Creating a Cloud Connection

Scenarios

You need a cloud connection to connect the VPCs that you want to access.

For details about the regions where cloud connections are available, see Region Availability.

Procedure

1. Go to the Cloud Connections page.
2. In the upper right corner of the page, click Create Cloud Connection.
3. Configure the parameters based on Table 1.

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a cloud connection

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Specifies the cloud connection name.
   Enterprise Project	Specifies the enterprise project for managing the cloud connection. An enterprise project facilitates project-level management and grouping of cloud resources and users. The name of the default project is default. For details about creating and managing enterprise projects, see the Enterprise Management User Guide.
   Scenario	Specifies whether the cloud connection is used to connect VPCs or enterprise routers. If you select VPC here, only VPCs or virtual gateways can use this cloud connection.
   Tag	Identifies the cloud connection. A tag consists of a key and a value. You can add 20 tags to a cloud connection. The tag key and value must meet the requirements listed in Table 2. NOTE: If you have configured tag policies for Cloud Connect, add tags to cloud connections based on the tag policies. If you add a tag that does not comply with the tag policies, cloud connections may fail to be created. Contact your administrator to learn more about tag policies.
   Description	(Optional) Provides supplementary information about the cloud connection. The description can contain no more than 255 characters and cannot contain angle brackets (<>).

   Table 2 Tag naming requirements

   Parameter	Requirements
   Tag key	For each resource, each tag key must be unique, and each tag key can only have one tag value. Cannot be left blank. Can contain no more than 128 characters. Can contain letters in any language, digits, spaces, underscores (_), periods (.), colons (:), equal signs (=), plus signs (+), minus signs (-), and at signs (@). Cannot start with _sys_ or a space or end with a space.
   Tag value	Can be left blank. Can contain no more than 255 characters. Can contain letters in any language, digits, spaces, underscores (_), periods (.), colons (:), slashes (/), equal signs (=), plus signs (+), minus signs (-), and at signs (@). Cannot start or end with a space.

4. Click OK.