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Billing Description

Billing Item

DEW charges based on your usage and purchased edition.

Table 1 Billing items

Service Name

Billing Mode

Billing Item

Description

Key Management Service (KMS)

Pay-per-use

Number of keys

Key instances that have been successfully created or imported are billed on a pay-per-use basis. Prices are calculated by hour, and no minimum fee is required.

Pay-per-use

API requests

The first 20,000 API requests are free of charge. Additional API calls are charged. The unit is 10,000 calls.

KPS

Pay-per-use

Number of key pairs

Free of charge

Pay-per-use

API requests

Free of charge

Dedicated HSM

Yearly/Monthly

Edition

Standard edition and platinum edition (Chinese mainland)

For details, see Editions.

Pay-per-use

API requests

Free of charge

Cloud Secret Management Service (CSMS)

Pay-per-use

Number of credentials

CSMS instances that have been successfully created or imported are billed on a pay-per-use basis. Prices are calculated by day, and no minimum fee is required.

Pay-per-use

API requests

Billed by the number of requests. The unit is 10,000 requests.

Billing

  • KMS
    You pay for CMKs you created or imported and API requests that are beyond the free-of-charge range.
    • Key instances created or imported during the promotion period from December 12, 2019 to March 31, 2022 are permanently free of charge. Key instances created or imported after March 31, 2022 will be charged.
    • KMS is charged per use. No minimum fee is required. Once a CMK is created or imported, it will be charged by hour.
    • The first 20,000 API requests are free of charge. Excess API requests will be charged. The unit is 10,000 requests.
  • KPS
    • If you do not choose to let Huawei Cloud manage your private keys when creating or importing them, no cost will be incurred.
    • If you choose to let Huawei Cloud manage your private keys after importing them, KPS is charged by hour. In the current version, it is free of charge.
  • Dedicated HSM

    Dedicated HSM offers monthly and yearly packages based on the edition and device models of instances you have purchased.

  • Secret management

    You are charged based on the number of secrets, usage duration, and number of API requests.

For price details, see "Product Pricing Details".

Changing Billing Mode

DEW does not support unsubscription currently.

Renewal

If you do not renew the yearly/monthly-billed DEW service upon its expiration, a retention period is available for you.

This period varies depending on your account. For details, see Retention Period.

To avoid unnecessary loss caused by security issues, renew your subscription before the retention period expires.

You can renew your resources on the management console. For details, see Manually Renewing a Resource.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

  • Expiration

    If you do not renew your subscription upon the expiration, a retention period is available for you. For details, see Retention Period.

  • Overdue Payment

    If your account has an outstanding amount, you can view its details in the Billing Center. To prevent related resources from being stopped or released, top up your account in time. For details, see Repaying Outstanding Amount.

FAQ

For more billing FAQs, see DEW FAQs.