Before You Start

Huawei Cloud provides multiple security solutions to defend against DDoS attacks. You can select an appropriate one based on your service requirements. Huawei Cloud Anti-DDoS Service provides three sub-services: Cloud Native Anti-DDoS Basic, Cloud Native Anti-DDoS Advanced, and Advanced Anti-DDoS.

This document describes how to make application programming interface (API) calls to use the AAD, such as querying or updating Anti-DDoS defense policies. For details about all supported operations, see API Overview.

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 Anti-DDoS Endpoints and AAD 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 in IAM 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 management console. The domain 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 isolation model
Enterprise Project
Enterprise projects group and logically isolate resources. An enterprise project can contain resources of multiple regions, and resources can be added to or removed from the enterprise project.