Autonomous system
AS55990 HWCSNET Huawei Cloud Service data center
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Huawei Cloud
cloud hosting compute
An Autonomous System operated by Huawei, used for Huawei Cloud (HUAWEI CLOUDS) public-cloud infrastructure. HWCLOUDS
What it's used for
- Hosting cloud compute, storage, and networking for Huawei Cloud customers across its global regions.
Notable
- An IP here identifies Huawei Cloud as the host, not the operator of what runs on it.
- Huawei announces cloud prefixes from more than one ASN; see the sibling AS58519.
Interesting
- Huawei Cloud is one of the largest public clouds in China and a significant competitor to Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud in Asia-Pacific.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
14 upstream, 0 downstream and 22 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4811 | China Telecom (Group) | 7,247 |
| AS23724 | IDC, China Telecommunications Corporation | 5,952 |
| AS58466 | CHINANET Guangdong province network | 3,438 |
| AS4808 | China Unicom Beijing Province Network | 2,171 |
| AS139203 | Guizhou GuiAn IDC | 1,749 |
| AS138421 | China Unicom | 1,294 |
| AS136958 | China Unicom Guangdong IP network | 999 |
| AS134542 | China Unicom IP network | 474 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 191 prefixes · 1.61M addresses IPv6 51 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CN | China | 242 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS55990- Registry name
- HWCSNET
- Abuse contact
- ipas@cnnic.cn
- Registered
- 2012-10-09
- Last changed
- 2021-06-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 386 valid, 26 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 394 authorising AS55990
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 387 of 414 announcements
- Route objects
- 617 naming AS55990
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
2 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
123.60.61.104 | Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data | 2026-10-08 |
122.112.169.163 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere