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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.
Alibaba Cloud API documentation

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.