This topic describes how to create a resource group. You can use resource groups to manage your resources by department or project.
Prerequisites
An Alibaba Cloud account or a RAM identity (RAM user or RAM role) that has the permissions to create resource groups is prepared.
If you create a resource group by using a RAM identity, the RAM identity is automatically granted the AdministratorAccess permission on the resource group. This indicates that the RAM identity becomes the administrator of the resource group and can be used to create and manage resources in the resource group. If you do not require this feature, you can disable it. For more information, see Disable the Use Creator as Administrator feature.
Procedure
Log on to the Resource Management console.
On the Resource Group page, click Create Resource Group.
On the Create Resource Group page, configure Resource Group Identifier and Resource Group Name and click OK.
After the preceding operations are complete, the resource group is in the Creating state. Wait for about 3 seconds and click the
button. If the state of the resource group changes to Available, the resource group is successfully created.
What to do next
After a resource group is created, you can create resources in the resource group or transfer existing resources to the resource group. For more information, see Purchase resources for a resource group and Transfer resources across resource groups.
After you create resources in resource groups or transfer resources to resource groups, you can grant RAM identities within your Alibaba Cloud account the permissions on different resource groups. For more information, see Add RAM authorization.