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China cloud
Mainland China is not a region toggle. AWS China and Azure China run as separate clouds with their own accounts, partitions and compliance surface, while the local providers bring different strengths and different paperwork. These guides cover what actually differs, how to run an engineering plane across the border, and when direct connect beats public internet paths.
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Guide AWS China partition — what works vs global accounts
AWS China is a separate partition (Beijing / Ningxia), not a global region toggle. Product teams need a China account rail, catalog gap checks, and ICP adjacency before public go-live.
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Guide Azure China — 21Vianet partition vs global Azure
Azure operated by 21Vianet is a separate cloud partition inside Mainland China — not a global region toggle. Product teams need an OSPA rail, China endpoints, catalog gap checks, and ICP adjacency before public go-live.
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Insight AWS China vs Global: Partition Differences Measured Across 66 Services
We measured AWS China region differences with read-only APIs across Beijing, Ningxia, and us-east-1 — versions, features, quotas, and unit prices for 66 services. Most of the core is in sync; rate limits are not.
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