If you want to use MaxCompute and create a project in a visualized manner in DataWorks, you must activate MaxCompute and DataWorks. This topic describes how to activate MaxCompute and DataWorks.
Prerequisites
- An Alibaba Cloud account is created.
If you use MaxCompute for the first time, we recommend that you activate MaxCompute by using your Alibaba Cloud account. For more information about how to create an Alibaba Cloud account, see Create an Alibaba Cloud account.
- A Resource Access Management (RAM) user is created.
If you need to activate MaxCompute as a RAM user, make sure that you have obtained the RAM user and granted the AliyunBSSOrderAccess permission to the RAM user. For more information about how to create or obtain RAM user information, see Create a RAM user.
Procedure
What to do next
- After you activate MaxCompute, you can directly go to the default MaxCompute project in the MaxCompute console. On the page that appears, click Query editing to execute SQL statements. For more information about query editing operations, see Query editor in the MaxCompute console.
- You can also create a project. For more information about how to create a project, see Create a MaxCompute project.