Before you use the rules engine in IoT Platform to forward device data to another Alibaba Cloud service, make sure that the destination Alibaba Cloud service is available in the specified region and supports the format of the forwarded data. This topic describes the destination Alibaba Cloud services that are available in different regions.
Background information
By default, the public instances of IoT Platform are available in the following regions: China (Shanghai), Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), and Germany (Frankfurt). The Enterprise Edition instances of IoT Platform are available only in the Japan (Tokyo) region.
- For regions in which Enterprise Edition instances are available, you can view a public instance and the Enterprise Edition instances that you purchased on the Overview page in the IoT Platform console. You can click the card of the instance that you want to manage to go to the Instance Details page. The features of the instance are displayed on the page.
- For regions in which Enterprise Edition instances are unavailable, IoT Platform does not provide the Overview page. By default, the features of a public instance are displayed in the left-side navigation pane.
This topic describes the destination Alibaba Cloud services that are available in different regions when you use the old version of the data forwarding feature. For information about how to use the new version of the data forwarding feature, see Regions.
Public instances
The following tables describe the data forwarding destinations and data formats that are supported in each region.
- China (Shanghai)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary Message Service (MNS) Supported Supported Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ Supported Supported Function Compute Supported Not supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported - Japan (Tokyo)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Not supported Function Compute Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported - Singapore
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Supported Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ Supported Supported Function Compute Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported - US (Silicon Valley) and US (Virginia)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported - Germany (Frankfurt)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported
Enterprise Edition instances
Enterprise Edition instances of IoT Platform are available only in the Japan (Tokyo) region. The following tables describe the data forwarding destinations and data formats that are supported in each region.
- China (Shanghai)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Supported Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ Supported Supported Function Compute Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported Time Series Database (TSDB) Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported - Japan (Tokyo)
Data forwarding destination Data format JSON Binary MNS Supported Supported Message Queue for Apache RocketMQ Supported Supported Function Compute Supported Supported Tablestore Supported Not supported ApsaraDB RDS Supported Not supported