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Resource Access Management:CreatePolicyVersion

Last Updated:Jan 28, 2026

Creates a version for a policy.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. 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 supports 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 Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (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 applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • 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

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ram:CreatePolicyVersion

create

*Policy

acs:ram:*:{#accountId}:policy/{#PolicyName}

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

PolicyName

string

No

The name of the policy.

OSS-Administrator

PolicyDocument

string

No

The document of the policy. The document can be up to 6,144 bytes in length.

{"Statement":[{"Action":["oss:*"],"Effect":"Allow","Resource":["acs:oss:*:*:*"]}],"Version":"1"}

SetAsDefault

boolean

No

Specifies whether to set this policy as the default policy. Default value: false.

false

RotateStrategy

string

No

The rotation strategy of the policy. The rotation strategy can be used to delete an early policy version.

Valid values:

  • None: disables the rotation strategy.

  • DeleteOldestNonDefaultVersionWhenLimitExceeded: deletes the earliest non-active version if the number of versions exceeds the limit.

Default value: None.

None

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

PolicyVersion

object

The information about the policy version.

IsDefaultVersion

boolean

Indicates whether the policy version is the default version.

false

PolicyDocument

string

The document of the policy.

{ "Statement": [{ "Action": ["oss:*"], "Effect": "Allow", "Resource": ["acs:oss:*:*:*"]}], "Version": "1"}

VersionId

string

The ID of the policy version.

v3

CreateDate

string

The time when the policy version was created.

2015-01-23T12:33:18Z

RequestId

string

The request ID.

9B34724D-54B0-4A51-B34D-4512372FE1BE

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "IsDefaultVersion": false,
    "PolicyDocument": "{ \"Statement\": [{ \"Action\": [\"oss:*\"], \"Effect\": \"Allow\", \"Resource\": [\"acs:oss:*:*:*\"]}], \"Version\": \"1\"}",
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "CreateDate": "2015-01-23T12:33:18Z"
  },
  "RequestId": "9B34724D-54B0-4A51-B34D-4512372FE1BE"
}

Error response

JSON format

{
    "RequestId": "9B34724D-54B0-4A51-B34D-4512372FE1BE",
    "PolicyVersion": {
        "VersionId": "v3",
        "IsDefaultVersion": false,
        "CreateDate": "2015-01-23T12:33:18Z"
    }
}

Error codes

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.