud honeypot feature. If you want to downgrade the edition of Security Center or reduce the quota for cloud honeypot, you can change the specifications in the next billing cycle. The specifications in the current billing cycle are not affected. For more information about how to renew the subscription to Security Center and change the specifications of Security Center, see Manual renewal.
Upgrade and downgrade fees
Operation category | Fee |
Upgrade | You must pay the price difference for an upgrade. You must pay the price difference for an upgrade. The price difference is calculated based on the following formula: Price difference = (Fees of additional servers that can be protected + Fees of value-added features) × Remaining validity period of Security Center (unit: seconds). |
Downgrade | You can receive a refund for the value-added features that you disable or downgrade. The refund is calculated based on the following formula: Refund = (Fees of reduced servers that can be protected + Fees of disabled or downgraded value-added features) × Remaining validity period of Security Center (unit: seconds). |
For more information about the pricing of each Security Center edition and value-added features, see Billing overview.
Prerequisites
Your account has no pending orders for renewal or specifications changes. Otherwise, you cannot upgrade or downgrade Security Center.
Upgrade
Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. The following regions are supported: China and Outside China.
On the Overview page, choose Change Specifications > Upgrade Now.
On the Upgrade/Downgrade page, configure the parameters based on your business requirements.
Read and select Terms of Service, click Buy Now, confirm the order information, and then complete the payment.
Downgrade
Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to manage. The following regions are supported: China and Outside China.
On the Overview page, choose Change Specifications > Downgrade.
On the Downgrade page, disable and downgrade value-added features, read and select Terms of Service, and then click Buy Now to complete the payment.
NoteIf you no longer want to use a value-added feature, you can select No to disable the feature.
If you want to downgrade a value-added feature, you can release the quota or capacity of the feature and then downgrade the feature.
The refund amount after the downgrade displayed on the Downgrade page shall prevail.