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Cloud Architect Design Tools:CADT system policies overview

Last Updated:Mar 11, 2026

CADT system policies

Cloud Architect Design Tools (CADT) supports three system policies. The following table describes the policies.

CADT system policy

Description

AliyunCADTReadOnlyAccess

Permissions to manage CADT with read-only access.

AliyunCADTImportAccess

Permissions to discover and import resources using CADT.

AliyunCADTFullAccess

Permissions to manage CADT.

CADT is a service for cloud product configuration and deployment. These policies are typically used with the system policies of other products to perform operations management on resources.

Permission

Description

System policy configuration

Document

Read-only permission

Grants read-only access to CADT applications and Alibaba Cloud resources. This permission lets you view applications and graphs in CADT, and view information such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) IP addresses, hostnames, and ApsaraDB RDS database addresses for daily development and testing.

  • AliyunCADTReadOnlyAccess

  • Read-only access permissions for required products

Instructions for read-only access

Import permission

Lets you use CADT to discover resources on Alibaba Cloud, create graphs, and create applications. This permission also lets you create applications, configure resources, import existing resources, validate resources, perform pricing, and view reports in CADT. You cannot deploy resources with this permission.

  • AliyunCADTImportAccess

  • AliyunConfigFullAccess

  • Read-only access permissions for required products

Instructions for import access

Management permission

Grants full management permissions for CADT and its corresponding resources.

  • AliyunCADTFullAccess

  • AliyunConfigFullAccess

  • AliyunResourceDirectoryReadOnlyAccess

  • AliyunQuotasReadOnlyAccess

  • AliyunRAMReadOnlyAccess

  • AliyunBSSRefundAccess

  • Management permissions for required products

Instructions for management access

Preparations

Create a CADT test application

For testing purposes, use your Alibaba Cloud account to deploy a simple application that consists of an ECS instance and an elastic IP address (EIP) using CADT. Name the application CADT-Test. For more information, see Best practice for creating a simple application with Cloud Architect Design Tools. If you already have an application, skip this step.image

Create a RAM test user

  1. Log on to the Resource Access Management (RAM) console.

  2. Create a test user named `cadt-user`. For more information, see Create a RAM userCreate a RAM user.image