Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM)
Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM) is a comprehensive identity and access management service that helps you securely control access to your Alibaba Cloud resources. It enables fine-grained authorization by allowing you to create and manage users, user groups, and roles, and to define…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2014
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud RAM was created to address the critical problem of securely managing access to cloud resources at scale. Before RAM, organizations struggled with granularly controlling who could access what resources within a growing cloud environment, leading to potential security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and operational overhead due to manual and inconsistent access policies. RAM provided a centralized, programmatic way to define and enforce permissions, ensuring that users and applications only had the necessary access.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
- Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
- Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Container Service (ACK)
- Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for RDS
- Alibaba Cloud SDKs (Java, Python, Go, Node.js)
- Terraform
- Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
- Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Ansible
Notable users
- Enterprises leveraging Alibaba Cloud for their infrastructure and applications (across various industries like e-commerce, finance, manufacturing, media)
- Alibaba Group