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    CloudFlow:Normal integration

    Last Updated:Sep 10, 2026

    A normal integration lets CloudFlow directly call the service APIs of cloud products through Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI without any special processing or optimization. This enables CloudFlow to orchestrate business processes by calling APIs from various Alibaba Cloud services, including elastic computing, storage, databases, containers, big data processing, observability services, and middleware. This topic describes the procedure for a normal integration and lists the supported services.

    Procedure

    This topic uses the DescribeInstances API of Elastic Compute Service as an example. The steps are as follows.

    1. Log on to the CloudFlow console. In the top navigation bar, select a region.

    2. On the Workflows page, click Create Workflow.

    3. In the Create Workflow dialog box, select Use Blank Canvas, select a Workflow mode, set the Workflow Name and Description, and then click Create.

    4. On the Workflow Studio designer page, click CloudFlow Studio to set the Execution Timeout, and then click Workflow Configuration to set the execution role.

      Note

      If you have already created a RAM role, you can select the existing role.

      If this is your first time using CloudFlow, click Create Role to create and authorize a role. For more information, see Create an execution role.

    5. In the task browser area of the Workflow Studio designer, find the target API on the Actions tab and drag it to the flowchart. Then, in the configuration panel on the right, configure Basic Settings, Input Settings, Output Settings, and Error Handling.

      For more information about these parameters, see Procedure.

      You can also click YAML in the upper-right corner to switch to the YAML script editor and specify the API to call. The following code provides an example.

      Type: StateMachine
Name: test
SpecVersion: v1
Timeout: 600
StartAt: DescribeInstances
States:
  - Type: Task
    Name: DescribeInstances
    Action: ECS:DescribeInstances
    TaskMode: RequestComplete
    Parameters:
      RegionId: cn-hangzhou
      VpcId: vpc-bp11y195luy47h8****
      VSwitchId: vsw-bp1wb297ekw7xyh****
    End: true

      The fields are described as follows:

      • Action: The API operation to call. This example uses ECS:DescribeInstances, which queries the details of one or more ECS instances. You must grant the AliyunECSReadOnlyAccess permission to the execution role for the workflow.

      • TaskMode: The integration mode. For more information, see Integration modes.

      • Parameters: The parameters to pass to the integrated service. The available parameters depend on the target API operation.

    6. In the upper-right corner, click Execute. In the Execute Workflow panel, enter the Execution Name and Execution Input, and then click OK.

      After a successful execution, you can view event details on the execution details page.

    Supported services

    CloudFlow integrates with the APIs of most Alibaba Cloud products. The following table lists the supported products.

    Product category

    Product name

    elastic computing

    Function Compute

    CloudFlow

    ECS

    Container Registry

    Distributed Cloud Container Platform

    Elastic Container Instance

    Serverless App Engine

    Web App Service

    Elastic Desktop Service

    Container Service for Kubernetes

    WUYING Cloud Phone

    Auto Scaling

    Elastic Accelerated Computing Instances

    Server Migration Center

    Resource Orchestration Service

    Operation Orchestration Service

    Internet Middleware

    EventBridge

    ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ 5.0

    SchedulerX

    Application High Availability Service

    ApsaraMQ for MQTT

    Service Mesh

    Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS)

    ApsaraMQ for RabbitMQ

    Storage and CDN

    Alibaba Cloud CDN

    Object Storage Service

    Dynamic Content Delivery Network

    Elastic Block Storage

    Database File System

    Apsara File Storage for HDFS

    Apsara File Storage (NAS/CPFS)

    Intelligent Media Management

    Cloud Backup

    Hybrid Disaster Recovery

    Edge Node Service

    Monitoring and Management

    ActionTrail

    Cloud Governance Center

    Key Management Service

    Service Catalog

    Operations Incident Center

    Quota Center

    Application Services

    API Gateway

    CloudESL

    Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone

    Security Office Platform

    Blockchain as a Service

    Intelligent Vehicle Management

    Intelligent Dual Recording and Inspection

    Smart Conversation Analysis

    Voice Navigator

    Energy Expert

    Financial Distributed Architecture (SOFAStack)

    Databases

    ApsaraDB for MongoDB

    RDS Data API

    AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL

    ApsaraDB for ClickHouse

    ApsaraDB for HBase

    ApsaraDB for OceanBase

    ApsaraDB RDS

    Tair (Redis OSS-compatible)

    ApsaraDB for Cassandra

    ApsaraDB MyBase

    AnalyticDB for MySQL

    Data Disaster Recovery

    AnalyticDB for MySQL

    Extensions

    HTTP

    Terraform

    Cloud Gaming

    Cloud Rendering

    Cloud Communications

    ChatApp Message Service

    Phone Number Identity Verification

    Intelligent Contact Center

    Direct Mail

    Artificial Intelligence

    Natural Language Processing Self-Learning Platform

    eKYC

    Optimization Solver

    Image Search

    Address Purification

    Document Self-Learning

    Intelligent Visual Production

    Open Platform for Digital Human

    Vision AI Platform - Face and Body

    Vision AI Platform - Image Segmentation

    Vision AI Platform - Product Understanding

    Vision AI Platform - Image Production

    Vision AI Platform - Image Recognition

    Vision AI Platform - Text Recognition

    Vision AI Platform - Object Detection

    Image Search

    Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

    Domains and Websites

    Enterprise Services

    Big Data Search and Analysis

    Simple Log Service

    Big Data Computing

    Cloud-Native Big Data Computing Service

    Big Data (Data Platform)

    Data Lake Analytics

    Elasticsearch

    Quick BI

    Hologres

    Data Lake Formation

    Storage Services

    PDS

    Security

    Anti-DDoS

    Anti-DDoS Origin

    Cloud Firewall

    Bastionhost

    Threat Intelligence

    Anti-DDoS Pro

    Captcha

    Developer Platform

    Cloud Quick Build

    Support and Services

    Cloud Control API

    Support Plan

    Tag

    Cloud SSO

    Alibaba Cloud Tickets

    Network

    VPC

    Cloud Enterprise Network

    Anycast Elastic IP

    Global Accelerator

    Application Load Balancer

    PrivateLink

    Network Load Balancer

    Network Intelligence Service

    Video Services

    ApsaraVideo for Media Processing

    Vision Edge Computing

    Visual Compute Service

    ApsaraVideo VOD

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