Terminate the WAF service
When your WAF instance expires and you no longer need WAF protection, terminate the service to stop routing traffic through WAF and release the instance.
Background
- You no longer want to use a pay-as-you-go WAF instance.
- Your subscription WAF instance has expired and you do not plan to renew it.
- You are changing the billing method of your WAF instance from pay-as-you-go to subscription.
- You are changing the billing method of your WAF instance from subscription to pay-as-you-go, and the current subscription has expired.
- Before you terminate your WAF instance, update the DNS records for your protected website domain names to point back to your origin servers. For instructions, see Modify DNS records.
- After you terminate your WAF instance, all configuration information for your website domain names is permanently deleted. If traffic is still routed to the WAF instance, requests cannot be forwarded, and your website domain names will become unresponsive.
Prerequisites
- You can terminate a subscription WAF instance only after it expires.
- You can terminate a pay-as-you-go WAF instance only if it has received few or no requests in the last two days.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure that:
Your WAF instance has expired. For subscription instances, the Terminate WAF Service button is only available after the instance expires.
Your DNS records for all protected websites point to your origin servers, not to WAF CNAME addresses.
Terminate the service
Log on to the WAF console. In the top navigation bar, select the resource group and the region where your WAF instance is deployed (Chinese Mainland or Outside Chinese Mainland).
In the upper-right corner of the Overview page, click Terminate WAF Service.
Verify that DNS records for all protected websites point to your origin servers, then click OK.
What to do next
To resume WAF protection, purchase a new WAF 3.0 instance:
You can also go directly to the WAF buy page to compare options.