RAM authorization - ActionTrail - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Resource Access Management (RAM) is a service provided by Alibaba Cloud to manage user identities and resource access permissions. Using RAM helps you avoid sharing your Alibaba Cloud account keys with other users and allows you to grant users the least privilege access. RAM uses permission policies to define authorizations. This topic describes the general structure of a RAM policy, and the policy statement elements (Action, Resource, and Condition) defined by ActionTrail for RAM permission policies. The RAM code (RamCode) for ActionTrail is actiontrail , and the supported authorization granularity is OPERATION .

General structure of a policy

Permission policies support JSON format with the following general structure:

{
  "Version": "1",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "<Effect>",
      "Action": "<Action>",
      "Resource": "<Resource>",
      "Condition": {
        "<Condition_operator>": {
          "<Condition_key>": [
            "<Condition_value>"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

The following list describes the fields in the policy:

Version: Specifies the policy version number. It is fixed at 1.
Statement:
- Effect: Specifies the authorization result. Valid values: Allow and Deny.
- Action: Specifies one or more operations that are allowed or denied.
- Resource: Specifies the specific objects affected by the operations. You can use Alibaba Cloud Resource Names (ARNs) to describe specific resources.
- Condition: Specifies the conditions for the authorization to take effect. This field is optional.
  - Condition operator: Specifies the conditional operators. Different types of conditions support different conditional operators.
  - Condition_key: Specifies the condition keys.
  - Condition_value: Specifies the condition values.

Action

The following table lists the actions defined by ActionTrail. The table's columns are detailed below:

Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.
API: The API that you can call to perform the action.
Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.
Resource type: The type of the resource that support authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.
- For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding ARN in the Resource element of the policy.
- For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.
Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys that are applicable across all RAM-integrated services. For more information, see Common condition keys.
Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action	API	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Dependent action
actiontrail:GetAccessKeyLastUsedEvents	GetAccessKeyLastUsedEvents	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:DeleteAdvancedQueryHistory	DeleteAdvancedQueryHistory	delete	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:CreateDeliveryHistoryJob	CreateDeliveryHistoryJob	create	HistoryDeliveryJob `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/`	None	None
actiontrail:DeleteDeliveryHistoryJob	DeleteDeliveryHistoryJob	delete	*HistoryDeliveryJob `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/{#HistoryDeliveryJobId}`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeSearchTemplates	DescribeSearchTemplates	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:StartLogging	StartLogging	update	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:UpdateGlobalEventsStorageRegion	UpdateGlobalEventsStorageRegion	update	ActionTrailVirtual `acs:actiontrail::{#accountId}:actiontrailvirtual/{#ActionTrailVirtualId}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetGovernanceMetrics	GetGovernanceMetrics	get	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:ListDeliveryHistoryJobs	ListDeliveryHistoryJobs	get	HistoryDeliveryJob `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeTrails	DescribeTrails	get	Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeUserLogCount	DescribeUserLogCount	none	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:CreateAdvancedQueryHistory	CreateAdvancedQueryHistory	create	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:EnableInsight	EnableInsight	update	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:StopLogging	StopLogging	update	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetAdvancedQueryTemplate	GetAdvancedQueryTemplate	get	*AdvancedQueryTemplate `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/{#TemplateId}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetGlobalEventsStorageRegion	GetGlobalEventsStorageRegion	get	ActionTrailVirtual `acs:actiontrail::{#accountId}:actiontrailvirtual/{#ActionTrailVirtualId}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetAccessKeyLastUsedProducts	GetAccessKeyLastUsedProducts	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:GetAccessKeyLastUsedInfo	GetAccessKeyLastUsedInfo	get	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:GetTrailStatus	GetTrailStatus	get	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetDeliveryHistoryJob	GetDeliveryHistoryJob	get	*HistoryDeliveryJob `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/{#HistoryDeliveryJobId}`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeScenes	DescribeScenes	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:GetDataEventSelector	GetDataEventSelector	get	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:PutDataEventSelector	PutDataEventSelector	create	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:LookupEvents	LookupEvents	get	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:DeleteAdvancedQueryTemplate	DeleteAdvancedQueryTemplate	delete	*AdvancedQueryTemplate `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/{#TemplateId}`	None	None
actiontrail:DeleteTrail	DeleteTrail	delete	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:UpdateTrail	UpdateTrail	update	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:GetAccessKeyLastUsedResources	GetAccessKeyLastUsedResources	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeAdvancedQueryTemplate	DescribeAdvancedQueryTemplate	list	AdvancedQueryTemplate `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeResourceLifeCycleEvents	DescribeResourceLifeCycleEvents	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:DeleteDataEventSelector	DeleteDataEventSelector	create	*Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName}`	None	None
actiontrail:CreateAdvancedQueryTemplate	CreateAdvancedQueryTemplate	create	AdvancedQueryTemplate `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/`	None	None
actiontrail:ListDataEventSelectors	ListDataEventSelectors	get	Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/`	None	None
actiontrail:GetAccessKeyLastUsedIps	GetAccessKeyLastUsedIps	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:CreateTrail	CreateTrail	create	Trail `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/`	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeUserAlertCount	DescribeUserAlertCount	none	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:ListDataEventServices	ListDataEventServices	get	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:DescribeAdvancedQueryHistory	DescribeAdvancedQueryHistory	list	All Resource ``	None	None
actiontrail:UpdateAdvancedQueryTemplate	UpdateAdvancedQueryTemplate	update	*AdvancedQueryTemplate `acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/{#TemplateId}`	None	None

Resource

The following table lists the resources defined by ActionTrail. Specify them in the Resource element of RAM policy statements to grant permissions for specific operations. They are uniquely identified by ARNs. Format: acs:{#ramcode}:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:{#resourceType}:

acs: The initialism of Alibaba Cloud service, which indicates the public cloud of Alibaba Cloud.
{#ramcode}: The code used in RAM to indicate an Alibaba Cloud service.
{#regionId}: The region ID. If the resource covers all regions, set it to an asterisk (*).
{#accountId}: The ID of the Alibaba Cloud account. If the resource covers all Alibaba Cloud accounts, set it to an asterisk (*).
{#resourceType}: The service-defined resource identifier. It supports a hierarchical structure, which is similar to a file path. If the statement covers global resources, set it to an asterisk (*).

Resource type	ARN
HistoryDeliveryJob	acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/* acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:historydeliveryjob/{#HistoryDeliveryJobId}
Trail	acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/{#TrailName} acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:trail/*
ActionTrailVirtual	acs:actiontrail:*:{#accountId}:actiontrailvirtual/{#ActionTrailVirtualId}
AdvancedQueryTemplate	acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/{#TemplateId} acs:actiontrail:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:advancedquerytemplate/*

Condition

ActionTrail does not define product-level condition keys. However, you can use Alibaba Cloud common condition keys for access control. For more information, see Common condition keys.

How to create custom RAM policies?

You can create custom policies and grant them to RAM users, RAM user groups, or RAM roles. For instructions, see: