Security New Features in June & July 2025

This article summarizes enhanced cloud security capabilities across multiple regions and services in June and July 2025.

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Anti-DDoS

Feature: Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland) Supports Cross-border Protection (July 30, 2025)
- Customer Value: This is suitable for customers whose users are in the Chinese mainland, whose origin servers reside outside the Chinese mainland, and who require cross-border acceleration and DDoS mitigation. The main target verticals are cross-border finance, Web3, Chinese enterprises going global, gaming, partners, and other business areas.
- Please refer to official document for more details.

Feature：Releases Bot Management V2.0 and Supports Smooth Migration from V1.0 to V2.0 for Existing Users (Aug 01, 2025)
- Customer Value：To address the increasingly complex bot attack threats, Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) has officially launched a new version of its Bot Management solution. This upgrade achieves architectural innovations, delivering significant leaps in protection depth, detection accuracy, and operational efficiency.
- Please refer to official document for more details.

Feature：Security Center Supports Importing GCP Assets (July 03, 2025)
- Customer Value: By configuring a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service Access Key in the Alibaba Cloud Security Center, you can automatically synchronize GCP host assets to the Alibaba Cloud security protection system for unified multi-cloud security management.
- Please refer to official document for more details.

Feature: VPC Firewall and NAT Firewall Are Available in the Japan (Tokyo) Region (July 29, 2025)
- Customer Value: Cloud Firewall now can support customers from Japan Region for East-West traffic protection and NAT Gateway traffic protection.
- Please refer to official document for more details.

Feature: Data Security Center Now Available in the Philippines (Manila) (July 3, 2025)
- Customer Value: Customers could leverage our comprehensive data security capabilities in Philippines (Manila) region.
- Please refer to official document for more details.
Feature: Indonesia (Jakarta)-Specific Identification Template is Supported (July 14,2025)
- Customer Value: An Indonesia (Jakarta)-specific identification template is provided for you to quickly scan sensitive data distribution.
- Please refer to official document for more details.

Feature: Key Management Service is General Available in South Korea (Seoul) region, and Thailand (Bangkok) region support Key Management Service from single AZ to two AZs. (July 23, 2025)
- Customer Value: Customers could leverage KMS in South Korea (Seoul) region and Thailand (Bangkok) region to provide full life cycle service for key management.
- Please refer to our official document for more details.