Impact time
November 17, 2025, 00:00:00 UTC+8
Products affected
Alibaba Cloud DNS Private Zone
Effective time
Date | Impact |
April 30, 2025 (UTC+8) | New users create accelerated zones by default |
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 zone.
What's changing
April 30, 2025 (UTC+8): New Private Zone users can create accelerated zones only. Domain type no longer affects zone creation.
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, and deliver improved performance. Note that using accelerated zones may increase DNS query volume and associated costs. To avoid extra queries caused by 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.
Contact customer support or submit a ticket in the console if you have questions.