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What Is VPC Endpoint?

VPC Endpoint is a cloud service that provides secure and private channels to connect your VPCs to VPC endpoint services, including cloud services or your private services. It allows you to plan networks flexibly without having to use EIPs.

Architecture

There are two types of resources: VPC endpoint services and VPC endpoints.

  • VPC endpoint services are cloud services or private services that you manually configure in VPC Endpoint. You can access these endpoint services using VPC endpoints.

    For more information, see VPC Endpoint Services.

  • VPC endpoints are secure and private channels for connecting VPCs to VPC endpoint services.

    For more information, see VPC Endpoints.

Figure 1 How VPC Endpoint works

Figure 1 shows the process of establishing channels for network communications between:

  • VPC 1 (ECS 1) and VPC 3 (ECS 3)
  • VPC 2 (ECS 2) and cloud services such as OBS and DNS
  • IDC and VPC 2 over VPN or Direct Connect to finally access a cloud service such as OBS or DNS

For more information, see Application Scenarios.

Accessing VPC Endpoint

A web-based console and HTTPS APIs are provided for you to access VPC Endpoint.

  • Web-based console

    You can access VPC Endpoint using the web-based console.

    Upon a quick configuration on the management console, you can start using VPC Endpoint.

  • APIs

    Use this method if you need to integrate VPC Endpoint into a third-party system for secondary development. For details, see VPC Endpoint API Reference.

Parent topic: Service Overview