This topic describes the release notes for Cloud Governance Center and provides links to the relevant references.
July 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Released the governance maturity check 3.0 model.
| 2025-07 |
June 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for configuring the check scope for specific check items:
| 2025-06 |
May 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added specialized check lens:
| 2025-05 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added check snapshots. You can save governance maturity check data as snapshots for future comparison, allowing you to continuously track the trend of your governance maturity. | 2025-05 |
April 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | Optimized | Added support for a multi-account overview page and a global view. | 2025-04 | None |
March 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added 14 check items for high availability. | 2025-03 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added the ability to save filter conditions. You can save filter conditions such as cloud service type, resource ID, resource name, scenario name, and risk item name for easier viewing. | 2025-03 | None |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for custom views. | 2025-03 |
February 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now filter risk items by cloud service type, resource ID, resource name, scenario name, and risk item name. | 2025-02 | None |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for dynamic risk levels for check items. | 2025-02 | None |
January 2025
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New |
| 2025-01 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added a governance overview page in the console. | 2025-01 | |
Protection rules | New | Added two new protection rules. | 2025-01 |
December 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added two check items for RAM Access Analyzer. | 2024-12 | |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now subscribe to receive email or SMS notifications for newly discovered risks from the Governance Maturity Assessment. | 2024-12 | None |
Governance maturity check | New | Management accounts can now download governance maturity check reports in Excel format for multiple accounts within a custom scope. | 2024-12 |
November 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Cloud Governance Center | New | Cloud Governance Center is now available in Alibaba Finance Cloud. | 2024-11 | None |
Account factory | New | Added support for binding tags to accounts by using Terraform. | 2024-11 | None |
October 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Two more check items now support custom check parameters. | 2024-10 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added 13 check items for Edge Security Acceleration (ESA). | 2024-10 | |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now download check reports in Excel format. | 2024-10 |
September 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Protection rules | New | Added 28 new protection rules. | 2024-09 |
August 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | Added support for Terraform:
| 2024-08 | None |
Governance maturity check | New | Released the governance maturity check 2.0 model. | 2024-08 | |
Contacts | New | You can now add contacts in Cloud Governance Center to subscribe to reports and receive subsequent service notifications. | 2024-08 | |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now subscribe to governance check reports, which are periodically sent to the specified contact's email address. | 2024-08 | |
Account factory | New | The account baseline feature now supports the following cloud services:
| 2024-08 |
July 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now configure a scheduled time for checks. Governance maturity checks will be automatically triggered at the specified time each day. | 2024-07 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added nine new check items related to multi-account management. | 2024-07 |
June 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Cloud Governance Center | New | Cloud Governance Center is available in the Germany (Frankfurt) region. | 2024-06 | None |
Account factory | New | The account baseline feature now supports VPN Gateway. | 2024-06 |
May 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | The account baseline feature now supports Microservices Engine (MSE). | 2024-05 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added a unified view of multi-account check results. | 2024-05 |
April 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | You can now customize check parameters for some check items. | 2024-04 | |
Solution library | New | Added Well-Architected solutions to the Cloud Governance Center solution library. | 2024-04 |
March 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added 13 check items for Cloud Firewall. | 2024-03 | |
Protection rules | New | Added 10 new protection rules. | 2024-03 | |
Account factory | New | The account baseline feature now supports configuring multiple VPCs and security groups. | 2024-03 |
February 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for the auxiliary decision-making feature. | 2024-02 | |
Governance maturity check | New |
| 2024-02 | |
Account factory | New | You can now view historical tasks. Tasks for creating accounts and applying account baselines can be viewed on the Historical Tasks page of Account Factory. | 2024-02 | None |
January 2024
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Well-Architected Tool | New | Released the Well-Architected Tool. | 2024-01 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for four new check items. | 2024-01 | |
Governance maturity check | Optimized | Previously, checks were limited to the account used to access Cloud Governance Center. Now, if you have enabled Resource Directory, you can use the management account to enable multi-account checks for all members in your resource directory. | 2024-01 |
October 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Added the ability to disable the governance maturity check feature | 2023-10 | |
Governance maturity check | New | Added support for seven new check items. | 2023-10 | |
Cloud Governance Center | New | Added the ability to deactivate Cloud Governance Center. | 2023-10 |
September 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | Introduced the quick fix feature. You can use this feature to resolve specific risk items that are identified in a governance maturity check. | 2023-09 | |
Protection rules | New | Added more protection rules. | 2023-09 |
July 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | Optimized | Upgraded the governance health check feature to the governance maturity check feature. This feature assesses your cloud resources based on dimensions such as security, efficiency, reliability, and cost. It continuously monitors your enterprise's cloud IT governance performance and provides user-friendly guidance to help you optimize IT governance configurations and reduce risks. | 2023-07 | |
Account factory | New | Added two new account baselines: RAM User Security Settings and Configure RAM role-based SSO. | 2023-07 |
May 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Landing zone setup | New | Added the Service Log Unified Delivery item. | 2023-05 | |
Account factory | New | Added the Preset Tag baseline. | 2023-05 |
April 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Landing zone setup | New | Added the finance industry blueprint template. | 2023-04 |
March 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | Added two new account baselines: ECS Key Pair and ECS Shared Image. | 2023-03 | |
New | Added the following parameters to basic account information: Member Identity and RAM Default Domain Name. | 2023-03 |
February 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Landing zone setup | New | Added the cloud-native blueprint template. | 2023-02 | |
New | Added the Enterprise-level ACK Cluster item. | 2023-02 | ||
Account factory | New | Added support for orchestrating multiple account baselines at a time. | 2023-02 |
December 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | When you configure the Bind CloudSSO Permissions baseline, you can now bind multiple access configurations to multiple CloudSSO users and user groups. | 2022-12 | |
New | Added the RAM Role baseline to the Baseline Orchestration section. | 2022-12 |
November 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | You can now apply an account baseline to multiple accounts at once. | 2022-11 | |
Optimized | You can now apply an account baseline to an account multiple times. | 2022-11 |
October 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | The Activate Service baseline now supports more Alibaba Cloud services, allowing for the automatic activation of over 20 services. | 2022-10 | |
Landing zone setup | New | The initialization task feature is upgraded to the landing zone setup feature, which allows you to select different blueprints to build landing zones. | 2022-10 |
September 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance health check | Optimized | You can now download governance reports. The data collection process from data sources is also optimized. | 2022-09 |
August 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | If CloudSSO is activated, a CloudSSO user is automatically bound to an account when you create the CloudSSO account. | 2022-08 | |
Optimized | The Activate Service baseline now supports Object Storage Service (OSS) and Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone. | 2022-08 |
July 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource structure initialization | Optimized | Simplifies the landing zone setup by reducing the number of steps and the task waiting time. | 2022-07 | |
Account factory | Optimized | You can now preview parameters before you create an account. | 2022-07 | None |
June 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | Optimized specific pages and error messages in the Cloud Governance Center console. | 2022-06 | None. |
May 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | Added more account baselines, including Resource Access Management (RAM) password policies, network settings, contact settings, notification settings, and service activation settings. This simplifies the configuration process for newly created accounts. | 2022-05 | |
New | You can now apply an account baseline to an existing account. | 2022-05 |
April 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance health check | New | The governance health check feature can now be used to check members in your enterprise's resource directory. This helps you identify governance gaps and potential risks early. | 2022-04 | |
Resource structure initialization | Optimized | The resource structure initialization process is optional. The first time you use Cloud Governance Center, you can access all its features without needing to complete the initialization. | 2022-04 |
January 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | You can now create a managed resource account in a resource directory, assign it to a parent folder, and specify a billing account for it. | 2022-01 |
December 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Identities and permissions | New | You can now initialize identities and permissions for multiple accounts by using CloudSSO. Access configurations for the accounts can be initialized based on best practices. | 2021-12 |
November 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Identities and permissions | New | You can now initialize identities and permissions for multiple accounts by using the single sign-on (SSO) feature of RAM. Access configurations for the accounts can be initialized based on best practices. | 2021-11 |
October 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource analysis | New | You can now use the resource analysis feature to view the resource distribution and resource quantity changes for members in a resource directory. This allows you to identify improper resource usage and optimize resource allocation. | 2021-10 | None |
Resource structure | Optimized | You can now modify a billing account on the Overview page. | 2021-10 | None |
September 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Unified audit log delivery | New | You can now deliver ActionTrail and Cloud Config logs for all members in your resource directory to an OSS bucket or a Simple Log Service Logstore that belongs to a specified log archive account. This helps auditors query and analyze audit logs. | 2021-09 | |
Protection rules | New | You can now enable and configure protection rules for Cloud Config for all members of your resource directory in the Cloud Governance Center console. This prevents modifications to the basic configurations of Cloud Governance Center and the resource structure created in Cloud Governance Center, ensuring the security of the multi-account environment. | 2021-09 |
July 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource structure initialization | New | Introduced the resource structure initialization feature. The feature can be used to create a resource directory, create folders, and specify a main account. | 2021-07 |