To use Cloud Governance Center, you must activate the service first. After you activate Cloud Governance Center, you can use the service for free.
Background information
You can use an Alibaba Cloud account that passes real-name verification for enterprises or individuals to activate Cloud Governance Center. An Alibaba Cloud account that passes real-name verification for enterprises is a corporate account. An Alibaba Cloud account that passes real-name verification for individuals is a personal account. A corporate account can use all features of Cloud Governance Center. A personal account can use only the governance maturity check feature.
We recommend that you use a Resource Access Management (RAM) user that belongs to a corporate or personal account to perform relevant operations. Therefore, you must grant the AdministratorAccess permission to the RAM user. This prevents operation failures due to insufficient permissions. For more information, see Grant permissions to a RAM user.
Cloud Governance Center does not support Alibaba Finance Cloud and Alibaba Gov Cloud.
Procedure
Log on to the Cloud Governance Center console.
On the Cloud Governance Center page, click Activate Now.
On the page that appears, activate the service.
Select a region.
If your business runs in the Chinese mainland, we recommend that you select the China (Hangzhou) region.
If your business runs in the China (Hong Kong) region, China (Macao) region, China (Taiwan) region, or countries or regions outside the Chinese mainland, we recommend that you select the Singapore region.
NoteThe selected region is used only to deploy a landing zone, including information such as a deployment template and deployment records. The resources that you want to manage in Cloud Governance Center, such as resource directories, identities and permissions, and cloud resources, are not limited in this region. The region cannot be changed after Cloud Governance Center is activated.
Click Create Service-Linked Role to create a service-linked role named AliyunServiceRoleForGovernance.
Cloud Governance Center uses this role to access your resources such as resource directories. The role has multiple permissions such as those required to enable a resource directory and manage the directory structure. You can use the role to establish and maintain an appropriate resource structure for your enterprise. For more information, see the "AliyunServiceRoleForGovernance" section of the Service-linked roles in Cloud Governance Center topic.
Read and agree to Cloud Governance Center Terms of Service.
Click Activate Now.