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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 per use. 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

Platinum edition (outside 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

    Key instances created or imported during the promotion period from October 1, 2021 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 key is created, it will be charged . You pay for the keys you created and the API requests that are beyond the free-of-charge range.

  • 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.

  • CSMS

    You are billed per use. No minimum fee is required. After a secret is created, it is charged by day. You pay for the secrets you created and the API requests that exceed the free-of-charge threshold.

For price details, see Product Pricing Details.

Renewal

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

For details about the retention period, 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 is in arrears, you can check the details in the Billing Center. To prevent related resources from being stopped or released, top up your account in time. For details, see Making Repayments (Prepaid Direct Customers).

FAQ

For more billing FAQs, see DEW FAQs.