Endpoints and Domain Names

Endpoint: OBS provides an endpoint for each region. An endpoint is a domain name to access OBS in a region and is used to process access requests of that region.

Endpoints vary depending on services and regions. The following table lists OBS endpoints.

**Table 1** OBS endpoints
Region Name	Region	Endpoint	Protocol
ME-Abu Dhabi-OP5	ae-ad-1	obs.ae-ad-1.g42cloud.com	HTTPS/HTTP

Bucket domain name: Each bucket in OBS has a domain name. A domain name is the address of a bucket and can be used to access the bucket over the Internet. It is applicable to cloud application development and data sharing.

An OBS bucket domain name is in the format of BucketName.Endpoint, where BucketName indicates the name of the bucket, and Endpoint indicates the domain name of the region where the bucket is located.

Table 2 lists the bucket domain name and other domain names in OBS, including their formats and protocols.

**Table 2** OBS domain names
Type	Structure	Description	Protocol
Regional domain name	Endpoint	Each region has an endpoint, which is the domain name of the region. For more information about OBS endpoints, see Table 1.	HTTPS HTTP
Bucket domain name	BucketName.Endpoint	After a bucket is created, you can use the domain name to access the bucket. You can compose the domain name according to the structure of bucket domain names, or you can obtain it from basic information of the bucket on OBS Console or OBS Browser+.	HTTPS HTTP
Object domain name	BucketName.Endpoint/ObjectName	After an object is uploaded to a bucket, you can use the object domain name to access the object. You can spell out the domain name according to the structure of object domain names, or you can obtain it from the object details on OBS Console or OBS Browser+.	HTTPS HTTP
Static website domain name	BucketName.obs-website.Endpoint	A static website domain name is a bucket domain name when the bucket is configured to host a static website.	HTTPS HTTP
User-defined domain name	Self-owned domain name registered with a domain name provider	You can bind a user domain name to a bucket so that you can access the bucket through the user domain name.	HTTP