Impact time
November 17, 2025, 00:00:00 UTC+8
Products affected
Alibaba Cloud DNS Private Zone
Effective time
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Date |
Impact |
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April 30, 2025 (UTC+8) |
New users create accelerated zones by default |
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November 17, 2025 (UTC+8) |
All users can create only accelerated zones |
Notice details
To improve product experience and service reliability, Alibaba Cloud is simplifying the built-in authoritative service architecture for Private Zone and will gradually discontinue standard zones.
What's changing
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April 30, 2025 (UTC+8): New Private Zone users can create accelerated zones only. Domain type no longer affects zone creation.
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November 17, 2025 (UTC+8): All Private Zone users can create accelerated zones only.
Accelerated zones support split-view DNS resolution, load balancing, and real-time DNS changes with improved performance. However, accelerated zones may increase DNS query volume and associated costs. To avoid extra queries from missing local DNS cache on ECS instances, enable NSCD on your ECS instances.
What stays the same
This upgrade does not automatically migrate existing standard zones to accelerated zones. If you manually upgrade a standard zone to an accelerated zone, you cannot revert it to a standard zone.
If you have questions, contact customer support or submit a ticket in the console.