Compliance

Delivering from CDN nodes inside mainland China is a separate product and compliance decision, not just a checkbox on a global network map. Confirm current requirements with qualified local counsel and the selected service provider before launch; this page is technical guidance, not legal advice. Start with the delivery region Decide whether the requirement is: edge delivery from nodes inside mainland China; delivery from nearby locations outside the mainland, such as Hong Kong, Japan, or Singapore; or one global configuration that includes the mainland. These designs have different onboarding, performance, feature, contract, and regulatory consequences. For example, Alibaba Cloud’s current CDN documentation distinguishes mainland-only, global, and global-excluding-mainland acceleration regions. It requires an ICP filing for the first two and not for the third. See Alibaba Cloud’s acceleration-region documentation. ...

Synopsis Compliance and data residency requirements constrain routing, telemetry, log handling, encryption, and key custody in a multi-CDN deployment. Production verification must show that those controls maintain the required data location and processing boundaries during normal operation and failover. Scope and regulatory context Compliance spans content delivery, control planes, logs, real user measurement, and provider support systems. Obligations arise from privacy laws, sector rules, contracts, and customer commitments. Multi-CDN introduces additional processors and network paths. Architecture and operations must express where data is processed, where it is stored, who accesses it, and how long it is retained. The model treats providers as processors under documented agreements and keeps data flows narrowly defined. ...