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Resource Management:Release notes

Last Updated:Nov 17, 2023

This topic describes the release notes for Resource Management and provides links to the relevant references.

September 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

References

Resource Center新功能标志

The advanced search feature is supported. This feature allows you to query resources within the current account and resources within the members in a resource directory by executing SQL statements.

2023-09

All regions

Overview of advanced search

Tag

Tag policies allow you to use regular expressions to check the compliance of tag values.

2023-09

All regions

Use a regular expression to check the compliance of tag values

Tag

The Associated Resource Tagging feature is supported. When you establish relationships between a primary resource and other resources, this feature enables these resources to automatically inherit tags from the primary resource. After the relationships are established, this feature enables the resources to automatically inherit the tag changes that are made to the primary resource. When you cancel the relationships between the primary resource and the associated resources, this feature enable the system to automatically remove the inherited tags from the associated resources. This reduces tag management and O&M costs.

2023-09

Regions in which the Associated Resource Tagging feature is available

Use the Associated Resource Tagging feature

Resource Group

The following resource types are supported:

  • Smart Access Gateway (SAG): ccn and intelligentrouting

  • Express Connect: routerinterface and virtualborderrouter

  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): publicipaddresspool

  • Elastic Block Storage (EBS): enterprisesnapshotpolicy

2023-09

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

August 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Sharing

You can use access control policies to perform the following operations:

  • Prohibit resource sharing outside a resource directory.

  • Prohibit resource sharing with unexpected accounts.

  • Prohibit the acceptance of resource sharing invitations from accounts outside a resource directory.

  • Prohibit sharing of unexpected types of resources.

2023-08

All regions

Examples of using an access control policy to limit resource sharing

July 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

An internal message is sent when you invite an account to join your resource directory.

2023-07

All regions

Process an invitation

Resource Sharing

Default quotas for resource sharing are increased.

  • Maximum number of resource shares that can be created by using each account: 1,000

  • Maximum number of resources that can be shared with other accounts by using each account: 1,000

2023-07

All regions

Limits on resource sharing

Resource Group

The Network Load Balancer (NLB) service can work with Resource Group.

2023-07

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

June 2023

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Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

The trusted service Managed Service for Prometheus is supported.

2023-06

All regions

Create a global aggregation instance across Alibaba Cloud accounts

Resource Sharing

Elastic Compute Service (ECS) snapshots can be shared.

2023-06

China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), and Singapore

Share a snapshot

Resource Center

Resource Center can be deactivated.

2023-06

All regions

Deactivate Resource Center

May 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Sharing

Key Management Service (KMS) instances can be shared.

2023-05

All regions

Services that work with Resource Sharing

April 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

Contacts can be configured for members. Resource Management is integrated with Alibaba Cloud Message Center. This way, you can create and manage contacts for members in your resource directory in a centralized manner by using the management account of the resource directory, and bind contacts to a specified member or folder in the resource directory or to the entire resource directory.

2023-04

All regions

Manage contacts for a member

The following trusted services are supported: Resource Center and Message Center.

2023-04

All regions

Supported trusted services

Resource-level RAM authorization is supported.

2023-04

All regions

Resource Directory

Resource Center

More services and resource types are supported.

2023-04

All regions

Services that work with Resource Center

March 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

References

Resource Group

The Transfer Associated Resources feature is supported.

2023-03

All regions

Use the Transfer Associated Resources feature

Resource Directory

The silence period of member deletion is changed from a fixed period (45 days) to a non-fixed period (2 days to 35 days). The silence period depends on the types of resources within the member that you want to delete.

2023-03

All regions

Delete a member of the resource account type

Resource Directory

Examples of custom access control policies that are used to prohibit resource sharing outside a resource directory are added.

2023-03

All regions

February 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Center

Resource Center is released.

Resource Center allows you to view resources across accounts, services, or regions. This helps you have a global view of resources within your Alibaba Cloud accounts. Resource Center also allows you to search for resources by region, service, resource type, resource ID, resource name, or tag. After you find the resource that you want to manage, you can go to the corresponding service console with one click and perform subsequent operations. Resource Center facilitates resource searches and management.

2023-02

All regions

Overview of Resource Center

Resource Directory

Resource Directory API of a new version is released. Different endpoints are used for the API at the China site (aliyun.com) and the international site (alibabacloud.com).

2023-02

All regions

Notice: Resource Directory API of a new version released

Tag

The pre-event interception feature of tag policies is in invitational preview. If you configure this feature in a tag policy, this feature takes effect for both resources to which no tags are added and resources to which tags not specified in the tag policy are added.

2023-02

All regions

Enable pre-event interception of non-compliant tags

January 2023

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

A resource group in the Deleting state does not occupy your resource group quota.

2023-01

All regions

Delete a resource group

Resource Directory

Resellers can use Resource Directory to create and manage accounts at the international site (alibabacloud.com).

2023-01

All regions

CreateResourceAccount

December 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

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Resource Directory

The account name (secure email address) of a member can be changed.

2022-12

All regions

Change the account name (secure email address) of a member

Resource Sharing

IP address pools can be shared.

2022-12

All regions

Services that work with Resource Sharing

Resource Sharing

Resource sharing-related permissions are added. Each type of resource that supports resource sharing has at least one resource sharing-related permission. The permission defines the operations that principals can perform on this type of resource in a resource share.

2022-12

All regions

Permissions for resource sharing

Resource Group

The following services can work with Resource Group: Logic Composer, Domain Names, and Express Connect.

2022-12

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

November 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

The following services can work with Resource Group: PrivateLink, Data Transmission Service (DTS), Global Accelerator (GA), and DataWorks.

2022-11

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

Tag

Tag API operations are supported by 21 services, such as ApsaraDB for Cassandra, DataV, DataWorks, Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS), and WUYING Workspace.

2022-11

All regions

Types of resources that support Tag API operations

October 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

The following services can work with Resource Group: AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, Container Registry, and Microservices Engine (MSE).

2022-10

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

September 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

The trusted service Quota Center is supported.

2022-09

All regions

Supported trusted services

August 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

The deletion feature for members of the resource account type is in invitational preview.

2022-08

All regions

July 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

Tags can be added to members in a resource directory.

2022-07

All regions

Tag

Post-detection can be performed for the specified types of resources.

2022-07

All regions

Create a tag policy

Resource Sharing

Resources can be shared with an Alibaba Cloud account that is not the management account or a member of a resource directory.

2022-07

All regions

VPC prefix lists can be shared.

2022-07

All regions

Services that work with Resource Sharing

June 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Tag

API operations related to tag policies are provided.

2022-06

All regions

List of operations by function

A tag policy can be used to check the tag compliance of resources within the management account of a resource directory.

2022-06

All regions

Overview of the Tag Policy feature

A member of a resource directory can be used to enable the Tag Policy feature that is in single-account mode.

2022-06

All regions

The ListSupportResourceTypes API operation is added to query the resource types supported by tags and tag-related capability items.

2022-06

All regions

ListSupportResourceTypes

May 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

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Tag

The ListResourcesByTag API operation is added to query resources based on tags.

2022-05

All regions

ListResourcesByTag

April 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

Allow statements are supported in access control policies.

2022-04

All regions

Languages of access control policies

The trusted service Service Catalog is supported.

2022-04

All regions

Supported trusted services

The trusted service Cloud Config that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported.

2022-04

All regions

Supported trusted services

Resource Sharing

Product portfolios in Service Catalog can be shared.

2022-04

All regions

Services that work with Resource Sharing

Resource Group

On the Resources tab of the details page of a resource group in the Resource Management console, tags can be added to the resources in the resource group. This way, the resources can be managed by resource group or tag in a centralized manner.

2022-04

All regions

Add a tag to a resource in a resource group

The ResourceGroupIds request parameter is added to the ListResourceGroups API operation. You can use this parameter to specify multiple resource group IDs at a time. This way, you can call the ListResourceGroups API operation to query the information of multiple resource groups at a time.

2022-04

All regions

ListResourceGroups

Resource Meta Center (RMC)

On the My Resource page of the Resource Management console, tags can be added to the resources listed on this page. This way, the resources can be managed by resource group or tag in a centralized manner.

2022-04

All regions

Add a tag to a resource in a resource group

Tag

A tag policy can be used to enable resources in a resource group to automatically inherit tags from the resource group.

2022-04

All regions

Enable automatic tag inheritance from a resource group

createdby tags are supported by the following Alibaba Cloud services: VPN Gateway, Internet Shared Bandwidth, Bastionhost, Anti-DDoS Origin, and Alibaba Cloud DNS.

2022-04

All regions

View the Alibaba Cloud services that support createdby tags

March 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Tag

The Tag Policy feature is supported. Tag policies are used to standardize the tags that are added to resources. You can use a tag policy to define the tags that must be added to your resources. Compliant tags can help you improve the efficiency in aspects such as cost allocation by tag and automated O&M. Tag policies support the single-account mode and multi-account mode. The two modes can meet your business requirements for tag standardization management in different stages.

2022-03

All regions

Overview of the Tag Policy feature

RMC

The ListResourceRelationships API operation is added to query the resources that are associated with a specified resource.

2022-03

All regions

ListResourceRelationships

The resources returned by the SearchResources API operation can be sorted based on the creation time of the resources.

2022-03

All regions

SearchResources

February 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

Tags can be added to resource groups.

2022-02

All regions

January 2022

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Sharing

Templates in Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) can be shared.

2022-01

All regions

Overview of Resource Sharing

Resource Group

The application group feature provided by CloudMonitor is integrated into the Resource Group service.

2022-01

All regions

Create an application group from a resource group

createdby tag

createdby tags are supported by the following types of resources:

  • ECS: image and snapshotpolicy

  • ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ: instance, group, and topic

2022-01

All regions

View the Alibaba Cloud services that support createdby tags

December 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Enabling of a resource directory

The process of enabling a resource directory is optimized. A new account can be created to enable a resource directory and used as the management account of the resource directory.

2021-12

All regions

Enable a resource directory

Member management for Resource Directory

Mobile phone numbers can be bound to resource accounts for security purposes. The mobile phone numbers are used to verify the identities of users who use resource accounts and receive notifications from some Alibaba Cloud services.

2021-12

All regions

Bind a mobile phone number to a resource account

The feature for switching a member type is optimized in the following aspects:

  • The process of switching a resource account to a cloud account is simplified.

    When you switch a resource account to a cloud account, you need to only change the type of the member to cloud account. You no longer need to specify an email address and confirm the switching from the confirmation email. This enables you to use services or tools, such as ROS and Terraform, to automatically set up switching tasks for members.

  • A cloud account can be switched to a resource account.

    You can switch a cloud account that meets the required conditions to a resource account. To ensure member security, the root user of the cloud account is disabled after the switch operation.

The process of accepting an invitation to join a resource directory is optimized in the following aspects: Only invitees that pass enterprise verification are allowed to accept invitations, and the user interface provided in the Resource Management console is more user-friendly.

Process an invitation

Resource Group

Resource groups are supported by the following Alibaba Cloud services:

  • ROS

  • Operation Orchestration Service (OOS)

2021-12

All regions

Services that work with Resource Group

The search feature is supported for resources that you want to move to a resource group when you move the resources across resource groups.

Transfer resources to a resource group

Tag

createdby tags are changed in the following aspects:

  • createdby tags can be viewed in the Resource Management console and the console of an Alibaba Cloud service.

  • The tag key of createdby tags is changed from acs:createdby to acs:tag:createdby.

2021-12

All regions

Overview of createdby tags

A public template for tag inheritance is provided in the OOS console. You can use the template to enable multiple resources related to an ECS instance to inherit the tags added to the ECS instance. The resources are disk, elastic network interface (ENI), snapshot, and elastic IP address (EIP).

Use OOS to inherit tags from ECS instances for the resources of the ECS instances at a time

November 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

Resource search in resource groups is optimized. You can search for resources by resource name, IP address, or tag.

2021-11

All regions

Search for resources in a resource group

Resource search across resource groups is supported. You can search for resources across resource groups by resource ID, resource name, IP address, or tag.

Query resources that belong to different resource groups

The ListResourceGroups API operation can be used to query a resource group by the ID, identifier, or display name of the resource group.

ListResourceGroups

A resource list can be exported on the My Resource page of the Resource Management console.

Export resources in different resource groups

RMC

More Alibaba Cloud services and resources are supported. A total of 17 Alibaba Cloud services and 25 types of resources are supported.

2021-11

All regions

Resource types that support RMC

The SearchResources API operation is added to query the resources that can be accessed within the current account.

SearchResources

createdby tag

createdby tags are a type of system tag that is generated by Alibaba Cloud and automatically added to resources. This type of tag is used to identify the creators of resources. createdby tags can help you analyze costs and bills and manage the costs of resources in an efficient manner. 21 Alibaba Cloud services support createdby tags.

2021-11

All regions

Overview of createdby tags

Resource Sharing

Resource sharing within a resource directory is supported. You can share your resources with all members in your resource directory, all members in a specific folder in your resource directory, or a specific member in your resource directory only after you enable resource sharing.

2021-11

All regions

Enable resource sharing

October 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Trusted service for Resource Directory

The trusted service Security Center that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported.

2021-10

All regions

Supported trusted services

Resource Group

The API operation that is used to move multiple resources to a resource group at a time is added. This API operation allows you to move multiple resources that reside in different regions or belong to different services or resource groups to the same resource group at a time.

2021-10

All regions

MoveResources

September 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

References

Trusted service for Resource Directory

The following trusted services are supported:

  • Log Audit Service

  • ROS

2021-09

All regions

Supported trusted services

The trusted service ActionTrail that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported.

Preset tag

Preset tags are visible in all Alibaba Cloud regions.

2021-09

All regions

The following method can be used to create a preset tag: Use an Excel file to import a preset tag.

The resources to which a preset tag is added can be exported as a CSV file.

Custom tag

The resources to which a custom tag is added can be exported as a CSV file.

2021-09

All regions

Export resources to which a custom tag is added in a resource group

August 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Trusted service for Resource Directory

The trusted service CloudSSO is supported.

2021-08

China (Shanghai) and US (Silicon Valley)

Supported trusted services

Resource Group

The resource group deletion feature is optimized in the following aspects:

  • The time the system requires to check whether a resource group contains resources after deletion is performed for the resource group is reduced to three days.

  • A resource group in the Deleting state is renamed by the system.

2021-08

All regions

Delete a resource group

All resources in a resource group can be exported as a CSV file.

2021-08

All regions

Export resources in a resource group

May 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Trusted service for Resource Directory

The trusted service Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) is supported.

2021-05

All regions

Supported trusted services

April 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Trusted service for Resource Directory

A trusted service refers to an Alibaba Cloud service that is integrated with the Resource Directory service. You can use the management account of your resource directory to complete organization-based management tasks in trusted services. This simplifies the unified management of Alibaba Cloud services.

2021-04

All regions

Overview of trusted services

The management account of a resource directory can be used to specify a member in the resource directory as a delegated administrator account of a trusted service. After a member is specified as a delegated administrator account of a trusted service, the member can be used to access information about the resource directory in the trusted service. The information includes the structure and members of the resource directory. The member can also be used to manage business within the resource directory.

2021-04

All regions

Manage a delegated administrator account

The following trusted services are supported:

  • Cloud Config

  • ActionTrail

  • Security Center

  • Cloud Firewall

2021-04

All regions

Supported trusted services

March 2021

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Control Policy for Resource Directory

The Control Policy feature provided by the Resource Directory service allows you to manage the permission boundaries of the folders or members in a resource directory in a centralized manner. This feature is implemented based on the resource directory. You can use this feature to develop common or dedicated rules for access control. The Control Policy feature does not grant permissions but only defines permission boundaries. Before you use an account that is a member of your resource directory to access resources, you must grant the required permissions to the account by using the Resource Access Management (RAM) service.

2021-03

All regions

Overview of the Control Policy feature

Member management for Resource Directory

The member management feature for Resource Directory is optimized in the following aspects:

  • The Members tab is added to the Resource Directory page. This tab provides a view different from the Organization tab. The two tabs together allow you to comprehensively manage resources.

  • You can perform fuzzy searches for members by member name, Alibaba Cloud account name, or Alibaba Cloud account ID. This enables you to quickly find the desired member.

  • When you create a member, you can customize a prefix for the Alibaba Cloud account name that corresponds to the member. This enables you to identify the purpose of the member.

  • When you invite an Alibaba Cloud account to join your resource directory, the system automatically uses the name of the Alibaba Cloud account as the member name. This enables you to easily identify and manage the members that are invited to join your resource directory.

  • The members that are created in a resource directory are resource accounts. Cloud accounts cannot be created in a resource directory. You can invite Alibaba Cloud accounts to join your resource directory. The Alibaba Cloud accounts that join your resource directory are cloud accounts.

2021-03

All regions

December 2020

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Sharing

Resource Sharing allows you to share the resources of your account with other accounts.

2020-12

All regions

Overview of Resource Sharing

November 2019

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Account invitation for Resource Directory

You can invite Alibaba Cloud accounts to join your resource directory for centralized management.

2019-11

All regions

Invite an Alibaba Cloud account to join a resource directory

September 2019

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Directory

Resource Directory allows you to quickly create an organizational structure for resources based on your business or business ecosystem. You can add the accounts used by your enterprise to the structure to form a hierarchy for the accounts and resources.

2019-09

All regions

Enable a resource directory

May 2019

Feature

Description

Release date

Region

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Resource Group

Resource Group allows you to sort resources owned by your Alibaba Cloud account. This simplifies the resource and permission management of your Alibaba Cloud account.

2019-05

All regions

Create a resource group