How Will I Be Billed for Direct Connect?

Billed Items

• Standard connection

  The following figure shows the items that you need to pay for a standard connection.

  

  Table 1 Standard connection pricing

  Payee	Billed Item	Description	Payment Method
  Huawei Cloud	Port	The port is billed based on its specifications.	Prepaid (yearly/monthly subscription)
  	One-time setup	Currently, the one-time setup is free.	-
  Carrier or Huawei Cloud partner	Leased line	To connect your on-premises data center to the cloud, you need to lease a line from the carrier.	-
  	In-building cabling	A fiber may be required for connecting your leased line to the equipment room at the Direct Connect location you select if the data center at the Direct Connect location is a carrier-neutral data center. You pay to the property of the neutral data center.	-

• Hosted connection

  If you buy a hosted connection from a Huawei Cloud partner, you share the port with other users and do not need to pay for one-time setup and the port to Huawei Cloud.

  The following figure shows the billed items of a hosted connection.

  

  Table 2 Hosted connection billing details

  Payee	Billed Item	Description	Payment Method
  Carrier or Huawei Cloud partner	Leased line	Your partner has established network connectivity with Huawei Cloud. You need to pay for the leased line to the partner.	-

  For details, see Product Pricing Details.

Billing Mode

Yearly/Monthly

Changing Billing Mode

Only Yearly/Monthly billing is supported, and it cannot be changed.

Renewal

For details, see Renewal Management.

Expiration and Overdue Payment

For details, see Service Suspension and Resource Release and Payment and Repayment.