The pay-as-you-go billing method is suitable for short-term or temporary business scenarios, and the subscription billing method is suitable for long-term or stable business scenarios. You can change the billing method of your Hologres instance between pay-as-you-go and subscription to adapt to your business changes. This helps reduce costs. This topic describes how to change the billing method of an instance in Hologres.
Usage notes
For more information about the pay-as-you-go and subscription billing methods, see Billing overview.
After you change the billing method of your instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription, 0 GB of storage resources are allocated to your instance by default. If data is stored in your instance, you are charged based on the pay-as-you-go billing method. After you purchase subscription storage resources, you are charged based on the subscription billing method.
For more information about how to calculate the refund amount when you change the billing method from subscription to pay-as-you-go, see Request a refund after the change of the billing method from subscription to pay-as-you-go in the "Rules for unsubscribing from resources" topic.
Procedure
Log on to the Hologres console. In the top navigation bar, select a region.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Instances.
Find the desired instance, and click Switch to Subscription or Switch to Pay-As-You-Go in the Billing Method column.
On the Switch to Subscription or Switch to Pay-As-You-Go page, configure the parameters.
Configure the Duration parameter. This parameter is required only when you change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription.
Read the terms of service, and select the check box to confirm that you have read the terms of service.
Click Buy Now and complete the payment.
References
You can upgrade or downgrade specifications of the computing and storage resources of your Hologres instance based on your business requirements to improve resource utilization. For more information, see Upgrade or downgrade instance specifications.