Alibaba Cloud Billing
Use the Alibaba Cloud Billing integration to ingest billing data into Cloudaware Cost Management.
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- Audience: Cloudaware administrators, FinOps, finance teams
- Outcome: Alibaba Cloud billing data is available in Cloudaware for cost analysis and reporting
Prerequisites
- An Alibaba Cloud account connected to Cloudaware. See the Alibaba Cloud Setup Guide.
- Permission to update the RAM role or RAM user policies used by the Cloudaware integration.
- Read access to billing data for the connected account, granted to that RAM role or RAM user.
How It Works
Cloudaware uses the access configured for your Alibaba Cloud integration to discover billing data. Billing data discovery is automatic.
Resource inventory permissions alone may not provide access to billing data. Review the permissions assigned to the RAM role or RAM user used by Cloudaware and ensure that billing read access is included. See Least-Privilege Policies for guidance on managing integration permissions.
Enable Billing Discovery
- Confirm that the Alibaba Cloud account is connected and healthy in Cloudaware.
- Identify the RAM role or RAM user configured for that account.
- Grant that identity the permissions required to read the account's billing data.
- Allow time for permission changes to take effect and for Cloudaware to discover the billing data.
Verification
After granting access:
- Confirm that the Alibaba Cloud account integration remains healthy in Cloudaware.
- Check Cloudaware Cost Management for billing data from the expected Alibaba Cloud account.
- Compare the account and billing period with the corresponding data in Alibaba Cloud.
Troubleshooting
If billing data does not appear:
- Verify that billing read permissions are assigned to the RAM role or RAM user actually used by Cloudaware.
- Confirm that the permissions apply to the account whose billing data you expect to collect.
- Check that billing data is available in Alibaba Cloud for the selected period.
- Allow time for permission changes and discovery before checking again.
If billing data is still missing, contact Cloudaware Support with the affected account and billing period.