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Prepaid Mirrors FAQ for Mirrors Marketplace

What is the mirror market for monthly and weekly packages?

Monthly and weekly paid images in the mirror market refer to images purchased from Alibaba Cloud Market and paid for by week, month or year. These images are developed and maintained by the mirror vendor, and all pre-sales consulting and after-sales service is provided by the mirror vendor. In this article, such images are collectively referred to as prepaid images.

What ECS instances can prepaid mirroring work with?

Prepaid images can only be used with monthly and weekly instances, and the image and ECS instances should have the same billing cycle.

How do I buy a prepaid mirror? Can I buy it separately?

At this time, you cannot purchase prepaid images separately.

You can purchase prepaid images in any of the following ways:

When creating an ECS instance, select the payment method of monthly package, mirror from mirror market, and then select weekly, monthly, or annual payment.

In this case, you pay for both instances and mirrors. If the instance is created successfully, it means that you have paid for both the instance and the mirror, and there will be no case where one of the resource purchases fails.

If you want to use a prepaid image on an existing monthly or weekly ECS instance, you can replace the operating system with a prepaid image using the Replace OS feature, in which case you can only select the billing cycle for the image based on the billing cycle for the ECS instance. For details, please refer to the replacement operating system.

In this case, you only have to pay for mirroring.

How do I pay for a prepaid mirror?

Prepaid mirroring is prepaid and the billing cycle should be consistent with the monthly or weekly ECS instances that use it.

The price of the mirror is based on the information provided by the supplier.

Prepaid mirror expired can not be used it? How can I continue using it?

After the prepaid mirror expires, it cannot be used again if it is not renewed in time.

You cannot renew a prepaid image separately. If you want to continue, you can renew the mirror at the same time as renewing the ECS instance. After renewal, you can continue to use the mirror.

After purchasing a prepaid image, can I ask for a refund if I no longer want to use it?

Refunds are at the discretion of the mirror vendor. You can consult your mirror vendor before purchasing.

How to settle the fee when refunding?

If a refund is available, the mirror vendor will refund you based on your actual usage.

Can prepaid images be converted to pay-per-view images?

Conversion to a pay-per-view image is currently not supported. We will provide this function in the future. Please pay attention to Alibaba Cloud official website announcement for specific time.

Can prepaid images be interchanged with other images? How to calculate the cost after replacement?

Yes. You can replace mirrors by replacing system disks with ECS instances. There are several options when replacing mirrors:

Replace other types of mirrors (such as public mirrors, custom mirrors, shared mirrors) with prepaid mirrors: After the replacement, the actual cost is calculated based on the cost of the mirror and the remaining billing period of the ECS instance.

Replace prepaid images with other types of images (e.g. public images, custom images, shared images): If the provider allows refunds, the image provider will refund you based on your actual usage.

Exchange a prepaid mirror (set as Mirror A) for another prepaid mirror (set as Mirror B): After the exchange, if Mirror A allows a refund, the fee will be charged as a refund, and Mirror B will be charged based on the price of the mirror and the remaining billing period of the ECS instance.

Where can I view and manage my purchased prepaid images?

You can log in to the ECS Management Console of Cloud Virtual Machine to view and manage your purchased prepaid images in Mirrors> Mirror Marketplace.

Is there a charge for custom mirroring using prepaid mirroring? What is the impact of prepaid mirror expiration on custom mirrors?

When you use a custom image made from a prepaid image, whether you create an instance using the custom image or replace a system disk, you are re-ordering the right to use the image in the image market. Therefore, whether the prepaid image used to make the custom image expires has no effect on the use of the custom image.

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