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Notice on API throttling of Alibaba Cloud DNS

Involved services

Alibaba Cloud DNS, Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone

Effective time

Since 24:00:00 (UTC +8) on January 15, 2025

Notification content

To ensure stable and secure operation, Alibaba Cloud DNS and Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone will adopt intelligent API throttling measures on DNS requests. This prevents service instability caused by excessive queries per second (QPS).

If the error code Throttling.User or Throttling is returned when you call the API operation of Alibaba Cloud DNS or Alibaba Cloud DNS Privatezone, the throttling may be triggered. Then, call the API operation again.