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Guztia AI Infra Ops

Guztia /Services /China & APAC

Since 2017

China & APAC Services

Business VPN, website acceleration, ICP filing, cross-border connectivity and Salesforce access from the mainland. The practice that built this company — still running, still sold, and now also the reason we can put inference on the correct side of a border.

01 The services

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Business VPN for China

Dedicated MPLS or IPSec lines with guaranteed bandwidth and a unique IP — not a shared consumer tunnel. Isolated resources, fast IP switching, monitored around the clock.

For: Teams that need reliable access to corporate systems, code hosts and model endpoints from inside the mainland.

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Website acceleration in China

Get a foreign-hosted site loading in seconds rather than tens of seconds for mainland visitors, through in-country CDN, routing and origin work.

For: Marketing sites, SaaS front-ends and documentation that mainland users currently abandon before first paint.

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ICP 备案 filing support

ICP filing and licence support — the prerequisite for hosting anything on mainland servers legally. We handle the paperwork loop with the provider and the MIIT.

For: Anyone who needs a mainland-hosted origin, which includes anyone who needs mainland-hosted inference.

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Cross-border connectivity

CEN, Express Connect, leased lines and VPC peering between mainland and global regions, with the compliance work that comes attached.

For: Multi-jurisdiction deployments where data has to move between mainland and global systems on a defined path.

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Salesforce in China

Making Salesforce usable for mainland-based teams — acceleration, routing and the integration work that makes the CRM stop timing out.

For: Sales organisations with mainland staff on a global Salesforce org.

02 Why it still matters

China is not another country. It is another internet.

Over ninety per cent of foreign websites are effectively unusable from the mainland — not blocked, just slow enough that people leave. Your CRM times out. Your docs do not load. Your CI cannot reach its registry. And now your product cannot reach the model it depends on.

None of that is solved by a consumer VPN or by moving a CDN origin. It is solved by in-country infrastructure, a filing, dedicated lines and someone who has done the paperwork loop before. We have been doing exactly that since 2017.

Load time
Foreign-hosted sites commonly take 20–50s from the mainland. Users leave at 3.
ICP filing
Legally required before anything serves from mainland servers. No filing, no hosting, no exceptions.
Consumer VPNs
Shared IPs, no bandwidth guarantee, and an unhelpful regulatory position for a company.
Cloud partitions
AWS China and Azure China are separate partitions under separate operators. Your global IaC does not simply apply.

03 The new version of an old problem

Where is your model allowed to answer?

A mainland team using a US-hosted model API has all the latency problems of the last decade plus a data export question nobody in the room wants to own. The fix is structurally the same as it always was — put the thing that answers inside the border — and it has become considerably easier now that the strongest open-weight models are Chinese.

  • Open-weight models can run on mainland capacity, close to mainland users and under mainland jurisdiction — which is either exactly what you need or exactly what you must avoid. Either way it should be a decision, not an accident.
  • One control point per jurisdiction, so requests are answered on the side of the border that policy requires and the rule is enforced rather than remembered.
  • Usage records kept in each region, so the audit trail exists on both sides without the records themselves crossing a border.
  • Cross-border links for the traffic that legitimately has to move, on a designed and documented path rather than a tunnel somebody improvised.
Mainland users
Answered inside the mainland. No cross-border round trip, and no export question attached to every request.
European users
Answered inside the EU, with the residency position documented in a form that survives a data protection assessment.
What may cross
Aggregate metrics and configuration. Agreed with your legal team and enforced at the network layer, not in a policy document.
What may not
The content of requests and responses, and anything carrying personal data.
Reporting
One consolidated view of cost and usage across both jurisdictions, without the underlying records leaving either.

04 Track record

We have been writing about this for nine years.

Most of what is published in English about AWS China ARNs, Alibaba Cloud CEN, mainland compliance and cross-border architecture, we wrote. It is all on the blog, free, and it is the reason most China clients arrive here already half-convinced.

Read the archive

2017
China practice since
Alibaba Cloud MVP
4
Mainland platforms operated
100+
Organisations served

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