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PolarDB:RAM resource authorization

Last Updated:Mar 30, 2026

Resource Access Management (RAM) lets you grant RAM users access to the PolarDB clusters owned by your Alibaba Cloud account. By default, the account owner has full access to all resources. Use RAM to control what individual RAM users can access and manage.

For instructions on attaching a policy to a RAM user, see Grant permissions to a RAM user.

PolarDB resource type

PolarDB exposes one authorizable resource type: dbcluster.

Resource type Description
dbcluster A PolarDB cluster

Resource ARN format

Use the following ARN format to identify a PolarDB cluster in a policy statement:

acs:polardb:$regionid:$accountid:dbcluster/
Parameter Description Example
$regionid The region where the cluster resides. Use * to match any region. cn-hangzhou
$accountid Your Alibaba Cloud account ID. Use * to match any account. 12345678901234

To match all clusters in a specific account and region, replace the cluster ID with a wildcard:

acs:polardb:cn-hangzhou:12345678901234:dbcluster/*

To match all PolarDB resources regardless of region or account:

acs:polardb:*:*:dbcluster/

Example policy

The following policy grants read-only access to PolarDB clusters. It contains two statements:

  • Statement 1: Allows polardb:Describe* actions on all clusters in the cn-hangzhou region under account 12345678901234.

  • Statement 2: Allows the same read-only actions on any PolarDB resource.

{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "polardb:Describe*"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "acs:polardb:cn-hangzhou:12345678901234:dbcluster/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action": "polardb:Describe*",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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