This topic describes the release history of Resource Access Management (RAM) features and provides links to relevant documentation.
July 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Resource group-based authorization in the Alibaba Cloud Management Console |
This feature allows you to grant a RAM user, RAM user group, or RAM role the permissions on all resources that belong to an Alibaba Cloud account or on a specific resource group in the RAM or Resource Management console. It also allows you to revoke the permissions from a RAM user, RAM user group, or RAM role. | 2020-07 | All | N/A |
June 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM | Time Series Database (TSDB) for InfluxDB supports RAM. | 2020-06 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM |
| Version rotation of custom policies | If you modify a custom policy in the console and the policy already has five versions, the earliest version that is not in use is deleted and the latest version is created. | 2020-06 | All | Manage custom policy versions |
May 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Configuration of the maximum role session duration | The maximum role session duration is configurable in the RAM console. The configuration applies when you log on to the console by using role-based single sign-on (SSO) and when you use the console or call the API operation to assume a RAM role. | 2020-05 | All | Set the maximum session duration for a RAM role |
March 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM | AnalyticDB for MySQL supports RAM. | 2020-03 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM |
| Alibaba Cloud services that support Security Token Service (STS) | Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC) supports STS. | 2020-03 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support STS |
| Service-linked roles | An Alibaba Cloud service may need to access other services to implement a feature. In this case, the Alibaba Cloud service must be authorized. Alibaba Cloud provides service-linked roles to simplify the authorization in such scenarios. | 2020-03 | All | Service-linked roles |
| Configuration of the maximum role session duration | A new parameter named MaxSessionDuration is provided in API operations that are used to manage RAM roles. This parameter specifies
the maximum session duration of a RAM role.
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2020-03 | All |
February 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support STS | Dynamic Route for CDN (DCDN) supports STS. | 2020-02 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support STS |
January 2020
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support STS | ApsaraVideo Live supports STS. | 2020-01 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support STS |
December 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM | Server Migration Center supports RAM. | 2019-12 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM |
November 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| User credential report | This feature allows you to generate and download a user credential report that contains the details of your Alibaba Cloud account and RAM users in the RAM console. The details in the report include logon passwords, AccessKey pairs, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices. | 2019-11-15 | All | Generate and download user credential reports |
| Alibaba Cloud services that support STS | Hybrid Backup Recovery (HBR) supports STS. | 2019-11 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support STS |
October 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM | ID Verification for Financial Services supports RAM. | 2019-10 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM |
| AnalyticDB supports RAM. | ||||
| Alibaba Cloud services that support STS | Cloud Enterprise Network supports STS. | 2019-10 | N/A | |
| E-MapReduce supports STS. | Alibaba Cloud services that support STS |
September 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enable or disable console logon for RAM users | This feature allows you to enable or disable the access of RAM users to the RAM console. You can retain the password, MFA, and other logon settings when you disable RAM user access to the RAM console. You can also clear console logon settings. | 2019-09-09 | All | Manage logon settings for a RAM user |
| Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM | Logic Composer supports RAM. | 2019-09 | N/A | Alibaba Cloud services that support RAM |
June 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auxiliary domain name for identity-based SSO | This feature simplifies the configuration of identity-based SSO. | 2019-06-28 | All | Overview of user-based SSO |
April 2019
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSO | Alibaba Cloud supports SAML 2.0-based SSO. This feature is also known as identity federation. SSO can be implemented between an enterprise identity service and Alibaba Cloud. | 2019-04-04 | All | SSO overview |
November 2018
| Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAM console | The RAM console is updated. | 2018-11-15 | All | RAM documentation |