Overview

This section details the billing modes, billing items, renewal procedures, and handling of arrears for the DSC and API Data Security Instances.

• Billing Modes

  DSC supports the yearly/monthly (prepaid) billing mode. The APIs (data masking and watermarking) support the pay-per-use (postpaid) billing mode. Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid mode. You need to pay first, and will be billed based on the required duration in your order. Ensure that your account balance is sufficient. Pay-per-use billing is a postpaid mode. In this mode, you pay for what you used. For more details, see Billing Mode Overview.

• Billing items

  The billing items of Huawei Cloud DSC consist of the service fee, database expansion package fee, and OBS expansion package fee. For details about DSC billing items and calculation formulas, see Billing Items. Different billing calculation formulas are used based on billing modes. For details about billing examples, see Billing Examples.

• Renewal

  After the DSC instance purchased in yearly/monthly mode expires, its protection functions will be unavailable. If you want to continue using the protection functions of DSC, you need to renew DSC within the specified period. Otherwise, resources such as the database expansion package and OBS expansion package will be automatically removed, and data may be lost.

  You have the option to renew your subscription manually or enable automatic renewal. For more details about renewal, see Renewal Overview.

• Bills

  You can choose Billing and Costs > Bills to view transaction records and detailed bills related to DSC. For details, see Bills.

• Arrears

  If the balance of a DSC account cannot cover the bills, the account is in arrears. If you are in arrears, you need to top up your account in a timely manner to avoid your DSC instance being affected. For details, see Arrears.

• Billing termination

  You can unsubscribe from or delete DSC if they are no longer used. For details, see Stopping Billing.