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Drive and Photo Service:Get started with PDS

Last Updated:May 09, 2025

With Drive and Photo Service PDS, you can quickly build an open platform for enterprise and personal data management, content detection, and collaboration.

Prerequisites

Procedure

Step 1: Create a domain

Note

Currently, each account can create up to 3 domains in the same region. Creating a domain will incur user-related fees.

Create through the PDS console

  1. Log on to the Drive And Photo Service PDS product console.

  2. In the upper-left corner of the interface, select the region where you created the domain.

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  3. Go to Drive And Photo Service (Developer Edition) > Domain List.

  4. Click Create Domain, and fill in your domain information on the create domain interface.

    Field

    Required or not

    Description

    Name

    Yes

    The domain name. It can be modified after setting.

    Description

    No

    The domain description.

    User Personal Space

    Yes

    When enabled, users will have a default personal space upon their first login. The size of this space can be modified in the Management Console.

    Default Personal Space Size

    Required when User Personal Space is enabled.

    Options include Custom Size and Unlimited Size.

    Custom Size

    Required when Custom Size is selected.

    Available units include TB, GB, and MB.

  5. Click OK.

Create through API operations

  1. Authentication

    PDS authentication has two methods: AccessToken or Alibaba Cloud AccessKey signature.

  2. Create by calling Create Domain.

Step 2: Manage PDS service

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