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VPN Gateway:DescribeCustomerGateways

Last Updated:Jun 19, 2026

Queries information about customer gateways.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

vpc:DescribeCustomerGateways

list

CustomerGateway

acs:vpc:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:customergateway/*

CustomerGateway

acs:vpc:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:customergateway/{#CustomerGatewayId}

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

RegionId

string

Yes

The region ID of the customer gateway.

You can call DescribeRegions to query region IDs.

cn-shanghai

CustomerGatewayId

string

No

The instance ID of the customer gateway.

Note

If you do not specify the instance ID of a customer gateway, the system queries information about all customer gateways in the current region by default.

cgw-bp1pvpl9r9adju6l5****

PageNumber

integer

No

The page number of the list. Default value: 1.

1

PageSize

integer

No

The number of entries per page in a paged query. Maximum value: 50. Default value: 10.

10

Tag

array<object>

No

The list of tags bound to the customer gateway.

object

No

The tag information.

Key

string

No

The tag key. If you specify this parameter, the value cannot be an empty string.

The tag key can be up to 64 characters in length and cannot start with aliyun or acs:. It cannot contain http:// or https://.

You can specify up to 20 tag keys at a time.

TagKey

Value

string

No

The tag value.

The tag value can be up to 128 characters in length and can be an empty string. It cannot start with aliyun or acs: and cannot contain http:// or https://.

Each tag key corresponds to one tag value. You can specify up to 20 tag values at a time.

TagValue

ResourceGroupId

string

No

The ID of the resource group to which the customer gateway belongs.

You can call ListResourceGroups to query resource group IDs.

rg-acfmzs372yg****

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The response parameters.

PageSize

integer

The number of entries per page in a paging query.

10

RequestId

string

The request ID.

E82612A9-CB90-4D7E-B394-1DB7F6509B29

PageNumber

integer

The page number of the list.

1

TotalCount

integer

The total number of entries in the list.

1

CustomerGateways

object

CustomerGateway

array<object>

The list of customer gateways.

array<object>

The information about the customer gateway.

IpAddress

string

The IP address of the gateway device in the data center.

139.32.XX.XX

Asn

integer

The autonomous system number (ASN) of the gateway device in the data center.

65530

Description

string

The description of the customer gateway.

desctest

CustomerGatewayId

string

The customer gateway ID.

cgw-bp1pvpl9r9adju6l5****

CreateTime

integer

The time when the customer gateway was created. Unit: millisecond.

This value is a UNIX timestamp representing the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.

1492747187000

Name

string

The name of the customer gateway.

nametest

AuthKey

string

The authentication key that is used to connect to the gateway device in the data center by using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

AuthKey****

Tags

object

Tag

array<object>

The tags that are added to the customer gateway.

object

Key

string

The key of the tag.

TagKey

Value

string

The value of the tag.

TagValue

ResourceGroupId

string

The ID of the resource group to which the customer gateway belongs.

You can call the ListResourceGroups operation to query resource groups.

rg-acfmzs372yg****

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "PageSize": 10,
  "RequestId": "E82612A9-CB90-4D7E-B394-1DB7F6509B29",
  "PageNumber": 1,
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "CustomerGateways": {
    "CustomerGateway": [
      {
        "IpAddress": "139.32.XX.XX",
        "Asn": 65530,
        "Description": "desctest",
        "CustomerGatewayId": "cgw-bp1pvpl9r9adju6l5****",
        "CreateTime": 1492747187000,
        "Name": "nametest",
        "AuthKey": "AuthKey****",
        "Tags": {
          "Tag": [
            {
              "Key": "TagKey",
              "Value": "TagValue"
            }
          ]
        },
        "ResourceGroupId": "rg-acfmzs372yg****"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 Forbidden.TagKey.Duplicated The specified tag key already exists. The tag resources are duplicate.
400 SizeLimitExceeded.TagNum The maximum number of tags is exceeded. The number of tags has reached the upper limit.
400 InvalidParameter.TagValue The specified parameter TagValue is invalid. The error message returned because the specified tag value is invalid.
400 InvalidParameter.TagKey The specified parameter TagKey is invalid. The error message returned because the specified tag key is invalid.
400 Duplicated.TagKey The specified parameter TagKey is duplicated. The error message returned because the specified tag key already exists.
403 Forbbiden.SubUser User not authorized to operate on the specified resource as your account is created by another user.
403 Forbidden User not authorized to operate on the specified resource. You do not have the permissions to manage the specified resource. Apply for the permissions and try again.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.