Many Security Services of the Open Telekom Cloud are free, including identity and account management, the anti-DDos-Service, and EVS and OBS encryption.

The use of Key Management Service (KMS) incurs usage-based charges. The usage of the generated keys is calculated on an hourly basis. The free contingent for KMS comprises 20,000 API calls. In addition, API calls incur charges: 1,000 calls generate a cost of 0.3 cents.

The Web Application Firewall protects web domains. Its special feature is that the hours are split into tiers on a scale.

Cost of WAF, conversion to monthly WAFs that are used full-time (approximate values)

As with the other scales, the scales are quantity-based, i.e., in the case of ten commissioned WAFs, the first scale is used for the first three WAFs, the second for the following four and the third for the last three. Additional costs for requests occur: one million requests will be charged with 60 cents. Apart from requests and WAF instances, there are no other costs. You can create as many rules/policies as you want without incurring any additional costs.