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Updated on 2025-08-13 GMT+08:00
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Billing Overview

This section details the billing modes, billing items, renewal procedures, and handling of arrears for DSC and API data security protection 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.
    • API Data Security Protection instances support the yearly/monthly (prepaid) 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. 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 formulas, see Billing Items. Billing formulas vary depending on billing modes. For details, see Billing Examples.
    • The billing items for API Data Security Protection instances comprise edition fees. For details about the billing items and formulas, see Billing Items. Billing formulas vary depending on billing modes. For details, 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.

    Yearly/monthly API data security protection instances will be released upon expiration. To continue using the instance, renew the subscription within the specified period. Otherwise, the resource will be automatically released and data may be lost. Select manual renewal or automatic renewal as required. 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/API Data Security Protection instances. For details, see Bills.

  • Arrears

    When using DSC or API data security protection instances, if the balance of your 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 or API data security protection instances if no longer required. For details, see Stopping Billing.