Video On Demand (VOD) Service Level Agreement
Huawei Cloud Service Level Agreement General Terms

This Service Level Agreement (this “SLA”) is an integral part of your Huawei Cloud Customer Agreement (the “Customer Agreement”). Capitalized terms used in this SLA are as defined in the Customer Agreement unless otherwise stated in this SLA. Should there be any difference between this SLA and the Customer Agreement, this SLA shall prevail.

Huawei Cloud may modify the terms of this SLA from time to time, and this SLA is still effective for the period you already purchased; however, if you extend your period, the modified SLA will apply. If you disagree with the modified SLA, you may cease using the Services.

General Terms

1. Definitions

“Service Cycle” means a natural month.

“Total Time of Service Cycle” means the total minutes during every Service Cycle.

“Service Unavailable” will be defined for each Service in the Service Specific Terms thereafter. Service Unavailable does not include the situation that Cloud Service is unavailable due to the disclaimers described below and disclaimers in the following service specific terms.

“Service Unavailable Duration” means all the time when the Service is unavailable during a Service Cycle. If the duration is less than one month, it is still regarded as one month. Service Unavailable Duration cannot be calculated more than once. Every Service Unavailable Duration cannot be calculated again after the compensation being applied for.

“Service Availability” means during a Service Cycle, the service available percentage per Service Cycle achieved by the Cloud Service given in this SLA.

“Monthly Service Fee” means service fees paid by customers for the Services in a Service Cycle. For example, if the customer pays the service fee of several months at a time, the Monthly Service Fee is calculated as the total service fees paid divided by the total number of month.

2. Service Credit

Service Credit: In the event Huawei Cloud does not meet the commitment on the Service Availability Rate specified in this SLA, you will be eligible to receive service credit as described below, which is the sole and exclusive remedy for any performance or availability issues for any Services under the Customer Agreement and this SLA.

Time limit for application: you can apply for service credit in each Service Cycle after the bill are settled. The application must be filed within two (2) months after the end of the Service Cycle in which the incident that’s the subject of the claim occurred. Applications beyond the time limit will not be accepted. Huawei Cloud will make a reasonable assessment of all information provided to us and make a good faith decision on whether the service credit is owned.

Application method: you can make a claim at Huawei Cloud user center, which is available at https://console-intl.huaweicloud.com/ticket/?region=ap-southeast-1&locale=en-us#/ticketindex/createIndex)

3. Disclaimers

This SLA does not apply to any performance and availability issues:

a. caused by force majeure;

b. that arise during the period when your Services are suspended or terminated according to the Customer Agreement;

c. caused by you or any third party;

d. caused by daily service maintenance;

e. that arise due to your failure to comply with the operation guidance of the Services;

f. caused by a serious problem of the network operator.

 

Video on Demand (VOD) Service Specific Terms

1. Definition

Service Cycle: A service cycle is a calendar month. Failed requests include: (1) Failed HTTP 5XX requests caused by VOD faults; (2) Subscribers' normal requests that fail to reach the VOD server. The following types of requests are not considered failed requests:

1) Playback errors are caused by video file exceptions;

2) Domain names are banned due to content violation or other causes;

3) Playback failed because signed URLs expire when URL validation is enabled;

4) Requests are restricted by VOD due to hacker attacks on applications;

5) Requests are incorrect or services are unavailable caused by reasonable upgrade, change, or suspension initiated by VOD.

Total Time of Service Cycle: The total number of minutes during each service cycle. Total time of service cycle = Total number of days in each service cycle x 24 hours x 60 minutes.

Service Downtime: The total amount of time when the service is unavailable during a service cycle, rounded up to the nearest month. Service downtime spanning multiple service cycles is only counted within the first service cycle.

Service Availability: The percentage of the time when a service is available in a service cycle.

Error rate in an interval of 5 minutes = Number of failed requests in 5 minutes/Total number of requests in 5 minutes x 100%.

Service Unavailability: In an interval of 5 minutes, there are more than 100 requests and the error rate calculated based on the data recorded in VOD logs is greater than 0.05% due to a fault with Huawei Cloud.

2. Disclaimers

VOD does not limit the traffic, bandwidth, transcoded output duration, or storage. You can expand the capacity based on service requirements. If the service volume is expected to increase sharply (as shown in the following metrics), you need to notify Huawei Cloud VOD by submitting a service ticket at least three working days in advance. Otherwise, the availability may be affected and no compensation can be obtained.

Metrics related to sudden service volume increase:

Bandwidth: The peak growth is expected to be greater than 10 Gbit/s, and the growth is expected to be concentrated in some regions or carriers.

Storage: The storage growth is expected to be greater than 10 TB.

Transcoding: The transcoded output duration is expected to increase by more than 10,000 minutes per day.

3. Service Availability

Service availability rate in each service cycle is represented by the following formula:

Service availability rate in each service cycle = (Total time of service cycle – Service downtime)/Total time of service cycle x 100%.

Service availability rate commitment:

Huawei Cloud will make all commercially and technically reasonable efforts to ensure a VOD service availability rate of at least 99.9% per service cycle.

4. Service Credit

If VOD fails to fulfill the preceding commitment, Huawei Cloud will provide you with service credit as shown in the following table.

Service Availability Rate

Service Credit

99% ≤ Service availability rate < 99.9%

10% of Monthly service fee

Service availability rate < 99%

25% of Monthly service fee

Last Updated: December 15, 2023