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Data Security Center:Billing for related products

Last Updated:Apr 18, 2026

When you connect data assets from your Alibaba Cloud account or a member account to Data Security Center (DSC), you may incur fees for reading data from certain data assets and storing audit logs. These fees are charged to the Alibaba Cloud account or member account that owns the assets. This topic details the billing for these associated fees.

The following table describes the additional fees for both Alibaba Cloud accounts and member accounts.

Asset type

Data identification

Data audit

RDS

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Starting from April 17, 2024 (inclusive), no additional fees are incurred when you enable native audit log collection for the corresponding RDS instances.

If you enabled native audit log collection before April 17, 2024 (exclusive), the Alibaba Cloud account or member account that owns the asset is charged for SQL Explorer and Audit and the log storage fee. You must disable and then re-enable the Cloud-native Audit Log Collection mode for the asset. After you re-enable this mode, no additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Note

Billing details for assets that had the feature enabled before April 17, 2024 (exclusive):

  • SQL Explorer and Audit: After enabling native audit log collection for an RDS database, DSC automatically enables the SQL Explorer feature for that database. The member account is responsible for the resulting fees, which are billed by RDS. For more information about the billing rules, see Billable items.

  • Log storage fee: The SQL Explorer feature creates a Log Service (SLS) Logstore to store raw SQL logs from the RDS service. By default, data in this Logstore is stored for three days. The member account is responsible for the resulting storage fees, which are billed by Log Service (SLS). For more information about the billing rules, see Billing overview.

PolarDB

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Starting from April 17, 2024 (inclusive), no additional fees are incurred when you enable native audit log collection for the corresponding PolarDB instances.

If you enabled native audit log collection before April 17, 2024 (exclusive), the Alibaba Cloud account or member account that owns the asset is charged for SQL Explorer and Audit and the log storage fee. You must disable and then re-enable the Cloud-native Audit Log Collection mode for the asset. After you re-enable this mode, no additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

PolarDB-X

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

After enabling native audit log collection for a PolarDB-X asset, a Project named drds-audit-<region ID>-<UID of the asset owner's account> is created in the Log Service (SLS) console. The corresponding Logstore within this Project is named drds-audit-log. By default, data in this Logstore is stored for 45 days.

The asset owner's account is responsible for the storage fees for this data, which are billed by Log Service (SLS). For billing details, see Billing overview.

PolarDB-X 2.0

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

The security audit feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Redis

The data insight feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

The security audit feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

MongoDB

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

After enabling the audit feature for a MongoDB asset in the DSC console, DSC automatically enables the audit log feature for MongoDB. The asset owner's account is responsible for the fees for using the MongoDB audit log feature, which are billed by MongoDB. For more information, see Enable the audit log feature.

OceanBase

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Self-managed database

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

The security audit feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Object Storage Service (OSS)

  • DSC sends one or two GET requests to identify an Object Storage Service (OSS) object. These requests incur fees based on the billing method of the asset owner's account. For example, if a member account uses the pay-as-you-go billing method, these fees appear in that account's pay-as-you-go orders for OSS. For billing details, see Billing overview.

  • Syncing sensitive data tags from DSC to OSS requires calling OSS APIs, which incur fees based on the number of calls. Syncing tags is a Put-type request for adding or modifying object tags and is billed based on the number of Put requests. For details, see Request fees.

After enabling native audit log collection for an OSS asset, a Project named oss-log-<UID of the asset owner's account>-<region ID> is created in the Log Service (SLS) console. The corresponding Logstore within this Project is named oss-log-store. By default, data in this Logstore is stored for 7 days.

  • No fees are incurred if data in this Logstore is stored for no more than 7 days and does not exceed 900 GB.

  • The asset owner's account is responsible for these fees, which are billed by Log Service (SLS), if data is stored for more than 7 days or exceeds 900 GB. For billing details, see Billing overview.

Tablestore

The asset owner's account is responsible for fees for reading data from Tablestore, which are billed by Tablestore. For billing details, see Billing overview.

After enabling native audit log collection for a Tablestore asset, a Project named tablestore-log-<UID of the asset owner's account>-<region ID> is created in the Log Service (SLS) console. The corresponding Logstore within this Project is named tablestore-auditlog-store. By default, data in this Logstore is stored for 7 days.

The asset owner's account is responsible for the storage fees for this data, which are billed by Log Service (SLS). For billing details, see Billing overview.

MaxCompute

The asset owner's account is responsible for fees for reading data from a MaxCompute project, which are billed by MaxCompute. These fees include computing fees and data transfer fees for public network downloads. For billing details, see Billable items and billing methods.

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

AnalyticDB-MYSQL

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

AnalyticDB-PG

The data insight feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

The security audit feature is not supported for this asset type. No additional fees are incurred for the asset owner's account.

Related documents

DSC uses a subscription (prepaid) billing model. For details, see Billing overview.