This topic describes the release notes for Cloud Governance Center and provides links to the relevant references.
September 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | New | The quick fix feature is supported. You can use the quick fix feature to fix specific risk items that are detected in a governance maturity check. | 2023-09 | |
Protection rules | New | More protection rules are supported. | 2023-09 |
July 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance maturity check | Optimized | The governance health check feature is upgraded to the governance maturity check feature. The governance maturity check feature can be used to check the security, operational excellence, reliability, and cost optimization of your cloud resources. It can continuously monitor the IT governance conditions in the cloud and provide governance guidance. This helps optimize your IT governance configurations in the cloud and reduces risks. | 2023-07 | |
Account factory | New | The following account baseline items are added: 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 | The Service Log Unified Delivery item is added. | 2023-05 | |
Account factory | New | The Preset Tag baseline item is added. | 2023-05 |
April 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Landing zone setup | New | The finance industry blueprint template is added. | 2023-04 |
March 2023
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | The following account baseline items are added: ECS Key Pair and ECS Shared Image. | 2023-03 | |
New | The following parameters are added 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 | The cloud-native blueprint template is added. | 2023-02 | |
New | The Enterprise-level ACK Cluster item is added. | 2023-02 | ||
Account factory | New | Multiple account baselines can be orchestrated at a time. | 2023-02 |
December 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | Multiple access configurations can be bound to multiple CloudSSO users and user groups when you configure the Bind CloudSSO Permissions baseline item in the Baseline Orchestration section. | 2022-12 | |
New | The RAM Role baseline item is added to the Baseline Orchestration section. | 2022-12 |
November 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | An account baseline can be applied to multiple accounts at a time. | 2022-11 | |
Optimized | An account baseline can be repeatedly applied to an account. | 2022-11 |
October 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | More Alibaba Cloud services are supported for the Activate Service baseline item. More than 20 Alibaba Cloud services can be automatically activated. | 2022-10 | |
Landing zone setup | New | The initialization task feature is upgraded to the landing zone setup feature. You can select different blueprints to build landing zones. | 2022-10 |
September 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Governance health check | Optimized | Governance reports can be downloaded and the process of collecting data from data sources is optimized. | 2022-09 |
August 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | A CloudSSO user is automatically bound to an account when you create the account if CloudSSO is activated. | 2022-08 | |
Optimized | Object Storage Service (OSS) and Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone are supported for the Activate Service baseline item. | 2022-08 |
July 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource structure initialization | Optimized | Resource structure initialization tasks are simplified after the number of steps and the task waiting time are reduced. | 2022-07 | |
Account factory | Optimized | Parameters can be previewed before you create an account. | 2022-07 | None |
June 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | Optimized | Specific pages and error messages are optimized in the Cloud Governance Center console. | 2022-06 | None |
May 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | More account baseline items are added, such as Resource Access Management (RAM) password policies, network settings, contact settings, notification settings, and service activation settings. The procedure for configuring an account that you created is simplified. | 2022-05 | |
New | An account baseline can be applied 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 be used to check the members in the resource directory of your enterprise. You can identify governance deficiencies and potential risks at the earliest opportunity. | 2022-04 | |
Resource structure initialization | Optimized | The resource structure initialization process is optional. The first time you use Cloud Governance Center, you can use all features of Cloud Governance Center without the need to initialize the resource structure. | 2022-04 |
January 2022
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Account factory | New | A managed resource account can be created in a resource directory. You can assign the resource account to a parent folder and specify a main account for the resource account. | 2022-01 |
December 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Identities and permissions | New | The identities and permissions of multiple accounts can be initialized by using CloudSSO. The access configurations of the accounts can be initialized based on the best practices. | 2021-12 |
November 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Identities and permissions | New | The identities and permissions of multiple accounts can be initialized by the single sign-on (SSO) feature of RAM. The access configurations of the accounts can be initialized based on the best practices. | 2021-11 |
October 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource analysis | New | The resource analysis feature can be used to view the resource distribution and resource quantity changes of members in a resource directory. This way, you can identify inappropriate use of resources and optimize resource allocation. | 2021-10 | View resource distribution and the trend in the resource quantity |
Resource structure | Optimized | A billing account can be modified on the Overview page. | 2021-10 | None |
September 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Delivery of audit logs | New | ActionTrail logs and Cloud Config logs of all members in your resource directory can be delivered to an OSS bucket or a Simple Log Service Logstore that belongs to the specified log archive account. This helps auditors query and analyze audit logs. | 2021-09 | |
Protection rules | New | The protection rules of Cloud Config can be enabled and configured for all members of your resource directory in the Cloud Governance Center console. This prevents the basic configurations of Cloud Governance Center and the resource structure created in Cloud Governance Center from being modified. This also ensures the security of the multi-account environment. | 2021-09 |
July 2021
Feature | Change type | Description | Release date | References |
Resource structure initialization | New | The resource structure initialization feature is available. The feature can be used to create a resource directory, create folders, and specify a main account. | 2021-07 |