Overview

In this document, you will learn about the billing modes, billing items, renewal, and arrear of Data Security Center (DCS).

• Billing Modes

  If you use DSC through the console, you will be billed on a yearly/monthly basis, which is prepaid. If you use DSC by APIs, including data masking and watermark APIs, you pay for what you used. Yearly/Monthly billing is a prepaid mode. In this mode, you pay for resources before using them. Your bill is settled based on the required duration you specify. Before you make a purchase, you need to ensure that your account balance is abundant. Pay-per-use billing is a postpaid mode. In this mode, you pay for what you used. For more details, see Overview of Billing Modes.

• 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 can enable auto-renewal for SecMaster or manually renew it before it expires. 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

  When the data security center is no longer used, you can unsubscribe from or delete it to avoid further charging. For details, see Stopping Billing.