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Resource Management:Limits

Last Updated:Sep 23, 2026

Lists the limits on resource directories, resource sharing, resource groups, and tags in Resource Management.

Resource directory limits

Item

Upper limit

Adjustable

Remarks

Resource directories per Alibaba Cloud account

1

N/A

Members of a resource directory cannot create their own resource directories.

Root folders per resource directory

1

N/A

N/A

Folders per resource directory

100

Apply for a quota

Excludes the Root folder.

Folder nesting levels

5

N/A

Excludes the Root folder.

Members per resource directory

50

Apply for a quota

N/A

Valid invitations per day

20

Apply for a quota

Excludes accepted invitations.

Validity period of an invitation

14 days

N/A

N/A

Security verification codes per day for binding a phone number to a member

100

N/A

N/A

Custom access control policies per resource directory

1,500

N/A

N/A

Custom access control policies per folder or member

10

Apply for a quota

N/A

Characters per custom access control policy

4,096

N/A

N/A

Member deletions per 30-day window

A 30-calendar-day period starts from the first deletion task. Limits per period:

  • If the Number of members < 100 condition is met, up to 10 members can be deleted.

  • If the 100 ≤ Number of members ≤ 10,000 condition is met, up to 10% of members can be deleted.

  • If the Number of members > 10,000 condition is met, up to 1,000 members can be deleted.

Apply for a quota

N/A

Contacts per resource directory

10

Apply for a quota

N/A

Resource sharing limits

Item

Upper limit

Adjustable

Resource shares per account

1,000

Apply for a quota

Shared resources per account

1,000

Apply for a quota

Resource group limits

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Number of resource groups

30

Apply for a quota

Characters in a resource group identifier

50

N/A

Characters in a resource group name

50

N/A

Number of custom transfer rules

10

N/A

Transfer conditions per custom transfer rule

10

N/A

Tag limits

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Remarks

Tags per resource

20

Apply for a quota

  • The quota varies by resource type. Check adjustability in Quota Center.

  • Approved quota increases take effect within one hour.

  • When increasing the quota for ECS instances, also increase quotas for ECS disks and ECS elastic network interfaces (ENIs), which are created together with instances.

Predefined tags per account

1,000

N/A

N/A

Values per predefined tag key

1,000

N/A

N/A

Tag key

Up to 128 characters. Allows letters, digits, spaces, and these special characters: _ . # / = + - @. Cannot start with aliyun or acs:, or contain http:// or https://.

Note

Tag key constraints may vary by cloud service. Check the specific service documentation.

N/A

N/A

Tag value

Up to 128 characters. Allows letters, digits, spaces, and these special characters: _ . # / = + - @. Cannot start with aliyun or acs:, or contain http:// or https://.

Note

Tag value constraints may vary by cloud service. Check the specific service documentation.

N/A

N/A

Adding tags to resources

Each tag key on a resource can have only one value. Adding a tag with the same key as an existing tag overwrites the existing value.

For example, if a resource has the city:shanghai tag and you add city:newyork, the city:shanghai tag is replaced.

N/A

N/A

Note
  • The number of policies that can be attached to a RAM user, RAM user group, or RAM role is independent of the authorization scope. The policy quota for authorization within a single resource group is the same as the quota for authorization across the entire Alibaba Cloud account. The two quotas are counted separately and do not consume each other.

  • RAM roles whose names start with AliyunReservedSSO are the RAM roles that Cloud Single Sign-On (CloudSSO) uses when it deploys an access configuration. The numbers of custom policies and system policies that can be attached to these RAM roles (access configurations) are centrally configured in CloudSSO. For more information, see Limitations.