If your business requirements for security change, you can upgrade or downgrade Security Center, or disable value-added features. For example, you can upgrade Security Center Anti-virus to Security Center Advanced, or disable the anti-ransomware feature that you purchased. This topic describes how to upgrade or downgrade Security Center.
Supported upgrade and downgrade operations
You cannot downgrade specifications that are not included in the Downgrade section of the following 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 perform specification changes and renewal, see Manual renewal.
If you want to increase the quota for a value-added feature or purchase a value-added feature, and disable another value-added feature, you must separately perform the upgrade and downgrade operations to complete the required specification changes.
Operation category | Operation | Scenario |
Upgrade | Upgrade the edition of Security Center. The following editions of Security Center are in ascending order: Anti-virus, Advanced, Enterprise, and Ultimate. | If the edition that you use cannot meet your requirements, you can upgrade the edition of Security Center to deliver more comprehensive protection. |
Increase the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | If the purchased quota for protected servers or server cores cannot meet your business requirements, you can increase the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. Note After you purchase Security Center in full protection mode, you must purchase additional quotas by upgrading the specifications if the number of your servers exceeds the value specified by the Protected Servers parameter or the number of your server cores exceeds the value specified by the vCore parameter. You can view a message that prompts you to purchase additional quotas in the upper-right corner of the Overview page in the Security Center console. | |
Purchase value-added features. | After you purchase Security Center that uses the subscription billing method, you can purchase value-added features, such as web tamper proofing, anti-ransomware, container image scan, and application protection. | |
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 | Reduce the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. | After you purchase Security Center, if the quota purchased for protected servers or server cores is not exhausted, you can reduce the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter to release the remaining quota. Note After you purchase Security Center in full protection mode, if the quota purchased for protected servers or server cores is not exhausted and is no longer required, you can reduce the value of the Protected Servers or vCore parameter. After the downgrade, the value of the Protected Servers parameter must be greater than or equal to the number of servers within your Alibaba Cloud account, and the value of the vCore parameter must be greater than or equal to the cores of the servers within your Alibaba Cloud account. |
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, quotas for web tamper proofing and application protection, and value of the Container Image Scan parameter. Note When your Security Center is released, logs are automatically deleted. |
Upgrade and downgrade fees
Operation category | Fee |
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 and the number of reduced servers that can be protected. For more information about how to calculate the refund, see Rules for unsubscribing from resources. |
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.
You can perform the following operations to check whether pending orders for renewal or specification changes take effect: In the top navigation bar of the Security Center console, choose . On the Orders for Services tab of the Orders page, select Security Center from the Product drop-down list and click Search. In the search result, find the most recent renewal order, click View Details in the Actions column, and then check whether the order for renewal and specification change takes effect.
Upgrade
Log on to the Security Center console.
On the Overview page, choose Change Specifications > Upgrade Now.
On the Order Upgrade tab, configure the parameters based on your business requirements.
To increase the number of protected servers, increase the value of the Protected Servers parameter. To increase the number of server cores, increase the value of the Cores parameter.
To enable a value-added feature, set the Purchase or Not parameter to Yes for the feature and configure the Quantity parameter.
Read and select Security Center Terms of Service, click Order Now, confirm the order information, and then complete the payment.
Downgrade
Log on to the Security Center console.
On the Overview page, choose .
On the Order Downgrade tab, downgrade specifications.
To reduce the number of protected servers, reduce the value of the Protected Servers parameter to a value that is no less than the number of the servers that consume quotas.
NoteIf you purchase Security Center in full protection mode and you downgrade the specifications, the value of the Protected Servers parameter must be greater than or equal to the number of servers within your Alibaba Cloud account, and the value of the vCore parameter must be greater than or equal to the cores of the servers within your Alibaba Cloud account.
To disable a value-added feature, set the Purchase or Not parameter to No for the feature.
To reduce the purchased quota or capacity for a value-added feature, release servers that are protected by Security Center or release capacity.
ImportantThe refund amount after the downgrade displayed on the Downgrade page shall prevail.
Read and select Security Center Terms of Service, click Order Now, and then complete the payment.