Concepts

A domain is created upon successful registration. The domain has full access permissions for all of its cloud services and resources. It can be used to reset user passwords and grant user permissions. The account is a payment entity and should not be used to perform routine management. For security purposes, create IAM users and grant them permissions for routine management.

An IAM user is created using an account to use cloud services. Each IAM user has its own identity credentials (password and access keys).

An IAM user can view the account ID and user ID on the My Credentials page of the console. The domain name, username, and password will be required for API authentication.

A region is a physical location where cloud resources are deployed. Availability zones (AZs) in the same region can communicate with each other over an intranet but AZs in different regions cannot communicate with each other. For low network latency and quick resource access, select the nearest region. The choice of regions may also be subject to legal compliance requirements.

An AZ is one or more physical data centers within a region. It has independent cooling, fire extinguishing, moisture-proof, and electricity facilities. Within an AZ, compute, networking, storage, and other resources are logically divided into multiple clusters. AZs within a region are connected using high-speed optical fibers for high availability.

Projects group and isolate resources (including compute, storage, and network resources) across physical regions. A default project is provided for each region, and subprojects can be created under each default project. Users can be granted permissions to access all resources in a specific project. For more refined access control, create subprojects under a project and purchase resources in the subprojects. Users can then be assigned permissions to access only specific resources in the subprojects.

Figure 1 Project isolating model