September Alibaba Cloud Network Upgrade Notice

[Alibaba Cloud] [Network] [Upgrade Notice]
Summary of change: In order to continuously improve network quality, Alibaba Cloud will optimize and upgrade the network in some regions. Regions will be upgraded one-by-one. During the upgrade, the network may experience several seconds of network jitter and packet loss. Please make sure your applications include a reconnection mechanism to ensure fault tolerance.
Impact of change: The upgrade time and impact on each region during the change are as follows:

Beijing time, September 13, 2018
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 12), China East 1 (Hangzhou) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience 2 times of intermittent packet loss, each time will be less than 30 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 12), China North 3 (Zhangjiakou) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience intermittent packet loss for no more than 5 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.

Beijing time, September 17, 2018
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 16), China North 1 (Beijing) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience intermittent packet loss for no more than 5 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 16), China North 3 (Zhangjiakou) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience intermittent packet loss for no more than 5 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 16), China South 1 (Shenzhen) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience intermittent packet loss for no more than 5 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.
03:00 - 06:30 (PST 11:00 - 14:30 on September 16), US West 1 (Silicon Valley) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience intermittent packet loss for no more than 5 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.

Beijing time, September 26, 2018
09:00 - 12:00 (PST 17:00 - 20:00 on September 25), Central Europe 1 (Frankfurt) region. Impact: Under normal circumstances, there will be no impact. In extreme cases, when users access the cloud resources in this area, they may experience 2 times of intermittent packet loss, each time will be less than 30 seconds. It can be restored to normal by application reconnection.

We will be closely monitoring the upgrade. If you encounter any issues, please contact us by submitting a ticket.

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