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Anti-DDoS:DescribeIpLocationService

Last Updated:Jul 10, 2025

Queries the region to which the public IP address of the asset within the current Alibaba Cloud account belongs. The asset can be an elastic IP address (EIP). The asset can also be an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance or Server Load Balancer (SLB) instance that is assigned a public IP address.

Operation description

You can call the DescribeIpLocationService operation to query the region of the public IP address for a specified asset that is within the current Alibaba Cloud account. You can also query the details of the Anti-DDoS Origin instance to which the asset is added. The details include the ID and name.

Limits

You can call this operation up to 10 times per second per account. If the number of the calls per second exceeds the limit, throttling is triggered. As a result, your business may be affected. We recommend that you take note of the limit when you call this operation.

Debugging

You can run this interface directly in OpenAPI Explorer, saving you the trouble of calculating signatures. After running successfully, OpenAPI Explorer can automatically generate SDK code samples.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
yundun-ddos:DescribeIpLocationServiceget
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
InternetIpstringYes

The IP address of the asset to query.

121.199.XX.XX

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The response parameters.

RequestIdstring

The ID of the request, which is used to locate and troubleshoot issues.

C728D7E9-9A39-52E0-966B-5C33118BDBB0
Instanceobject

The details of the asset.

InstanceIdstring

The ID of the instance.

i-bp1cb6x80tfgocid****
InstanceNamestring

The name of the instance.

launch-advisor-2021****
InternetIpstring

The IP address of the asset.

121.199.XX.XX
InstanceTypestring

The type of the asset. Valid values:

  • ecs: an ECS instance.
  • slb: an SLB instance.
  • eip: an EIP.
  • ipv6: an IPv6 gateway.
  • swas: a simple application server.
  • waf: a Web Application Firewall (WAF) instance of the Exclusive edition.
  • ga_basic: a Global Accelerator (GA) instance.
ecs
Regionstring

The region to which the public IP address of the asset belongs.

cn-hangzhou

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "C728D7E9-9A39-52E0-966B-5C33118BDBB0",
  "Instance": {
    "InstanceId": "i-bp1cb6x80tfgocid****",
    "InstanceName": "launch-advisor-2021****",
    "InternetIp": "121.199.XX.XX",
    "InstanceType": "ecs",
    "Region": "cn-hangzhou"
  }
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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