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Before You Start

Overview

Database Security Service (DBSS) is an intelligent database security service powered by the big data analytics technologies. It can audit your databases, detect SQL injection attacks, and identify high-risk operations.

This document describes how to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to create, query, and delete instance and rules. For details about all supported operations, see API.

Before calling DBSS APIs, ensure that you have understood the concepts related to DBSS. For more information, see Service Overview.

API Calling

DBSS supports Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, allowing you to call APIs using HTTPS. For details about API calling, see Calling APIs.

Endpoints

An endpoint is the request address for calling an API. Endpoints vary depending on services and regions. For the endpoints of all services, see Regions and Endpoints.

Concepts

  • Account

    An account is created upon successful registration. The account 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.

  • User

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

    The account name, username, and password will be required for API authentication.

  • Region

    Regions are divided based on geographical location and network latency. Public services, such as Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Elastic Volume Service (EVS), Object Storage Service (OBS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic IP (EIP), and Image Management Service (IMS), are shared within the same region. Regions are classified as universal regions and dedicated regions. A universal region provides universal cloud services for common tenants. A dedicated region provides services of the same type only or for specific tenants.

  • Availability Zone (AZ)

    An AZ comprises one or multiple physical data centers equipped with independent ventilation, fire, water, and electricity facilities. Compute, network, storage, and other resources in an AZ are logically divided into multiple clusters. AZs within a region are interconnected using high-speed optical fibers to support cross-AZ high-availability systems.

  • Project

    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 create resources in the subprojects. Users can then be assigned permissions to access only specific resources in the subprojects.

    Figure 1 Project isolating model