Billed Items

Direct Connect provides standard connections, hosted connections, and full-service connections.

Billed items of a standard or full-service connection: port, outbound traffic, one-time setup for connecting the leased line to the port provided by Huawei Cloud, leased line, and in-building cabling.
Billed items of a hosted connection: outbound traffic and leased line

Huawei Cloud billed items include the port, outbound traffic, and one-time setup (free for now). Non-Huawei Cloud billed items include the leased line and in-building cabling.

Outbound Traffic

Outbound traffic refers to the traffic from the cloud network to the port used in your on-premises data center.

From July 1, 2024 00:00 GMT+8:00, Huawei Cloud Direct Connect will start billing you for the outbound traffic. Each Huawei Cloud account will have 50 TB of free outbound traffic each month. This preferential policy will last until December 31, 2025 24:00 GMT+8:00. From January 1, 2026 00:00 GMT+8:00, no free outbound traffic will be provided.

Table 1 describes the pricing details.

**Table 1** Outbound traffic pricing details
Connection Type	Billed Usage Period	Formula	Free Outbound Traffic
Standard connection	A bill is generated each hour. You are billed based on the outbound traffic you use in each hour.	Outbound traffic price = Outbound traffic unit price x Total outbound traffic of all standard connections in the current region	If your Huawei Cloud account has connections in multiple regions, the free outbound traffic that can be used by each connection depends on the time when they were created. The connections you buy earlier enjoy the free outbound traffic first.
Full-service connection		Outbound traffic price = Outbound traffic unit price x Total outbound traffic of all full-service connections in the current region
Hosted connection		Outbound traffic price = Outbound traffic unit price x Total outbound traffic of all hosted connections in the current region

The outbound traffic price varies by geographic region. For details, see Table 2.

**Table 2** Regions where outbound traffic will be billed and pricing details
Geographic Region	Huawei Cloud Regions	Price per GB (USD)
Chinese mainland	CN South-Guangzhou-InvitationOnly, CN North-Ulanqab-Auto1, CN Southwest-Guiyang1, CN East-Qingdao, CN East-Shanghai2, CN South-Guangzhou, CN North-Beijing2, CN North-Ulanqab1, CN East-Shanghai1, CN North-Beijing4, and CN East-1	0.0125
Asia Pacific	AP-Bangkok, AP-Singapore, and CN-Hong Kong	0.039
Asia Pacific	AP-Jakarta	0.078
Latin America	LA-Mexico City1, LA-Mexico City2, LA-Sao Paulo1, and LA-Santiago	0.1045
Southern Africa	AF-Johannesburg and AF-Cairo	0.1045
Europe	EU-Dublin and TR-Istanbul	0.019
Middle East	ME-Riyadh	0.0855

Billed Items of a Standard Connection

Billed items of a standard connection include the port, one-time setup, outbound traffic, leased line, and in-building cabling. You pay for the port and one-time setup to Huawei Cloud.

For details, see Table 3.

**Table 3** Billed items
Billed Item	Description	Billing Mode	Formula
Port	The port is billed based on its specifications.	Yearly/Monthly (prepaid)	Unit price x Duration For port prices, see Direct Connect Pricing Details.
Outbound traffic	You will be billed for the outbound traffic from July 1, 2024 00:00 GMT+8:00. Outbound traffic refers to the traffic from the cloud network to the port used in your on-premises data center.	You will be billed based on the traffic you use.	Price per GB x Traffic
One-time setup	Currently, the one-time setup is free.	Free	Free
Leased line	You need to pay to the carrier for the line that is used to connect your on-premises data center to the Direct Connect location you select.	Pay for the leased line to the carrier.	Consult 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 for the property of the data center for in-building cabling.	Consult the property of the data center.

Billed Items of a Full-Service Connection

Billed items of a full-service connection include port, one-time setup, leased line, and in-building cabling. You pay for all these items to Huawei Cloud.

For details, see Table 4.

**Table 4** Billed items
Billed Item	Description	Billing Mode	Formula
Port	The port is billed based on its specifications.	Yearly/Monthly (prepaid)	Unit price x Duration For port prices, see Direct Connect Pricing Details.
Outbound traffic	You will be billed for the outbound traffic from July 1, 2024 00:00 GMT+8:00. Outbound traffic refers to the traffic from the cloud network to the port used in your on-premises data center.	You will be billed based on the traffic you use.	Price per GB x Traffic
One-time setup	Currently, the one-time setup is free.	Free	Free
Leased line	You need to pay to the carrier for the line that is used to connect your on-premises data center to the Direct Connect location you select.	Pay for both to Huawei Cloud.	-
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.	Pay for both to Huawei Cloud.	-

Billed Items of a Hosted Connection

To use a hosted connection, you only need to pay for the partner for the leased line.

For details, see Table 5.

**Table 5** Billed items
Billed Item	Description	Billing Mode	Formula
Outbound traffic	You will be billed for the outbound traffic from July 1, 2024 00:00 GMT+8:00. Outbound traffic refers to the traffic from the cloud network to the port used in your on-premises data center.	You will be billed based on the traffic you use.	Price per GB x Traffic
Leased line	You need to pay to the partner for the line that is used to connect your on-premises data center to the Direct Connect location you select.	Pay for the partner for the leased line.	Consult the partner.