VPC Endpoints

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

You can buy a VPC endpoint to connect a resource in your VPC to a VPC endpoint service in another VPC of the same region.

A VPC endpoint comes with a VPC endpoint service. VPC endpoints vary depending on the type of the VPC endpoint services that they can access.

VPC endpoints come with two types: interface and gateway, depending on the kind of VPC endpoint service they connect to.

Interface VPC endpoints: They are used to access interface VPC endpoint services and are elastic network interfaces that have private IP addresses.
There are professional and basic VPC endpoints. Different editions have different features:
- Professional: This newly released VPC endpoint type is available in the CN East2, ME-Riyadh, CN East-Qingdao, and AF-Cairo regions. A VPC endpoint supports up to 10 Gbit/s of bandwidth and IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack.
- Basic: Basic VPC endpoints refer to previous VPC endpoints.
Gateway VPC endpoints: They are used to access gateway VPC endpoint services and serve as gateways with routes configured to distribute traffic to the associated gateway VPC endpoint services.

OBS can be configured as a gateway VPC endpoint service on the VPC Endpoint console only in the LA-Mexico City1, LA-Sao Paulo1, and LA-Santiago regions. Therefore, this use case is applicable only to these regions.

To access OBS as a gateway VPC endpoint service in other regions, you need to search for it by name. To obtain its name, submit a service ticket or contact the OBS O&M engineers.