Alibaba Cloud Resource Management provides a suite of services for enterprise IT administration, including Resource Directory, Resource Group, Resource Sharing, Tag, and Resource Center. Use these services to organize accounts, manage resources hierarchically, share resources across your enterprise, and search for resources across accounts, products, and regions.
Resource Directory
Resource Directory is an Alibaba Cloud service that helps enterprise customers manage multi-level relationships between resources and accounts.
Resource Directory establishes a relationship structure for your enterprise based on resource usage and provides global consistency, so you can efficiently plan, build, and manage resources for multiple application services.
Build a directory structure that reflects resource relationships based on your business or ecosystem. Place multiple enterprise accounts into this structure to form multi-level resource relationships, enabling centralized management that supports financial management, security, auditing, and compliance.
Resource Directory also provides an increasing number of data services. Applications for billing, settlement, operation tracking, and compliance audits can be seamlessly integrated with Resource Directory, delivering service capabilities built on your business relationships.
Resource Group
Resource Group lets you organize and manage resources within a single Alibaba Cloud account, simplifying resource grouping and authorization management.
With Resource Group, you can:
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Manage cloud resources across multiple regions within a single account.
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Assign an administrator to each resource group to independently manage all resources in that group.
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View billing and consumption data by resource group to resolve cost allocation across business units.
Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing lets you share specified resources from your account with one or more destination accounts.
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Share resources: As a resource owner, create a resource share, add resources and principals, and share with other members.
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Use shared resources: As a principal, directly use shared resources. Allowed operations vary by resource type.
Tag
Tags help you categorize, search for, and aggregate cloud resources that share the same characteristics across dimensions, simplifying resource management.
The Tag service provides:
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A unified resource console
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A visual management portal
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A unified search portal
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A tag editor that helps you assign, edit, and query tags in batches
A tag is a key-value pair. Attach tags to cloud resources to:
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Find resources quickly.
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Automate O&M.
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Control access to resources.
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Analyze data in Simple Log Service.
Resource Center
Resource Center provides a unified view of resources across accounts, products, and regions. View a global list of resources to obtain a complete picture of your cloud resources. Search for resources by region, product, resource type, resource ID, resource name, or resource tag, and navigate directly to the corresponding service console from the search results.
Usage
After you register an Alibaba Cloud account, you can access Resource Management through the following methods:
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Console
Log on to the Resource Management console to manage your resources through a web-based interface.
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API and SDK
Resource Management provides RESTful APIs and SDKs in multiple programming languages for custom development.
Use OpenAPI Explorer to debug APIs online and generate SDK examples.