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title: "Can you tell me more about Acquia DAM (Widen)'s cloud architecture?"
date: "2023-10-19T18:09:48+00:00"
summary: "Explore Acquia DAM's robust cloud architecture powered by AWS. Learn about the key services utilized, including CloudFront, EC2, and S3, to deliver high-performance digital asset management. Understand potential performance considerations for users in China."
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Our cloud architecture includes the following Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure as a service capacity:

*   [CloudFront](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/)
*   [CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/)
*   [Elastic Block Store](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/) (EBS)
*   [Elastic Compute Cloud](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) (EC2)
*   [Identity and Access Management](https://aws.amazon.com/iam/) (IAM)
*   [Relational Database Service](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/) (RDS)
*   [Simple Email Service](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/) (SES)
*   [Simple Queue Service](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/) (SQS)
*   [Simple Storage Service](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) (S3)
*   [Virtual Private Cloud](https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/) (VPC)

The [AWS region map](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/#reglink-na) shows the worldwide infrastructure.  
 

Acquia DAM performance in China 
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The Chinese government has a firewall in place around web activity. The firewall affects any incoming or outgoing requests online in China. We do not make use of AWS services in mainland China so any content served goes through the firewall.

It’s hard to predict how the firewall will affect each website. For this reason, we can’t guarantee our regular site performance in China. We don’t offer functionality that might be used to circumvent the firewall, such as VPN or static IP.