This topic describes the Alibaba Cloud console accounts and the PolarDB database accounts.
Console accounts
You can use the following accounts to log on to the console:
- Alibaba Cloud account: This type of account allows flexible control over all your Alibaba Cloud resources and is used for billing purposes. You must create an Alibaba Cloud account before you purchase Alibaba Cloud services.
- RAM user. You can create and manage RAM users in the Resource Access Management (RAM) console to share resources among multiple users. RAM users do not own resources. The charges of the resources consumed by RAM users are billed to the corresponding Alibaba Cloud account.
Database accounts
You can use the following accounts to log on to databases in the cluster. For more information, see Create a database account.
Account type | Description |
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Privileged Account |
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Standard Account |
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Related operations
API | Description |
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CreateAccount | Creates an account. |
DescribeAccounts | Queries the accounts of the specified cluster. |
ModifyAccountDescription | Modifies the description of a database account for the specified PolarDB cluster. |
ModifyAccountPassword | Changes the password of a database account for the specified PolarDB cluster. |
GrantAccountPrivilege | Grants a specified standard account the permissions on one or more databases of the specified PolarDB cluster. |
RevokeAccountPrivilege | Revokes the permissions on one or more databases from the specified PolarDB standard account. |
ResetAccount | Resets the permissions of a privileged account for the specified PolarDB cluster. |
DeleteAccount | Deletes an account. |