Scenarios supported by IPsec-VPN - VPN Gateway - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

You can use IPsec-VPN together with other Alibaba Cloud services to meet other business requirements. The following table lists the scenarios in which IPsec-VPN is used together with other services and provides links to the relevant references.

Note

Most of the following references are not included in the VPN Gateway documentation. After you click a link, you are redirected to the relevant service documentation.

Category	Alibaba Cloud service	References
Network connection	NAT Gateway	Use a VPC NAT gateway and a VPN gateway to connect a data center and a VPC
	Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN)	Connect a third-party SD-WAN appliance to a transit router to establish communication between data centers and VPCs
	Elastic Desktop Service (EDS)	Use IPsec-VPN to access a cloud computer from the Alibaba Cloud Workspace client over a private network
	EDS and Express Connect	Use Express Connect circuits and IPsec-VPN gateways to establish active/standby connections to access cloud computers over private networks
Network monitoring	Network Intelligence Service	Self-service diagnostics for IPsec-VPN connections
Network monitoring	CloudMonitor	Monitor system events of an IPsec-VPN connection
DNS services	Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone	Use Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone and VPN Gateway to allow ECS instances in a VPC to access an on-premises DNS
DNS services	Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone	Access Alibaba Cloud DNS from an on-premises network through a VPN Gateway
Databases	Database Backup (DBS)	Back up a self-managed database in an on-premises data center connected to Alibaba Cloud through VPN Gateway or Smart Access Gateway to OSS or DBS