Account sharing overview

What is account sharing?

Account sharing lets an enterprise administrator manage and share assets across multiple accounts in an organization. To use this feature, enable the Enterprise Account Center.

After you enable the Enterprise Account Center, log in to the console and choose Expenses and Costs > Account > Account Sharing to access account sharing.

Enable account sharing

1. Complete enterprise real-name verification for your account. For more information, see Enterprise identity verification. Individual real-name verification is not sufficient. Unverified accounts cannot use this feature.

2. After verification, enable the Enterprise Account Center. For more information, see Enable enterprise multi-account management.

3. Account sharing is automatically enabled with Enterprise Account Center. However, an administrator must invite member accounts to the organization to manage them. For more information, see Account Management.

4. Set up a resource directory that matches your management hierarchy, then move member accounts into the appropriate organizations.

5. Use the resource directory to manage funding accounts, bills, invoices, and benefit assets of member accounts.

Features

Account sharing provides the following main features:

Unified account management

An enterprise administrator can manage authorized accounts and their assets, including:

• Available balance: View the available balance of authorized accounts.

• Credit limit: View and adjust credit limits.

• Low balance alert: View and configure low-balance alerts.

• Stored value cards: View the number of active stored value cards in authorized accounts.

• Fund transfers: Transfer and reclaim cash balances between accounts and view transfer history.

• Account details: View details of authorized accounts.

For more information, see Unified account management.

Benefit asset sharing

With Enterprise Account Center enabled, an administrator can share benefit assets—savings plans, reserved instance vouchers, Storage Capacity Units (SCUs), and coupons—from the management account with member accounts.

• Shareable resources:

  • Savings plans: Once shared, member accounts gain automatic access with no extra configuration. Supported products are listed in Cloud products that support savings plans.

  • Reserved instance vouchers: Committed-term resource plans billed hourly or daily. Once shared, member accounts gain automatic access with no extra configuration. Resource plan overview and purchase.

  • Storage Capacity Units (SCUs): Committed-term resource plans billed hourly or daily. Once shared, member accounts gain automatic access with no extra configuration. Resource plan overview and purchase.

  • Coupons: Once shared, member accounts gain automatic access. For the usage scope of coupons, see Use and manage coupons.

• Sharing scopes:

  • Sharing by account: The scope is fixed and changes only when manually adjusted.

  • Sharing by organization: The scope dynamically adjusts as accounts join or leave the organization.

• Sharing methods:

  • Sharing by asset ID: Set a sharing scope for an individual asset, targeting specific accounts or an organization. The scope applies only to that asset ID.

  • Automatic sharing by asset type: After you configure automatic sharing rules, new assets of the specified type are automatically shared based on those rules.

Benefit asset sharing.

Coupon quota pool

The coupon quota pool lets you create custom coupons within the quota issued by Alibaba Cloud, distribute them to accounts, reclaim unused value, and view allocation and reclamation records.

The quota pool supports the following operations:

• Generate coupons and distribute them to authorized accounts.

• Reclaim unused coupon value and reissue it as new coupons.

• Coupon quota pool.