This topic describes the impacts of overdue payments that occur after ApsaraMQ for Kafka instances expire. To prevent business from being interrupted, we recommend that you renew an instance before it expires.
Impacts of overdue payments
If the ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance that you purchased is a subscription instance, the instance enters the Expired state immediately after the instance expires. In this case, you can use the instance only after you renew it.
If the ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance that you purchased is a pay-as-you-go instance or a serverless instance and the balance in your Alibaba Cloud account is insufficient to settle the outstanding payment, the instance expires when the grace period for overdue payments elapses. In this case, you can use the instance only after you add sufficient funds to your Alibaba Cloud account.
If you do not renew the ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance within 168 hours after the instance expires, the instance is released and data in the instance cannot be restored. If you want to release an ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance before the instance expires, you can forcibly delete the instance in the ApsaraMQ for Kafka console. For more information, see Manage the lifecycle of an instance.
To prevent business from being interrupted, we recommend that you renew an instance before the instance expires. For more information, see Instance renewal.
References
The operations that you can perform in the ApsaraMQ for Kafka console to manage the lifecycle of an ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance, see Manage the lifecycle of an instance.