Auto-renewal

Notes

• The system makes the first auto-renewal payment attempt at 08:00 (UTC+8), nine days before the instance expires. If this attempt fails, the system retries daily for the next two days, for a total of three attempts. Please ensure that your Alibaba Cloud account has a sufficient balance to prevent renewal failure.

  Warning

  If all three payment attempts fail, you must manually renew the instance to prevent service disruptions and potential data loss.

• If you manually renew an instance before its scheduled auto-renewal, the system cancels the next automatic payment and reschedules the auto-renewal based on the new expiration date.

• The auto-renewal feature takes effect the day after you enable it. If your instance expires the next day, you must renew it manually to avoid service interruption. For detailed steps, see manual renewal.

Enable auto-renewal during purchase

Enable auto-renewal after purchase

1. Log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console.

2. In the upper-right corner of the RDS console, hover over Fee, and in the pop-up window, select Renewal.

3. On the renewal management page, use the search and filter features to find the target instance on the manual renewal or non-renewal tab. You can enable auto-renewal for a single instance or for multiple instances in bulk:

   • For a single instance

     1. In the row of the target instance, click Enable Auto-renewal in the Actions column.

     2. In the dialog box that appears, select Auto-renewal Cycle, and click Enable Auto-renewal.

   • For multiple instances

     1. Select multiple target instances, and click Enable Auto-renewal.

     2. In the dialog box that appears, select Auto-renewal Cycle, and click Enable Auto-renewal.

Modify auto-renewal cycle

1. Log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console.

2. In the upper-right corner of the RDS console, hover over Fee, and in the pop-up window, select Renewal.

3. On the renewal management page, find the target instance on the auto-renewal tab. In the Actions column, click Modify Auto-renewal Settings.

4. In the dialog box that appears, modify Auto-renewal Cycle and click OK.

Disable auto-renewal

1. Log on to the ApsaraDB RDS console.

2. In the upper-right corner of the RDS console, hover over Fee, and in the pop-up window, select Renewal.

3. On the Auto-renewal tab, use the filter feature to find the target instance. Click Nonrenewal on the right, or click > Enable Manual Renewal.

4. In the dialog box that appears, click OK.

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