RAM authorization - Database Backup

Resource Access Management (RAM) is a service provided by Alibaba Cloud to manage user identities and resource access permissions. You can use RAM to prevent RAM users from sharing the AccessKey pairs of your Alibaba Cloud account. You can also use RAM to grant minimum permissions to RAM users. RAM uses policies to define permissions.

This topic describes the elements, such as Action, Resource, and Condition, which are defined by DBS. You can use the elements to create policies in RAM. The code (RamCode) in RAM that is used to indicate DBS is dbs. You can grant permissions on DBS at the RESOURCE.

General structure of a policy

Policies can be stored as JSON files. The following code provides an example on the general structure of a policy:

{
  "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:

Effect: specifies the authorization effect. Valid values: Allow, Deny.
Action: specifies one or more API operations that are allowed or denied. For more information, see the Action section of this topic.
Resource: specifies one or more resources to which the policy applies. You can use an Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) to specify a resource. For more information, see the Resource section of this topic.
Condition: specifies one or more conditions that are required for the policy to take effect. This is an optional field. For more information, see the Condition section of this topic.
- Condition_operator: specifies the conditional operators. Different types of conditions support different conditional operators. For more information, see Policy elements.
- Condition_key: specifies the condition keys.
- Condition_value: specifies the condition values.

Action

DBS defines the values that you can use in the Action element of a policy statement. The following table describes the values.

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
API operation: the API operation that you can call to perform the operation.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition key: the condition keys that are defined by the Alibaba Cloud service. The Condition key column does not list the common condition keys that are defined by Alibaba Cloud. For more information about the common condition keys, see Generic Condition Keyword.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Actions	API operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
dbs:ConfigureBackupPlan	ConfigureBackupPlan	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:CreateFullBackupSetDownload	CreateFullBackupSetDownload	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyStorageStrategy	ModifyStorageStrategy	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribePreCheckProgressList	DescribePreCheckProgressList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeDLAService	DescribeDLAService	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeRestoreRangeInfo	DescribeRestoreRangeInfo	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:RenewBackupPlan	RenewBackupPlan	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:CreateGetDBListFromAgentTask	CreateGetDBListFromAgentTask	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyBackupSetDownloadRules	ModifyBackupSetDownloadRules	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyBackupObjects	ModifyBackupObjects	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:CreateIncrementBackupSetDownload	CreateIncrementBackupSetDownload	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeNodeCidrList	DescribeNodeCidrList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeBackupSetDownloadTaskList	DescribeBackupSetDownloadTaskList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyBackupSourceEndpoint	ModifyBackupSourceEndpoint	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeIncrementBackupList	DescribeIncrementBackupList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeRestoreTaskList	DescribeRestoreTaskList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:StartRestoreTask	StartRestoreTask	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:EnableBackupLog	EnableBackupLog	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:CreateAndStartBackupPlan	CreateAndStartBackupPlan	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeRegions	DescribeRegions	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeBackupPlanBilling	DescribeBackupPlanBilling	get	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:UpgradeBackupPlan	UpgradeBackupPlan	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:ReleaseBackupPlan	ReleaseBackupPlan	delete	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:StopBackupPlan	StopBackupPlan	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:DescribeBackupPlanList	DescribeBackupPlanList	get	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:DescribeBackupGatewayList	DescribeBackupGatewayList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeJobErrorCode	DescribeJobErrorCode	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:StartBackupPlan	StartBackupPlan	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None
dbs:GetDBListFromAgent	GetDBListFromAgent	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyBackupStrategy	ModifyBackupStrategy	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:CreateBackupPlan	CreateBackupPlan	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:InitializeDbsServiceLinkedRole	InitializeDbsServiceLinkedRole	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DisableBackupLog	DisableBackupLog	update	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:CreateRestoreTask	CreateRestoreTask	create	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:DescribeFullBackupList	DescribeFullBackupList	get	All Resources *	None	None
dbs:ModifyBackupPlanName	ModifyBackupPlanName	update	BackupPlan acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}	None	None

Resource

DBS defines the values that you can use in the Resource. You can attach the policy to a RAM user or a RAM role so that the RAM user or the RAM role can perform a specific operation on a specific resource. The ARN is the unique identifier of the resource on Alibaba Cloud. Take note of the following items:

{#}indicates a variable. {#} must be replaced with an actual value. For example, {#ramcode} must be replaced with the actual code of an Alibaba Cloud service in RAM.
An asterisk (*) is used as a wildcard. Examples:
- {#resourceType} is set to *, all resources are specified.
- {#regionId} is set to *, all regions are specified.
- {#accountId} is set to *, all Alibaba Cloud accounts are specified.

Resource type	ARN
BackupPlan	acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/{#BackupPlanId}
BackupPlan	acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:backupplan/*
RestoreTask	acs:dbs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:restoretask/{#RestoreTaskId}

Condition

DBS does not define service-specific condition keys. For more information about common condition keys that are defined by Alibaba Cloud, see Generic Condition Keyword.

What to do next

You can create a custom policy and attach the policy to a RAM user, RAM user group, or RAM role. For more information, see the following topics: