Manage subscription resources
After you purchase prepaid cloud resources or services on Alibaba Cloud, you can use My Subscriptions to manage all your subscriptions, including renewing, unsubscribing, and viewing usage details.
What is a subscription?
A subscription is a prepaid purchasing model that lets you purchase cloud services for a fixed period at a lower price, reducing your costs. It includes the following types:
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Typical products |
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Instance-bound subscription (subscription) |
You prepay for the use of a resource for a fixed period, such as one year. This model offers a lower unit price and greater cost savings by locking in a specific cloud resource configuration for the subscription term. |
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Single-resource deduction subscription (resource pack) |
You prepay for a specific amount of resource usage at a discounted rate. During its validity period, the resource pack offsets charges for your pay-as-you-go resources. |
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Cross-resource deduction subscription (Savings Plan) |
You commit to a specific amount of spending over a term, such as one or three years. In return, your pay-as-you-go usage for eligible resources is billed at a discounted rate and deducted from your commitment. |
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Software Service Subscription |
You prepay to use a software service for a fixed term. |
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Manage subscriptions
Log on to the Billing Management console and click My Subscriptions. On the My Subscriptions page, you can view and manage all your prepaid subscriptions:
The My Subscriptions page displays only subscription-based services, such as subscriptions, resource packs, and Savings Plans. It does not include pay-as-you-go resources like ECS or OSS. To view a complete list of your active cloud services, go to the Resource List on the console homepage.
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Find and filter subscriptions: You can filter your subscriptions by Expiration Date, Product Category, or Status.
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View subscription details: Click a Subscription ID to view detailed information, including the subscription content, validity period, and associated orders.
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View and set subscription tags: You can apply tags to categorize subscriptions, making them easier to manage. For more information about using tags, see What is a tag?.
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Renew a subscription: You can extend a subscription's term through Auto-renewal or Manual Renewal to ensure your services and benefits continue uninterrupted. For more information about renewal rules, see Renew an expired resource.
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Unsubscribe from a subscription: If you no longer need a subscription, you can click Unsubscribe. Alibaba Cloud processes the unsubscription and issues any applicable refunds according to the unsubscription rules. For more information about these rules, see Unsubscription rules.
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Upgrade a subscription: If a subscription's configuration no longer meets your needs, click Upgrade to go to the product console and upgrade the instance configuration. For more information about upgrade billing, see Billing for resource upgrades.
If a subscription does not support renewal, unsubscription, or upgrade, the corresponding button is disabled.
View all active cloud services
To view a list of all your active cloud services, including pay-as-you-go resources like ECS and OSS, use the Resource List feature on the console homepage.
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Log on to the Alibaba Cloud Console.
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In the My Resources section, click the Resource List tab.
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View all cloud service resources under the current account, including information such as resource ID, name, region, product category, resource type, and creation time.
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Use filters such as region, product category, and resource type to narrow down the list.
Set subscription quota alerts
You can set quota alerts for resource pack subscriptions. Quota alerts are supported for total-amount and monthly-cycle resource packs. This feature is not available for hourly or daily-cycle resource packs.
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Monthly-cycle packs: A notification is sent when the remaining quota falls to the specified threshold, and another is sent when the quota is depleted.
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Total-amount packs: A notification is sent when the remaining quota falls to the specified threshold, and another is sent when the quota is depleted.
On the My Subscriptions page, click Set Quota Alert to enable or disable alerts. When enabled, the system sends a notification when the remaining subscription quota falls below the specified percentage.
View subscription deduction details
On the My Subscriptions page, click View Deduction Details to go to the Cost Details page. On this page, you can view the detailed cost consumption data for your subscriptions. For information about cost allocation rules, see Examples of the cost allocation process.
Managing subscriptions with a management account
If your account is not a management account and you want to use this feature, see Activation Guide to upgrade your account.
View subscription information for member accounts
The My Subscriptions feature supports multi-account management. A management account can view the subscription information of all member accounts within the organization.
Set shared deduction rules for subscriptions
An administrator of a management account can share subscriptions, including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances (RIs), and existing capacity unit packs, from the management account or a member account with other member accounts.
On the My Subscriptions page, in the Actions column of a subscription that supports sharing, click 
and select Set Sharing Rules. This redirects you to the Benefit Asset Sharing page. For more information about sharing rules and methods, see Benefit Asset Sharing.