Security Center:[Notice] Changes to Cloud Threat Detection and Response (CTDR) billing

Item

Before

After

Billable item

Log Storage Capacity: Charged based on the volume of logs added to CTDR.

• Log Data to Add: Charged based on log volume added to CTDR, using tiered pricing. CTDR standardizes logs from cloud platforms, services, and data sources using the Alibaba Cloud security data model, enabling alerting, event handling, and SOAR.

• Log storage capacity (hot storage): Charged based on the volume of logs delivered to hot storage.

Billing method

Subscription

Subscription

Price

USD 0.44 per GB-month

Tiered pricing based on daily log volume:

• Tier 1: If the log size is less than or equal to 10 GB, the unit price is USD 0.6 per GB-day.

• Tier 2: If the log size is greater than 10 GB but less than or equal to 50 GB, the unit price is USD 0.48 per GB-day.

• Tier 3: If the log size is greater than 50 GB but less than or equal to 100 GB, the unit price is USD 0.45 per GB-day.

• Tier 4: If the log size is greater than 100 GB but less than or equal to 9,999,999 GB, the unit price is USD 0.42 per GB-day.

If you deliver logs for hot storage, the unit price is USD 0.1 per GB-month.

Account type

CTDR purchased

Impact

Switch to new rules

Management account, delegated administrator account, and a member of a resource directory

Yes

• Existing subscribers continue on the current billing rules for renewals, specification changes, and upgrades/downgrades.

• If you use a member that is added to the feature for monitoring, take note of the following impacts:

  • Adding logs is free. Alerting, event handling, and SOAR remain free. If you set Log Data to Add to a value greater than 0, the new billing rules apply.

  • Log storage capacity resets to 0. To view log data, purchase hot storage capacity under the new billing rules.

• Previously, only one account per resource directory could purchase CTDR. Under the new rules, this limit is removed.

Unsubscribe from the current plan before purchasing under the new billing rules.

No

New purchases use the new billing rules.

Only new billing rules apply.

Standalone Alibaba Cloud account (not a management account or resource directory member)

Yes

Renewals, specification changes, and upgrades/downgrades continue under the current billing rules.

Cannot switch directly. Unsubscribe first, then repurchase under the new billing rules.

No

New purchases use the new billing rules.

Only new billing rules apply.