Changes the billing method of cloud computers to subscription or pay-as-you-go.
Operation description
- Before you call this operation, make sure that you fully understand the billing methods of cloud computers. For more information, see Billing overview.
- Before you call this operation, make sure that the cloud computers whose billing method you want to change are in the Running or Stopped state and you have no overdue payments in your Alibaba Cloud account.
- After the order payment is completed, the system starts to change the billing method of the cloud computers. During the change, you cannot perform operations, such as starting or stopping the cloud computers, and changing configurations of the cloud computers.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resourcesis used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ecd:ModifyDesktopChargeType | update | *All Resources * |
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RegionId | string | Yes | The region ID. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list. | cn-hangzhou |
| ChargeType | string | No | The new billing method that you want to apply. Valid values:
| PrePaid |
| Period | integer | No | The subscription duration of the cloud computers if you set the ChargeType parameter to PrePaid. The unit is specified by the
| 1 |
| PeriodUnit | string | No | The unit of the subscription duration if you specify subscription as the new billing method for the cloud desktop. | Month |
| AutoPay | boolean | No | Specifies whether to enable automatic payment if you specify subscription as the new billing method for the cloud desktop. | false |
| DesktopId | array | Yes | The IDs of the cloud computers. You can specify 1 to 20 IDs. | |
| string | Yes | The ID of a cloud computer. | ["ecd-gx2x1dhsmucyy****"] | |
| PromotionId | string | No | The ID of the promotional activity. | 500038360030606 |
| UseDuration | integer | No | Note
This parameter is in invitational preview and not publicly available.
| internal only |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSONformat
{
"OrderId": 123456789,
"RequestId": "1CBAFFAB-B697-4049-A9B1-67E1FC5F****",
"DesktopId": [
[
"ecd-gx2x1dhsmucyy****"
]
]
}Error codes
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.
Change history
| Change time | Summary of changes | Operation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-19 | The request parameters of the API has changed | View Change Details |
| 2021-09-27 | Add Operation | View Change Details |
| 2021-09-27 | The request parameters of the API has changed | View Change Details |