IoT Platform allows you to purchase an Enterprise Edition instance for device access and business management.
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Sign in to the IoT Platform console.
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On the Instance Overview tab, in the Purchase Enterprise Edition Instance card, click Purchase Instance.
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On the instance purchase page, select an instance specification and complete the purchase.
In this example, set Region to China (Shenzhen), Edition Type to Alibaba Cloud Enterprise Edition, and Type to Standard. Configure the other parameters as needed.
After the purchase is complete, the system assigns a default name to the instance.
For more information, see Purchase an Enterprise Edition instance.
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On the Instance Overview page, click the purchased instance to open the Instance Details page and view its specifications.
The Instance Details page displays Basic Instance Information (including the Instance ID, Alias, Type/Environment, Expiration Time, and Resource Group ID, which you can modify by clicking Edit), Device Count usage (which supports scaling up), and Real-time Operational Data (which includes four tabs: Connection and Communication, Data Service, Time Series Storage, and OTA Update). In the upper-right corner of the page, you can click View Development Configuration to obtain the information required for development.
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Click View Development Configurations in the upper-right corner of the page to view information for the current instance, such as MQTT device access, AMQP server-side subscriptions, and cloud API calls.
The Endpoint section of the Development Configurations dialog box contains five tabs: MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, AMQP, and Cloud API. On the MQTT tab, the MQTT Device Access section provides domain names for both public network access and VPC network access, in the format
{instance-prefix}.iothub.aliyuncs.com. Click Copy to copy the address. Public network access also supports binding a static IP.