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title: "Cloud Data Box overview"
slug: "data-box-overview"
tags: ["Cloud Data Box"]
updated: 2026-09-17T09:47:59Z
published: 2026-09-17T09:47:59Z
canonical: "api.ncloud-docs.com/data-box-overview"
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# Cloud Data Box overview

Available in VPC

Cloud Data Box is a NAVER Cloud Platform service that provides a variety of rich big data related to NAVER Search and Shopping, as well as an analytics platform for analyzing big data. Cloud Data Box provides APIs for exporting and importing files in the RESTful form.

## Common Cloud Data Box settings

The following describes commonly used request and response formats in Cloud Data Box APIs.

### Request

The following describes the common request format.

#### API URL

The request API URL is as follows:

```
https://databox.apigw.ntruss.com
```

#### Request headers

The following describes the request headers.

| Field | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `x-ncp-apigw-timestamp` | Required | This is the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. - Request is considered invalid if the timestamp differs from the current time by more than 5 minutes. - Unix timestamp format. |
| `x-ncp-iam-access-key` | Required | Access key issued on NAVER Cloud Platform - Issue and check access key: See [Create authentication key](/docs/en/common-ncpapi). - Issue and check access key for sub account: See [Create sub account](https://guide.ncloud-docs.com/docs/en/subaccount-use#%EC%84%9C%EB%B8%8C-%EA%B3%84%EC%A0%95-%EC%83%9D%EC%84%B1). |
| `x-ncp-apigw-signature-v2` | Required | Base64-encoded signature that encrypts the request information with a secret key that maps to the access key issued on NAVER Cloud Platform, using the HMAC encryption algorithm (HmacSHA256) - Issue and check secret key: See [Create authentication key](/docs/en/common-ncpapi). - Create signature: See [Create signature](/docs/en/common-ncpapi). |
| `x-ncp-lang` | Optional | Multilingual handling of response data - `ko-KR` \| `en-US` (default) \| `zh-CN` - `ko-kR`: Korean - `en-US`: English - `zh-CN`: Chinese (Simplified) |

### Response

The following describes the common response format.

#### Response status codes

Cloud Data Box APIs use NAVER Cloud Platform's common response status codes. For response status codes common to NAVER Cloud Platform, see [Ncloud API response status codes](/docs/en/common-ncpapi#3%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5%EC%83%81%ED%83%9C%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C).

## Cloud Data Box API

The following describes the APIs provided by the Cloud Data Box service.

| API | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [apply-file-export](/docs/en/apply-file-export-1) | Request file export. |
| [apply-file-import](/docs/en/apply-file-import-1) | Request file import. |
| [get-bucket-list](/docs/en/get-bucket-list-1) | Get Object Storage bucket available for file export and import. |
| [get-export-apply-detail](/docs/en/get-export-apply-detail-1) | Get details of file export request information. |
| [get-export-apply-list](/docs/en/get-export-apply-list-1) | Get file export request list. |
| [get-import-apply-detail](/docs/en/get-import-apply-detail-1) | Get details of file import request information. |
| [get-import-apply-list](/docs/en/importget-import-apply-list) | Get file import request list. |
| [get-nas-list](/docs/en/get-nas-list) | Get NAS used for exporting and importing files. |

## Cloud Data Box related resources

NAVER Cloud Platform provides a variety of related resources to help users better understand Cloud Data Box APIs.

- Cloud Data Box API guides
  - [Create signature](/docs/en/common-ncpapi): how to create a signature to add to the request header
  - [Sub Account User Guide](https://guide.ncloud-docs.com/docs/en/subaccount-overview): how to issue the access key to be added to the request header
  - [Common Ncloud response status codes](/docs/en/common-ncpapi#3-%EC%9D%91%EB%8B%B5-%EC%83%81%ED%83%9C-%EC%BD%94%EB%93%9C): information on common response status codes of NAVER Cloud Platform used by the Cloud Hadoop service
- How to use the Cloud Data Box service
  - [Cloud Data Box User Guide](https://guide.ncloud-docs.com/docs/en/clouddatabox-overview): how to use Cloud Data Box in the NAVER Cloud Platform console
  - [Ncloud use environment guide](https://guide.ncloud-docs.com//docs/en/environment-environment-1-1): guide on VPC and Classic environments and supported features
  - [Introduction to pricing, characteristics, and detailed features](https://www.ncloud.com/product/analytics/cloudDataBox): the summary of pricing system, characteristics, and detailed features of Cloud Data Box
  - [Latest service news](https://www.ncloud.com/intro/news): the latest news on the Cloud Data Box service
  - [FAQ](https://www.ncloud.com/support/faq/prod?categoryCode2=ANALY&categoryCode3=SV_0194&page=1): frequently asked questions from the Cloud Data Box service users
  - [Contact us](https://www.ncloud.com/support/question/service): Send direct inquiries for unresolved questions that aren't answered by the API guide.