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Edge Security Acceleration:Resource plans

Last Updated:Jun 16, 2026

Alibaba Cloud DCDN resource plans offer significant savings over pay-as-you-go pricing. Learn about the available plan types and their deduction rules.

Note

For billing details of services associated with resource plans, see the DCDN Pricing page.

Resource plan

Description

Purchase URL

Outbound traffic

Offsets DCDN outbound traffic.

Important

To use this resource plan to offset outbound traffic costs, your metering method must be pay-by-data-transfer. If your current metering method is pay-by-bandwidth, the remaining quota in the resource plan is frozen until you switch back to pay-by-data-transfer.

Data transfer plan

DDoS mitigation plan

To enable Anti-DDoS, you must purchase a protection plan of a specific edition (Insurance or Unlimited).DDoS mitigation

Important

After you enable the protection service and add a domain name, an additional pay-as-you-go fee for scrubbed traffic applies. This fee is based on the DCDN outbound traffic generated by the domain name. For pricing details on scrubbed traffic, see Billing of DDoS mitigation.

Anti-DDoS

Edge WAF SeCU plan (new edition)

Offsets SeCUs consumed by the new edition of Edge WAF.Overview of WAF (new edition)

Edge WAF SeCU plan (new edition)

Outbound traffic

You can purchase multiple outbound traffic resource plans. If you have multiple plans, the one expiring soonest is deducted first. The system calculates outbound traffic usage every hour. Usage within the quota is deducted from the remaining balance. Overage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis.

DCDN provides eight outbound traffic resource plans based on acceleration region. Each plan offsets usage only within its specified region; cross-region deductions are not supported.

Acceleration region

Description

Chinese mainland

For acceleration in the Chinese mainland.

Asia Pacific 1

For acceleration in Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), Japan, and Southeast Asian countries and regions excluding Vietnam and Indonesia.

Asia Pacific 2

For acceleration in India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Asia Pacific 3

For acceleration in Australia and New Zealand.

North America

For acceleration in North America.

Europe

For acceleration in Europe.

Middle East and Africa

For acceleration in the Middle East and Africa.

South America

For acceleration in South America.

Edge WAF SeCU plan (new edition)

The new edition of Edge WAF is a pay-as-you-go service billed by Security Capacity Units (SeCUs). All billable items are converted into SeCUs.

You can purchase multiple Edge WAF SeCU plans. If you have multiple plans, the one that expires soonest is deducted first. The system calculates SeCU consumption every hour. Usage within the quota is deducted from the remaining balance. Overage is billed based on the number of consumed SeCUs.

DDoS mitigation plan

DDoS protection helps defend your accelerated domain names against DDoS attacks. To enable Anti-DDoS, you must purchase a protection plan of a specific edition (Insurance or Unlimited).

After you enable the protection service and add a domain name, an additional pay-as-you-go fee for scrubbed traffic applies. This fee is based on the DCDN outbound traffic generated by the domain name. For pricing details on scrubbed traffic, see Billing of DDoS mitigation.