| Geo or brand-word shortcut | Users who only want a rough first glance | City labels, organization names, and result-page tags | This has the highest false-positive cost and most easily merges raw network, service role, and seller into one answer | Low | Use only as first-pass screening |
| Alibaba Cloud and Aliyun network attribution | Users who need to answer whether it looks like the Alibaba Cloud and Aliyun network | ASN, WHOIS, prefixes, regional clues, and cloud-platform context | It answers whether the IP looks like the Alibaba Cloud and Aliyun network, but it still cannot replace product-line or seller conclusions | Low-medium | Best as the main decision layer |
| Service role plus seller cross-check | Users who need to separate product role and final responsibility together | ECS, SLB, object storage, AliDNS, or third-party workloads running on Alibaba Cloud; Alibaba-owned network does not automatically mean ECS. It may also be AliDNS or an upper-layer workload on Alibaba Cloud | It needs more context and cannot be finished from one IP field alone | Medium | Best as the final judgment path |