Configure equity asset sharing

This topic describes the equity asset sharing feature and how to use the feature.

Equity asset sharing

Equity assets: Equity assets are purchased by you or distributed by Alibaba Cloud through marketing activities to offset the fees of cloud resources.

Equity asset sharing: An enterprise administrator can share equity assets of the management account to other member accounts.

Equity asset that can be shared	Maximum number of accounts
Savings plans	100
Reserved instances	100
Storage capacity units (SCUs)	100
Coupons	100

Note

To use the equity asset sharing feature, you must activate Enterprise Account Center for your enterprise and invite other member accounts of the enterprise to form an account-organization relationship. Based on this relationship, you can share the equity assets of your Alibaba Cloud account with other member accounts in the organization.
The administrator account can share equity assets with multiple member accounts, but a member account cannot share its equity assets with other member accounts.

The system supports two sharing methods: manual sharing and automatic sharing.

Configure manual sharing

Configure sharing by specific asset ID: You can configure the sharing range of an asset ID, whether by account or organization. After you change the configuration, the sharing range takes effect only for the asset ID.

On the Account Sharing page, click the Equity Asset Sharing tab. On this tab, find the asset that you want to share and click Edit in the Actions column.
In the panel that appears, set the sharing type to Share with Account or Share with Organization.
- Share with Organization: If you select this option, the actual range of accounts with which assets can be shared is automatically adjusted based on the changes of accounts in the organization.
  Note
  If you set the sharing type to Share with Organization, the actual range of accounts with which assets can be shared is automatically adjusted based on the changes of accounts in the organization.
  If a new account is added to an organization and the maximum number of accounts that can share the assets is not exceeded, the account can share the assets. If an account is removed from the organization, the account can no longer share the assets.
  After an account is moved to another organization, the automatic sharing relationship is updated within one minute.
  Savings plans of the trial edition cannot be shared.
- Share with Account: You can specify accounts with which the assets are shared. The account range is not automatically changed unless you manually adjust it.
Select the accounts or organizations with which you want to share the assets. Then, click OK.

Configure automatic sharing

Configure automatic sharing rules based on asset types: After automatic sharing rules are configured, assets of the specified types are automatically shared to the specified sharing ranges based on the configured rules.

On the Account Sharing page, click the Equity Asset Sharing tab. On this tab, click Configure Automatic Sharing.
In the Configure Automatic Sharing panel, turn on the switches corresponding to the assets for which you want to configure automatic sharing, select a sharing type, specify a sharing range, and then click OK.
Note
- After a newly purchased asset takes effect, the system automatically shares the asset with an organization or account based on the configured automatic sharing rule within 10 minutes.
- If you set the sharing type to Share with Organization, the actual range of accounts with which assets can be shared is automatically adjusted based on the changes of accounts in the organization.
- If a new account is added to an organization and the maximum number of accounts that can share the assets is not exceeded, the account can share the assets. If an account is removed from the organization, the account can no longer share the assets.
- After an account is moved to another organization, the automatic sharing relationship is updated within one minute.
- Savings plans of the trial edition cannot be shared.

Query the sharing status of assets

On the Equity Asset Sharing tab, select a member account from the Enterprise/Organization/Account drop-down list by using the administrator account. You can query the equity assets of the member account. You can also query the sharing status of equity assets by asset ID.

Asset Owner Account: the Alibaba Cloud account to which the asset belongs.
Asset ID: the unique ID of the asset.
Asset Type: Savings plans, reserved instances, storage capacity units, and coupons are supported. You can click the icon to filter asset types.
Asset Status: the status of the asset, which is valid or invalid. If the status of an asset is invalid, the member account to which the asset is shared cannot use the asset to offset fees.
Share Status: indicates whether the asset ID is shared or not shared.
Sharing Scope: the sharing scope of the asset, such as a list of accounts, or a list of organizations.
Operator: the last operator who modified the asset sharing settings. The corresponding Alibaba Cloud account is displayed.
Last Operation Time: the time when the last operation was performed.
Actions: You can query the sharing details of an asset, edit the sharing settings of an asset, or cancel the sharing of an asset.