I get those mainland China regions are via your partners, and have a separate portal/account, etc. But why does creating a AWS China account require an ICP? I have no intention of serving/hosting content from there, I'm just looking for in-country compute. (To be fair, other US-based cloud providers like Azure have the same ICP-to-even-create-account requirement to access mainland China locations).
What is strange is I am able to use Alibaba Cloud, and spin up mainland China instances but didn't need an ICP as part of the account creation process. Why the difference with AWS China?
I did an Ask HN about experience with AWS China and got no bites...
I get those mainland China regions are via your partners, and have a separate portal/account, etc. But why does creating a AWS China account require an ICP? I have no intention of serving/hosting content from there, I'm just looking for in-country compute. (To be fair, other US-based cloud providers like Azure have the same ICP-to-even-create-account requirement to access mainland China locations).
What is strange is I am able to use Alibaba Cloud, and spin up mainland China instances but didn't need an ICP as part of the account creation process. Why the difference with AWS China?
I did an Ask HN about experience with AWS China and got no bites...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522491
Any insights are super appreciated. Thank you in advance.