This topic describes the API behavior when your account has an overdue payment or your subscription resources expire.
API behavior
An account has an overdue payment when a DescribeInstances or DescribeDisks call returns the OperationLocks parameter with LockReason: financial.
In the following tables, Normal logic means the operation works as expected.
Table 1. API behavior for an instance with an overdue payment
API | Behavior |
AllocatePublicIpAddress | Error |
AttachDisk | Error |
AuthorizeSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
CreateDisk | Error |
CreateImage | Normal logic |
CreateInstance | Error |
CreateSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
CreateSnapshot | Normal logic |
DeleteDisk | Normal logic |
DeleteImage | Normal logic |
DeleteInstance | Normal logic |
DeleteSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
DeleteSnapshot | Normal logic |
DescribeAutoSnapshotPolicy | Normal logic |
DescribeDisks | Normal logic |
DescribeImages | Normal logic |
DescribeInstances | Normal logic |
DescribeInstanceStatus | Normal logic |
DescribeInstanceTypes | Normal logic |
DescribeInstanceMonitorData | Normal logic |
DescribeRegions | Normal logic |
DescribeSecurityGroupAttribute | Normal logic |
DescribeSecurityGroups | Normal logic |
DescribeSnapshotAttribute | Normal logic |
DescribeSnapshots | Normal logic |
DescribeZones | Normal logic |
DetachDisk | Normal logic |
JoinSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
LeaveSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicy | Normal logic |
ModifyDiskAttribute | Normal logic |
ModifyInstanceAttribute | Normal logic |
RebootInstance | Error |
ReInitDisk | Error |
ReplaceSystemDisk | Error |
ResetDisk | Error |
RevokeSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
StartInstance | Error |
StopInstance | Error |
Table 2. API behavior for a disk with an overdue payment
API | Behavior |
AllocatePublicIpAddress | Error |
AttachDisk | Error |
AuthorizeSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
CreateDisk | Error |
CreateImage | Normal logic |
CreateInstance | Error |
CreateSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
CreateSnapshot | Normal logic |
DeleteDisk | Normal logic |
DeleteImage | Normal logic |
DeleteInstance | Normal logic |
DeleteSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
DeleteSnapshot | Normal logic |
DescribeAutoSnapshotPolicy | Normal logic |
DescribeDisks | Normal logic |
DescribeImages | Normal logic |
DescribeInstances | Normal logic |
DescribeInstanceStatus | Normal logic |
DescribeInstanceMonitorData | Normal logic |
DescribeRegions | Normal logic |
DescribeSecurityGroupAttribute | Normal logic |
DescribeSecurityGroups | Normal logic |
DescribeSnapshotAttribute | Normal logic |
DescribeSnapshots | Normal logic |
DescribeZones | Normal logic |
DetachDisk | Normal logic |
JoinSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
LeaveSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
ModifyAutoSnapshotPolicy | Normal logic |
ModifyDiskAttribute | Normal logic |
ModifyInstanceAttribute | Error |
ModifyInstanceSpec | Error |
RebootInstance | Error |
ReInitDisk | Error |
ReplaceSystemDisk | Error |
ResetDisk | Error |
RevokeSecurityGroup | Normal logic |
StartInstance | Error |
StopInstance | Error |