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Alibaba Cloud DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Alibaba Cloud DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Alibaba Cloud. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- RAM user AccessKey
- Permissions
- AliyunDNSReadOnlyAccess for the preview, AliyunDNSFullAccess (or a custom alidns:* write policy) to apply.
What Alibaba Cloud supports
The same data the translation engine uses when it plans a migration.
- Create zones through the API
- List zones through the API
- Turn on DNSSEC through the API
- Apex CNAME (flattening)
- Apex ALIAS record
- Aliases to cloud resources
- CDN proxy on records
- Routing policies
- Minimum TTL
- 600s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- CAA
- HTTPS
- SVCB
- TLSA
Good to know
- Free and Personal editions have a minimum TTL of 600 seconds; only Enterprise Ultimate allows TTLs down to 1 second.
- TXT values are limited to 512 characters and MX priorities must be 50 or lower.
- ALIAS records and DNSSEC are only available on paid editions.