PolarDB-X provides two types of accounts: privileged accounts and standard accounts. This topic describes how to use these accounts to manage PolarDB-X instances.
Account types
The following table describes the two types of accounts that are provided by PolarDB-X.
Account type | Maximum number of databases that can be created | Description |
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Privileged account | 500 |
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Standard account | 500 |
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Note
- After an account is created, the type of the account cannot be changed. You can delete the account and then create an account whose name is the same and the account type is different.
- You can create RAM users in your Alibaba Cloud account and grant the permissions on specific instances to the RAM users. For more information, see Create a RAM user.
You can perform the following operations to manage an account in the console: