This topic describes the release notes for Resource Management and provides links to the relevant references.
July 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | An internal message is sent when you invite an account to join your resource directory. | 2023-07 | All regions | |
Resource Sharing | Default quotas for resource sharing are increased.
| 2023-07 | All regions | |
Resource Group | The Network Load Balancer (NLB) service can work with Resource Group. | 2023-07 | All regions |
June 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | The trusted service Managed Service for Prometheus is supported. | 2023-06 | All regions | Create a global aggregation instance across Alibaba Cloud accounts |
Resource Sharing | Elastic Compute Service (ECS) snapshots can be shared. | 2023-06 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), and Singapore | |
Resource Center | Resource Center can be deactivated. | 2023-06 | All regions |
May 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Sharing | Key Management Service (KMS) instances can be shared. | 2023-05 | All regions |
April 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | Contacts can be configured for members. Resource Management is integrated with Alibaba Cloud Message Center. This way, you can create and manage contacts for members in your resource directory in a centralized manner by using the management account of the resource directory, and bind contacts to a specified member or folder in the resource directory or to the entire resource directory. | 2023-04 | All regions | |
The following trusted services are supported: Resource Center and Message Center. | 2023-04 | All regions | ||
Resource-level RAM authorization is supported. | 2023-04 | All regions | ||
Resource Center | More services and resource types are supported. | 2023-04 | All regions |
March 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | The Transfer Associated Resources feature is introduced. | 2023-03 | All regions | |
Resource Directory | The silence period of member deletion is changed from a fixed period (45 days) to a non-fixed period (2 days to 35 days). The silence period depends on the types of resources within the member that you want to delete. | 2023-03 | All regions | |
Resource Directory | Examples of custom access control policies that are used to prohibit resource sharing outside a resource directory are added. | 2023-03 | All regions |
February 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Center | Resource Center is released for the first time. Resource Center allows you to view resources across accounts, services, or regions. This helps you have a global view of resources within your Alibaba Cloud accounts. Resource Center also allows you to search for resources by region, service, resource type, resource ID, resource name, or tag. After you find the resource that you want to manage, you can go to the corresponding service console with one click and perform subsequent operations. Resource Center facilitates resource searches and management. | 2023-02 | All regions | |
Resource Directory | Resource Directory API of a new version is released. Different endpoints are used for the API at the China site (aliyun.com) and the international site (alibabacloud.com). | 2023-02 | All regions | |
Tag | Tag compliance enforcement for resources to which no tags are added or tags not defined in a tag policy are added is in invitational preview. | 2023-02 | All regions |
January 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | A resource group in the Deleting state does not occupy your resource group quota. | 2023-01 | All regions | |
Resource Directory | Resellers can use Resource Directory to create and manage accounts at the international site (alibabacloud.com). | 2023-01 | All regions |
December 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | The account name (secure email address) of a member can be changed. | 2022-12 | All regions | |
Resource Sharing | IP address pools can be shared. | 2022-12 | All regions | |
Resource Sharing | Resource sharing-related permissions are added. Each type of resource that supports resource sharing has at least one resource sharing-related permission. The permission defines the operations that principals can perform on this type of resource in a resource share. | 2022-12 | All regions | |
Resource Group | The following services can work with Resource Group: Logic Composer, Domains, and Express Connect. | 2022-12 | All regions |
November 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | The following services can work with Resource Group: PrivateLink, Data Transmission Service (DTS), Global Accelerator (GA), and DataWorks. | 2022-11 | All regions | |
Tag | Tag API operations are supported by 21 services, such as ApsaraDB for Cassandra, DataV, DataWorks, Enterprise Distributed Application Service (EDAS), and WUYING Workspace. | 2022-11 | All regions |
October 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | The following services can work with Resource Group: AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL, Container Registry, and Microservices Engine (MSE). | 2022-10 | All regions |
September 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | The trusted service Quota Center is supported. | 2022-09 | All regions |
August 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | The deletion feature for members of the resource account type is in invitational preview. | 2022-08 | All regions |
July 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | Tags can be added to members in a resource directory. | 2022-07 | All regions | |
Tag | Post-detection can be performed for the specified types of resources. | 2022-07 | All regions | |
Resource Sharing | Resources can be shared with an Alibaba Cloud account that is not the management account or a member of a resource directory. | 2022-07 | All regions | |
Virtual private cloud (VPC) prefix lists can be shared. | 2022-07 | All regions |
June 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Tag | API operations related to tag policies are provided. | 2022-06 | All regions | |
A tag policy can be used to check the tag compliance of resources within the management account of a resource directory. | 2022-06 | All regions | ||
A member of a resource directory can be used to enable the Tag Policy feature that is in single-account mode. | 2022-06 | All regions | ||
The ListSupportResourceTypes API operation is added to query the resource types supported by tags and tag-related capability items. | 2022-06 | All regions |
May 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Tag | The ListResourcesByTag API operation is added to query resources based on tags. | 2022-05 | All regions |
April 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | Allow statements are supported in access control policies. | 2022-04 | All regions | |
The trusted service Service Catalog is supported. | 2022-04 | All regions | ||
The trusted service Cloud Config that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported. | 2022-04 | All regions | ||
Resource Sharing | Product portfolios in Service Catalog can be shared. | 2022-04 | All regions | |
Resource Group | On the Resources tab of the details page of a resource group in the Resource Management console, tags can be added to the resources in the resource group. This way, the resources can be managed by resource group or tag in a centralized manner. | 2022-04 | All regions | |
The ResourceGroupIds request parameter is added to the ListResourceGroups API operation. You can use this parameter to specify multiple resource group IDs at a time. This way, you can call the ListResourceGroups API operation to query the information of multiple resource groups at a time. | 2022-04 | All regions | ||
Resource Meta Center (RMC) | On the My Resource page of the Resource Management console, tags can be added to the resources listed on this page. This way, the resources can be managed by resource group or tag in a centralized manner. | 2022-04 | All regions | |
Tag | A tag policy can be used to enable resources in a resource group to automatically inherit tags from the resource group. | 2022-04 | All regions | |
createdby tags are supported by the following Alibaba Cloud services: VPN Gateway, Internet Shared Bandwidth, Bastionhost, Anti-DDoS Origin, and Alibaba Cloud DNS. | 2022-04 | All regions |
March 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Tag | The Tag Policy feature is supported. Tag policies are used to standardize the tags that are added to resources. You can use a tag policy to define the tags that must be added to your resources. Compliant tags can help you improve the efficiency in aspects such as cost allocation by tag and automated O&M. Tag policies support the single-account mode and multi-account mode. The two modes can meet your business requirements for tag standardization management in different stages. | 2022-03 | All regions | |
RMC | The ListResourceRelationships API operation is added to query the resources that are associated with a specified resource. | 2022-03 | All regions | |
The resources returned by the SearchResources API operation can be sorted based on the creation time of the resources. | 2022-03 | All regions |
February 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | Tags can be added to resource groups. | 2022-02 | All regions |
January 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Sharing | Templates in Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) can be shared. | 2022-01 | All regions | |
Resource Group | The application group feature provided by CloudMonitor is integrated into the Resource Group service. | 2022-01 | All regions | |
createdby tag | createdby tags are supported by the following types of resources:
| 2022-01 | All regions |
December 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Enabling of a resource directory | The process of enabling a resource directory is optimized. A new account can be created to enable a resource directory and used as the management account of the resource directory. | 2021-12 | All regions | |
Member management for Resource Directory | Mobile phone numbers can be bound to resource accounts for security purposes. The mobile phone numbers are used to verify the identities of users who use resource accounts and receive notifications from some Alibaba Cloud services. | 2021-12 | All regions | |
The feature for switching a member type is optimized in the following aspects:
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The process of accepting an invitation to join a resource directory is optimized in the following aspects: Only invitees that pass enterprise real-name verification are allowed to accept invitations, and the user interface provided in the Resource Management console is more user-friendly. | ||||
Resource Group | Resource groups are supported by the following Alibaba Cloud services:
| 2021-12 | All regions | |
The search feature is supported for resources that you want to move to a resource group when you move the resources across resource groups. | ||||
Tag | createdby tags are changed in the following aspects:
| 2021-12 | All regions | |
A public template for tag inheritance is provided in the OOS console. You can use the template to enable multiple resources related to an ECS instance to inherit the tags added to the ECS instance. The resources are disk, elastic network interface (ENI), snapshot, and elastic IP address (EIP). | Use OOS to inherit tags from ECS instances for the resources of the ECS instances at a time |
November 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | Resource search in resource groups is optimized. You can search for resources by resource name, IP address, or tag. | 2021-11 | All regions | |
Resource search across resource groups is supported. You can search for resources across resource groups by resource ID, resource name, IP address, or tag. | ||||
The ListResourceGroups API operation can be used to query a resource group by the ID, identifier, or display name of the resource group. | ||||
A resource list can be exported on the My Resource page of the Resource Management console. | ||||
RMC | More Alibaba Cloud services and resources are supported. A total of 17 Alibaba Cloud services and 25 types of resources are supported. | 2021-11 | All regions | |
The SearchResources API operation is added to query the resources that can be accessed within the current account. | ||||
createdby tag | createdby tags are a type of system tag that is generated by Alibaba Cloud and automatically added to resources. This type of tag is used to identify the creators of resources. createdby tags can help you analyze costs and bills and manage the costs of resources in an efficient manner. 21 Alibaba Cloud services support createdby tags. | 2021-11 | All regions | |
Resource Sharing | Resource sharing within a resource directory is supported. You can share your resources with all members in your resource directory, all members in a specific folder in your resource directory, or a specific member in your resource directory only after you enable resource sharing. | 2021-11 | All regions |
October 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Trusted service for Resource Directory | The trusted service Security Center that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported. | 2021-10 | All regions | |
Resource Group | The API operation that is used to move multiple resources to a resource group at a time is added. This API operation allows you to move multiple resources that reside in different regions or belong to different services or resource groups to the same resource group at a time. | 2021-10 | All regions |
September 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Trusted service for Resource Directory | The following trusted services are supported:
| 2021-09 | All regions | |
The trusted service ActionTrail that supports delegated administrator accounts is supported. | ||||
Preset tag | Preset tags are visible in all Alibaba Cloud regions. | 2021-09 | All regions | |
The following method can be used to create a preset tag: Use an Excel file to import a preset tag. | ||||
The resources to which a preset tag is added can be exported as a CSV file. | ||||
Custom tag | The resources to which a custom tag is added can be exported as a CSV file. | 2021-09 | All regions | Export resources to which a custom tag is added in a resource group |
August 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Trusted service for Resource Directory | The trusted service CloudSSO is supported. | 2021-08 | China (Shanghai) and US (Silicon Valley) | |
Resource Group | The resource group deletion feature is optimized in the following aspects:
| 2021-08 | All regions | |
All resources in a resource group can be exported as a CSV file. | 2021-08 | All regions |
May 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Trusted service for Resource Directory | The trusted service Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN) is supported. | 2021-05 | All regions |
April 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Trusted service for Resource Directory | Trusted services refer to the Alibaba Cloud services that are integrated with the Resource Directory service. You can use the management account of your resource directory to complete organization-based management tasks in trusted services. This simplifies the unified management of Alibaba Cloud services. | 2021-04 | All regions | |
The management account of a resource directory can be used to specify a member in the resource directory as a delegated administrator account of a trusted service. After a member is specified as a delegated administrator account of a trusted service, the member can be used to access information about the resource directory in the trusted service. The information includes the structure and members of the resource directory. The member can also be used to manage business within the resource directory. | 2021-04 | All regions | ||
The following trusted services are supported:
| 2021-04 | All regions |
March 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Control Policy for Resource Directory | The Control Policy feature provided by the Resource Directory service allows you to manage the permission boundaries of the folders or members in a resource directory in a centralized manner. This feature is implemented based on the resource directory. You can use this feature to develop common or dedicated rules for access control. The Control Policy feature does not grant permissions but only defines permission boundaries. Before you use an account that is a member of your resource directory to access resources, you must grant the required permissions to the account by using the Resource Access Management (RAM) service. | 2021-03 | All regions | |
Member management for Resource Directory | The member management feature for Resource Directory is optimized in the following aspects:
| 2021-03 | All regions |
December 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Sharing | Resource Sharing allows you to share the resources of your account with other accounts. | 2020-12 | All regions |
November 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Account invitation for Resource Directory | You can invite Alibaba Cloud accounts to join your resource directory for centralized management. | 2019-11 | All regions | Invite an Alibaba Cloud account to join a resource directory |
September 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Directory | Resource Directory allows you to quickly create an organizational structure for resources based on your business or business ecosystem. You can add the accounts used by your enterprise to the structure to form a hierarchy for the accounts and resources. | 2019-09 | All regions |
May 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource Group | Resource Group allows you to sort resources owned by your Alibaba Cloud account. This simplifies the resource and permission management of your Alibaba Cloud account. | 2019-05 | All regions |