Creating a Billing Account

Navigate to Alibaba Cloud at https://www.alibabacloud.com/.
Click
Sign Up
.
Click
Contact Sales
and get their guidance in setting up your account.

Navigate to Alibaba Cloud at https://www.alibabacloud.com/.
Click
Free Account
.
Select your geographical location, enter your email and a password, agree to the terms and conditions, and click
Confirm
.
In the
Verification
window, select whether to have the confirmation code sent to your email or your phone, and then click
Send
.
Enter the verification code that you received and then click
Verify
.
On the
Account Successfully Created
page, select either
Enterprise Account
or
Individual Account
, depending on your needs. For most purposes, you will want to create an enterprise account.
Enter the following information for your company and then click
Submit
:
Company Name    
Address   
City   
State/Province   
Country/Region: This should be auto filled by your selection from the previous page.   
First Name   
Last Name   
Identity verification by phone: Enter a valid phone number and click
Verify
to ensure that it works properly.
On the
Payment information
tab, enter the required information and click
Submit
.

Creating a RAM Account

Navigate to Alibaba Cloud at https://www.alibabacloud.com/.
Click
Login
.
Enter the
Username
for the account you want to use and click
Next
. This can be the Billing Account or a RAM Account that has admin privileges.
Using RAM Accounts increases security because each RAM user can have their own permissions. Generally, set up a separate non-login RAM user for configuring provider accounts for Enterprise Marketplace.
Enter the
Password
for the account and then click
Log On
.
Click the
Actions
icon in the upper left side of the screen.
From the list of available services, click
Resource Access Management
in the
Monitor and Management
section.
On the
Account Overview
page, click
Users
from the left navigation bar.
Click
Create User
.
On the
User Account Information
page, enter the
Logon Name
and the
Display Name
.
Select the
Programmatic Access
check box to enable access using your
AccessKeyID
and
AccessKeySecret
. This information is used to add user details in the Enterprise Marketplace portal.
Click
OK
.
The next page displays your newly created user information. Make sure to save this information in a secure location immediately because the
Logon Password
and
AccessKeySecret
will not be available again after the dialog box is closed. You can either click
Copy
under the
Actions
menu or click
Download CSV file
.

Adding permissions to your RAM account

On the
Resource Access Management
page, click
Users
. To learn more about navigating to the different services from each tenant, refer to Landing page navigation or Kyndryl Bridge Landing page navigation.
From the list of users created, click the
Actions
menu for the user that you want to add permissions to and select
Add Permissions
.
Select
Alibaba Cloud Account
as your authorized scope.
Go to the
System Policy
section and select
AdministratorAccess
from the
Authorization Policy Name
list.
Click
OK
, and then
Complete
to finish.

Configuration on your tenant

Navigate to the
Provider Account
page. To learn more about navigating to the different services from each tenant, refer to Landing page navigation or Kyndryl Bridge Landing page navigation.
On the
Account Management
page, click the
Asset Accounts
tab and then click
New Asset Account
.
On the
New Asset Account
page, select
Alibaba Cloud
.
On the
Account Details
page, enter the following information and then click
Create Account
:
Name
 
Description
 
Account Number:
Enter any random group of numbers (must be at least 8 digits). Because Alibaba does not have an account number associated to it, the information that you enter in this field is irrelevant. This is a known issue.   
Select Existing Master Account:
This is not a mandatory field and can be left blank.   
Keep the
Status
as
Active
.

Name
Purpose:
  Select
Provisioning
for
Enterprise Marketplace
.
Common Discovery
is also supported for Alibaba. If you were to use the same account for Common Discovery as well, then you may select
Asset Ingestion
or
Asset Discovery
.
Support for Cost & Asset Management is not currently available.
Keep the
Status
as
Active
.
Select the
Create New or Update Credential in Vault
checkbox to enable the
Access Key ID
and
Secret Key ID
fields.
Optionally, in the
Credential Reference ID
field, you can enter an existing credential stored in the system.
Enter the
Access Key ID
and
Secret Key ID
that you created previously in Creating a RAM Account.
In the
Associate this credential with a business entity
section, select the
Associate
checkbox and make your desired selections. Depending on the type of restrictions that you want for this account, you need to associate only those business entities that you want to give access to.