After a cloud box is activated, the cloud box corresponds to a zone. Cloud boxes are deployed in your specified locations and not in the data centers of Alibaba Cloud. In this case, you must associate your cloud boxes with an Alibaba Cloud region. This way, your cloud boxes can communicate with each other in multiple zones of the same Alibaba Cloud region over an internal network. To increase your access speed, we recommend that you associate your cloud boxes with the closest region.
Usage notes
After you associate a cloud box with a region, you cannot change the region.
Cloud boxes that reside in different regions cannot communicate with each other over an internal network.
Associated regions
The following table describes the regions that can be associated with cloud boxes and the region IDs.
If you need to associate your cloud boxes with a region that is not mentioned in the table, please contact your Account Manager.
Region | Region ID |
China (Hangzhou) | cn-hangzhou |
China (Shanghai) | cn-shanghai |
China (Qingdao) | cn-qingdao |
China (Beijing) | cn-beijing |
China (Shenzhen) | cn-shenzhen |
China (Heyuan) | cn-heyuan |
China (Chengdu) | cn-chengdu |
China (Hong Kong) | cn-hongkong |