Enterprise-class Resource Management Scenarios
Create a Directory Structure Based on Your Enterprise Environment
To develop business around the globe, your enterprise must establish branches and departments to resolve issues caused by regional differences. These branches and departments may have different procurement, use, and supervision requirements for cloud resources. In addition, in diversified business environments, enterprises need to start more projects and ensure reasonable investment for each project; centralized and controllable financial supervision;and optimized asset ratios to ensure the projects are successful. Alibaba Cloud Resource Management allows you to create and manage resources through a directory structure based on the needs of your enterprise.
Features
Resource relationship organization by team: You may use directory relationships to organize your teams.
Resource relationship organization by project: You may use directory relationships to configure your projects.
Resource relationship organization by application: You may use directory relationships to manage your application environments.
To develop business around the globe, your enterprise must establish branches and departments to resolve issues caused by regional differences. These branches and departments may have different procurement, use, and supervision requirements for cloud resources. In addition, in diversified business environments, enterprises need to start more projects and ensure reasonable investment for each project; centralized and controllable financial supervision;and optimized asset ratios to ensure the projects are successful. Alibaba Cloud Resource Management allows you to create and manage resources through a directory structure based on the needs of your enterprise.
Features
Resource relationship organization by team: You may use directory relationships to organize your teams.Resource relationship organization by project: You may use directory relationships to configure your projects.Resource relationship organization by application: You may use directory relationships to manage your application environments.
Manage All Alibaba Cloud Accounts and Resource Instances of Your Enterprise in a Centralized Manner
If your enterprise has multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts, you may create a resource directory and add the accounts to preset locations in the resource directory. – allowing you to manage those accounts and the resources within them in a centralized manner.
Features
Quick account creation: You can create accounts in a resource directory, with enterprise information synchronized automatically.
External account invitation: You can consolidate all your enterprise accounts of your into a resource directory.
If your enterprise has multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts, you may create a resource directory and add the accounts to preset locations in the resource directory. – allowing you to manage those accounts and the resources within them in a centralized manner.
Features
Quick account creation: You can create accounts in a resource directory, with enterprise information synchronized automatically.External account invitation: You can consolidate all your enterprise accounts of your into a resource directory.
Centralize Management of Enterprise Bills and Invoices
After you place the accounts in your enterprise in preset locations in a resource directory, you may use one or more of the accounts as payment accounts to unify settlement. You may also grant permissions to specific users to manage bills for all accounts based on financial management requirements.
Features
Centralized settlement: You can set enterprise payment accounts to pay for all accounts in a resource directory.
Centralized billing: You can view and manage the bills of all your enterprise accounts in a central location.
Centralized invoicing: You can centrally manage all invoices for your enterprise.
After you place the accounts in your enterprise in preset locations in a resource directory, you may use one or more of the accounts as payment accounts to unify settlement. You may also grant permissions to specific users to manage bills for all accounts based on financial management requirements.
Features
Centralized settlement: You can set enterprise payment accounts to pay for all accounts in a resource directory.Centralized billing: You can view and manage the bills of all your enterprise accounts in a central location. Centralized invoicing: You can centrally manage all invoices for your enterprise.
Use a Resource Structure to Meet Permission and Compliance Requirements
You may set different resource access rules and control policies for different directories, accounts, or resource groups in your enterprise, ensuring authorized users in your enterprise can access resources securely based on preset rules.
Features
Single-point permission configuration: You can configure access permissions for users and resources to manage access security in a centralized manner.
Global control policy setting: You can implement top-level control fromin your enterprise to prevent compliance risks.
You may set different resource access rules and control policies for different directories, accounts, or resource groups in your enterprise, ensuring authorized users in your enterprise can access resources securely based on preset rules.
Features
Single-point permission configuration: You can configure access permissions for users and resources to manage access security in a centralized manner.Global control policy setting: You can implement top-level control fromin your enterprise to prevent compliance risks.
Integrate Various Enterprise-class Alibaba Cloud Services
Resource directories allow integration with more enterprise-class services. The enterprise perspective is different from the individual perspective. Enterprises need a top-down overview of global resource monitoring, configuration audit, and security risk control. Based on the API of resource directories, a large number of Alibaba Cloud applications can provide enterprises with standard and consistent services.
Features
Enterprise-class resource configuration auditing: Cloud Config is integrated to provide global resource auditing for enterprises.
Enterprise-class log tracking: ActionTrail is integrated to provide comprehensive control over log changes of all accounts.
More enterprise-class services: More services will be integrated soon.
Resource directories allow integration with more enterprise-class services. The enterprise perspective is different from the individual perspective. Enterprises need a top-down overview of global resource monitoring, configuration audit, and security risk control. Based on the API of resource directories, a large number of Alibaba Cloud applications can provide enterprises with standard and consistent services.
Features
Enterprise-class resource configuration auditing: Cloud Config is integrated to provide global resource auditing for enterprises.Enterprise-class log tracking: ActionTrail is integrated to provide comprehensive control over log changes of all accounts.More enterprise-class services: More services will be integrated soon.
Benefits
Flexible and Convenient Construction of Enterprise Resource Trees
Under the root node of a resource directory, you can use folders, accounts, and resource groups to build the resource relationships required by your business from top to bottom. This way, you can manage all resources of your enterprise in a clear multi-level structure.
Quick Member Account Creation
In a resource directory, you can create a resource account in seconds and use it as a container for a project, department, or application. You can also add existing Alibaba Cloud accounts to a resource directory to ensure that all your enterprise resources are managed within the resource directory.
Cost Management for Cloud Resources from an Enterprise Perspective
You may configure a dedicated financial account to pay for all accounts within an organization or unit and manage their bills and use folders, accounts, or resource groups to implement separate bill management across different dimensions in your enterprise.
Integration with Various Enterprise-class Services
Alibaba Cloud Resource Management offers a mid-end for integrating with enterprise-class Alibaba Cloud services, based on the open organizational structure to provide enterprise IT governance capabilities.
