Overview

Scenario Introduction

An enterprise runs basic services on Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs), but storage capacity of hard disks becomes insufficient for storing a large number of images and videos. After learning that HUAWEI CLOUD provides OBS, an elastic cloud storage service for massive amounts of data, the enterprise determined to use OBS as the data storage resource pool to reduce the burden on local servers.

From ECSs, you can access OBS over the internet or HUAWEI CLOUD intranet. However, for access over the internet, the network response speed is subject to the network conditions, and you need to pay for data access over the internet. To maximize performance and reduce costs, enterprise administrators want to access OBS over the intranet.

When accessing OBS over the intranet, ensure that the OBS resources to be accessed are in the region where the ECS resides. If the OBS resources reside in a different region, access is supported only over the Internet.

Solution

Configure intranet DNS on the established ECS. The intranet DNS resolves the OBS domain name so that the ECS can access OBS through the intranet. Figure 1 shows the access process.

Figure 1 Accessing OBS through the intranet

Table 1 describes the services in the figure.

• For Windows ECSs, you are advised to use OBS Browser+ to access OBS over intranet. For details, see:

  Accessing OBS over Intranet by Using OBS Browser+ on a Windows ECS

• For Linux ECSs, you are advised to use obsutil to access OBS over intranet. For details, see:

  Accessing OBS over Intranet by Using obsutil on a Linux ECS

When accessing OBS through the intranet from your ECSs, you can read, back up, and archive data without affecting the internet bandwidth.