Elastic Desktop Service (EDS) provides subscription and pay-as-you-go cloud desktops. If the billing method of your cloud desktop does not meet your business requirements, you can change the billing method when you use the cloud desktop. This topic describes how to change a pay-as-you-go cloud desktop to a subscription one.

Prerequisites

The following conditions must be met when you change a pay-as-you-go cloud desktop to a subscription one.
  • The cloud desktop is in the Running or Stopped state.
  • No unpaid orders exist.

    If you have an unpaid order for a cloud desktop, you must pay for the order or cancel the order before you change the billing method.

Precautions

When you change a subscription cloud desktop to a subscription one, you must take note of the following rules:
  • Cloud desktop resources are not released when you change a pay-as-you-go cloud desktop to a subscription one.
  • After you change a pay-as-you-go cloud desktop to a subscription one, you are charged for the cloud desktop resources on a subscription basis. The resources include computing resources, such as vCPUs, memory, and GPUs, and storage resources such as data disks and system disks.

Procedure

If you want to change a pay-as-you-go cloud desktop to a subscription one, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Log on to the EDS console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, select a region.
  3. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Desktops and Groups > Desktops.
  4. On the Cloud Desktops page, find the pay-as-you-go cloud desktop that you want to change the billing method, click More in the Actions column, and then click Change to Subscription.
  5. In the dialog box that appears, specify the duration for the cloud desktop and confirm the configuration fees and click Confirm Change.
  6. Complete the payment before you can proceed.

Result

After the billing method is changed, go back to the Cloud Desktops page, find the cloud desktop, check whether the value in the Billing Method column is changed to Subscription.