Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Endpoints and ARNs for Amazon Web Services China

To access Amazon services and resources, you use endpoints and Amazon Resource Names (ARNs).

Endpoints

To connect programmatically to an Amazon Web Services China, you use an endpoint. An endpoint is the URL of the entry point for an Amazon service. For example, dynamodb.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn is the endpoint for the Amazon DynamoDB service in the China (Beijing) Region, and dynamodb.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn is the endpoint for Amazon DynamoDB in the China (Ningxia) Region. The Amazon SDKs and the Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI) automatically use the default endpoint for each service in an Amazon Region. But you can specify another endpoint for your API requests.

The endpoints reference for services has moved to Endpoints for Amazon Web Services China in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)

Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) uniquely identify Amazon resources. You use an ARN to specify a resource across all of Amazon Web Services, such as in Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) tags, and API calls.

For information about ARNs in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions, see ARNs for Amazon Web Services in China.

For general information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.