Basic Concepts

HomeZones

HomeZones is the Huawei Cloud edge AZ where IEC is deployed. Infrastructure cloud services such as multi-architecture compute, storage, and network can be provided closer to you. Yo can flexibly deploy your workloads at the nearest edge sites to reduce network latency and costs.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows you to provision logically isolated virtual private networks for cloud resources, such as cloud servers, containers, and databases. You can create subnets, security groups, network ACLs, route tables, and more to manage cloud resources flexibly. You can also use EIPs to connect cloud resources in VPCs to the Internet, and use Direct Connect and VPN to connect on-premises data centers to VPCs to build a hybrid cloud network. You can create a VPC across a central AZ and a HomeZones to enable edge-cloud communication within the VPC.

Edge Gateway

An edge gateway can connect subnets in the same VPC that is used in both HomeZones and central AZs of the central cloud. You need to buy an edge gateway to transmit data plane data across HomeZones and central AZs.

Network Border Group

A public border group is the only group that Huawei Cloud advertises public IP address pools and subnets. Once assigned, IP addresses cannot be moved between different network border groups. Multiple HomeZones in the same region or city are usually in the same network border group and share the same subnet. Gateway instances that belong to the same network border group can provide multi-AZ disaster recovery.