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Resource Access Management:Services that work with STS

Last Updated:Nov 11, 2025

This topic lists the Alibaba Cloud services that work with Security Token Service (STS).

Overview

Each table in this topic contains the following columns:

  • Service: the name of the Alibaba Cloud service that supports STS.

  • Sub-service or sub-module: the sub-service or sub-module of the service. A hyphen (-) indicates that this does not apply.

  • RAM code: the unique code used in RAM to identify the service.

  • Console: indicates whether RAM can be used for access control in the service's console. Supported indicates support, Not supported indicates no support, and ○ indicates that the service does not have a console.

  • API: indicates whether RAM can be used for access control when calling the service's API. Supported indicates support, Not supported indicates no support, and ○ indicates that the service does not provide an API.

For more information about STS, see What is STS? and RAM role overview.

Elastic computing

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

ECS

ecs

Supported

Supported

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

EBS

ecs

Supported

Supported

EBS

EBS

ebs

Supported

Supported

ECS

Elastic GPU Service

ecs

Supported

Supported

ECS

ECS Bare Metal Instance

ecs

Supported

Supported

ECS

Dedicated Host (DDH)

ecs

Supported

Supported

ECS

Alibaba Cloud Linux 2

ecs

Supported

Supported

Auto Scaling

-

ess

Supported

Supported

Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)

-

cs

Supported

Supported

Batch Compute

-

batchcompute

Supported

Supported

Resource Orchestration Service (ROS)

-

ros

Supported

Supported

Function Compute

-

fc

Supported

Supported

Simple Application Server

-

swas

Supported

Elastic High Performance Computing (E-HPC)

-

ehpc

Supported

Supported

Container Registry (Enterprise Edition)

-

cr

Supported

Supported

Container Registry (Personal Edition)

-

cr

Not supported

Not supported

Elastic Desktop Service (EDS)

EDS

ecd

Supported

Supported

Elastic Container Instance

-

eci

Supported

Supported

CloudFlow

-

fnf

Supported

Supported

Web App Service

-

webplus

Supported

Supported

Compute Nest

-

  • computenest

  • computenestsupplier

Supported

Distributed Cloud Container Platform for Kubernetes (ACK One)

-

adcp

Supported

Supported

Databases

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB RDS

rds

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL

rds

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB RDS for SQL Server

rds

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL

rds

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB RDS for PPAS

rds

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB RDS

ApsaraDB for MyBase

rds

Supported

Supported

Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible)

-

kvstore

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB for MongoDB

-

dds

Supported

Supported

AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL

-

gpdb

Supported

Supported

Data Transmission Service (DTS)

-

dts

Supported

Supported

Data Management

-

dms

Supported

Supported

AnalyticDB for MySQL

-

adb

Supported

Supported

PolarDB for Xscale (PolarDB-X)

-

  • drds

  • polardbx

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB for HBase

-

hbase

Supported

Supported

Advanced Database & Application Migration

-

adam

Supported

PolarDB

-

polardb

Supported

Supported

Data Disaster Recovery

-

dbs

Supported

Supported

Database Autonomy Service (DAS)

-

hdm

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB for OceanBase

-

oceanbase

Supported

ApsaraDB for Cassandra

-

cassandra

Supported

Supported

LedgerDB

-

ledgerdb

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB for ClickHouse

-

clickhouse

Supported

Supported

Database Gateway (DG)

-

dg

Supported

Supported

ApsaraDB for SelectDB

-

selectdb

Supported

Supported

Storage

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Object Storage Service (OSS)

-

oss

Supported

Supported

File Storage NAS (NAS)

-

nas

Supported

Supported

Tablestore

-

ots

Supported

Supported

Cloud Storage Gateway (CSG)

-

hcs-sgw

Supported

Supported

Cloud Backup

-

hbr

Supported

Supported

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Hybrid Cloud Storage

hgw

Supported

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Remote Service

asrs

Supported

Cloud communication

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Short Message Service (SMS)

-

dysms

Supported

Supported

Networking

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

slb

Supported

Supported

Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

alb

Supported

Supported

Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Network Load Balancer (NLB)

nlb

Supported

Supported

Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)

gwlb

Supported

Supported

Express Connect

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

Elastic IP Address (EIP)

EIP

vpc

Supported

Supported

EIP

Anycast Elastic IP Address (Anycast EIP)

eipanycast

Supported

Supported

NAT Gateway

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

VPN Gateway

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

Internet Shared Bandwidth

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

Global Accelerator (GA)

-

ga

Supported

Supported

Smart Access Gateway (SAG)

-

smartag

Supported

Supported

Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN)

-

cen

Supported

Supported

PrivateLink

-

privatelink

Supported

Supported

Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone

-

pvtz

Supported

Supported

Cloud Data Transfer (CDT)

-

cdt

Supported

Supported

VPC peering connection

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

IPv6 Gateway

-

vpc

Supported

Supported

O&M and management

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS)

-

arms

Supported

Supported

CloudMonitor

-

cms

Supported

Supported

Intelligent Advisor

-

advisor-intl

Supported

Supported

Cloud Shell

-

cloudshell

Supported

Cloud Config

-

config

Supported

Supported

Logic Composer

-

composer

Supported

Supported

CloudOps Orchestration Service (OOS)

-

oos

Supported

Supported

Cloud Governance Center (CGC)

CGC

governance

Supported

CGC

Service Catalog

servicecatalog

Supported

Supported

Middleware

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS)

-

edas

Supported

Supported

ApsaraMQ

ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ

mq

Supported

Supported

ApsaraMQ

ApsaraMQ for MQTT

mq

Supported

Supported

ApsaraMQ

ApsaraMQ for RabbitMQ

amqp

Supported

Supported

Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) (SMQ)

-

mns

Supported

Supported

ApsaraMQ for Kafka

-

alikafka

Supported

Supported

Application High Availability Service

-

ahas

Supported

Not supported

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM)

-

servicemesh

Supported

Supported

EventBridge

-

eventbridge

Supported

Supported

Media services and CDN

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

CDN

-

cdn

Supported

Supported

ApsaraVideo Media Processing (MPS)

-

mts

Supported

Supported

ApsaraVideo VOD (VOD)

-

vod

Supported

Supported

ApsaraVideo Live

-

live

Supported

Supported

Real-Time Communication

-

rtc

Supported

Supported

Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN)

-

dcdn

Supported

Supported

Edge Security Acceleration (ESA)

-

esa

Supported

Supported

Enterprise applications

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Direct Mail

-

dm

Supported

Supported

API Gateway

-

apigateway

Supported

Supported

Resource Management

Resource Management

resourcemanager

Supported

Supported

Resource Management

Resource Sharing

resourcesharing

Supported

Supported

Resource Management

Tag

tag

Supported

Supported

Resource Management

Resource Center

resourcecenter

Supported

Supported

Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)

BaaS

baas

Supported

Supported

CloudQuotation (CQ)

-

assettech

Supported

Domains and websites

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Alibaba Cloud DNS (DNS)

DNS

alidns

Supported

Supported

DNS

Alibaba Cloud Public DNS

pubdns

Supported

Supported

Domain Names and Websites

-

domain

Supported

Supported

AI

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Intelligent Speech Interaction

Intelligent Speech Interaction

nls

Not supported

Not supported

Platform for AI (PAI)

-

pai

Not supported

Not supported

PAI

-

paiplugin

Supported

Image Search

-

imagesearch

Supported

Supported

Machine Translation

-

alimt

Supported

Supported

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

-

sfm

Not supported

Supported

IoT

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

IoT Platform

-

iot

Supported

Supported

Link IoT Edge

-

iot

Not supported

Not supported

Lindorm

Time Series Database (TSDB)

hitsdb

Supported

Supported

Analytics computing

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

DataWorks

-

dataworks

Supported

Supported

Quick BI

-

-

Not supported

Not supported

DataV

-

datav

Supported

Realtime Compute for Apache Flink

-

-

Not supported

Not supported

Elasticsearch

-

elasticsearch

Supported

Supported

E-MapReduce (EMR)

E-MapReduce

emr

Supported

Supported

Simple Log Service (SLS)

-

log

Supported

Supported

Hologres

-

hologram

Supported

Supported

Developer services

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Alibaba Cloud DevOps

-

rdc

Not supported

Not supported

Managed Service for OpenTelemetry

-

xtrace

Supported

Supported

Security

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Security Center

-

  • yundun-sas

  • yundun-aegis

Supported

Supported

Server Guard

-

yundun-aegis

Supported

Supported

Anti-DDoS

Anti-DDoS

yundun-ddos

Supported

Supported

Anti-DDoS

Anti-DDoS Proxy (Chinese Mainland)

  • yundun-high

  • yundun-ddoscoo

Supported

Supported

Anti-DDoS

Anti-DDoS Proxy (Outside Chinese Mainland)

  • yundun-high

  • yundun-ddoscoo

Supported

Supported

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

WAF

yundun-waf

Supported

Supported

Certificate Management Service (Original SSL Certificate)

-

yundun-cert

Supported

Supported

Cloud Firewall

-

yundun-cloudfirewall

Supported

Supported

Managed Security Service (MSSP)

-

mssp

Supported

Content Moderation

-

yundun-greenweb

Supported

Supported

Bastionhost

Bastionhost

yundun-bastionhost

Supported

Data Security Center (DSC)

-

yundun-sddp

Supported

Supported

Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

IDaaS

yundun-idaas

Supported

Key Management Service (KMS)

-

kms

Supported

Supported

Resource Access Management (RAM)

RAM

  • ram

  • sts

  • ims

Supported

Supported

RAM

CloudSSO

cloudsso

Supported

ActionTrail

-

actiontrail

Supported

Supported

Technical support

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Ticket Management

-

support

Supported

Supported

Marketplace

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Alibaba Cloud Marketplace

-

acm

Supported

Not supported

Other

Service

Sub-service or sub-module

RAM code

Console

API

Expenses and Costs

-

  • bss

  • bssapi

  • efc

Supported

Supported

ICP Filing

-

  • beian

  • bsn

Supported