This topic describes the release notes for CloudSSO and provides links to the relevant references.
October 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
New supported region | Available in the South Korea (Seoul) region. | 2025-10 | South Korea (Seoul) |
April 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | Region expansion | References |
CLI | Alibaba Cloud CLI version 3.0.271 and later introduce a new CloudSSO credential type, simplifying the credential configuration process. | 2025-04 | All | Use Alibaba Cloud CLI to access CloudSSO and Alibaba Cloud resources |
Permission management | You can now use the | 2025-04 | All |
June 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Delegated administrator account | You can use the management account of a resource directory to specify a member of the resource directory as the delegated administrator account of CloudSSO. Then, you must enable the delegated administrator account for CloudSSO as a CloudSSO administrator. The delegated administrator account of CloudSSO is authorized by the CloudSSO administrator to manage CloudSSO resources. | 2024-06 | All |
May 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Security Token Service (STS) token | This feature allows a CloudSSO user to use an STS token to access the resources of the accounts in a resource directory by using Alibaba Cloud CLI or SDKs. | 2024-05 | All | |
Single sign-on (SSO) | Support for trusted CA-signed certificates for service providers. (Under invitational preview) | 2024-05 | All | Manage CA certificates of the SP (Under invitational preview) |
January 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Password policy | You can configure a password policy to specify requirements such as the password length, password validity period, and number of password retries. | 2024-01 | All | |
Logon IP whitelist | You can configure the IP address whitelist to allow CloudSSO users to log on to the CloudSSO user portal from only specified IP addresses. This enhances access security. | 2024-01 | All |
December 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Global acceleration | CloudSSO now offers a global acceleration feature to improve the stability of user access from international regions. (Under invitational preview) | 2023-12 | All |
September
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Quotas | CloudSSO is integrated with Quota Center to enable customers to apply for quota increases. | 2023-09 | All |
June 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Alert notifications | You can configure alert notifications of System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) credential expiration and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) signing certificate expiration of CloudSSO by using Cloud Config and CloudMonitor. | 2023-06 | All | Configure alert notifications of SCIM credential expiration and SAML signing certificate expiration |
November 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
MFA | MFA settings for unusual logons are supported. | 2022-11 | All |
October 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Resource Access Management (RAM) user provisioning | RAM user provisioning is supported. You can create a RAM user provisioning for a member in your resource directory to create a RAM user that has the same username as a CloudSSO user that you use. This way, the CloudSSO user can access the resources of the member as the RAM user. | 2022-10 | All |
August 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
MFA | MFA settings can be applied to all users or a single user. | 2022-08 | All |
March 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Region expansion | Available in the Germany (Frankfurt) region. | 2022-03 | Germany (Frankfurt) |
January 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
Region expansion | Available in the China (Hong Kong) region. | 2022-01 | China (Hong Kong) |
August 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported region | References |
CloudSSO | Cloud SSO is integrated with Alibaba Cloud Resource Directory to provide unified multi-account identity management and access control. You can use CloudSSO to centrally manage users of an enterprise who need to access Alibaba Cloud resources and assign access permissions on the accounts in a resource directory to the users. You can also configure settings to implement SSO access to Alibaba Cloud resources from an IdP. You need to configure the settings only once. | 2021-08 | China (Shanghai) and US (Silicon Valley) |