Add an Alibaba Cloud Account on Prisma Cloud

Access Prisma Cloud.
If you have not already activated your account, check your email for the welcome to Prisma Cloud email that includes your username, and create a new password to log in.

On first-time login to Prisma Cloud in the Alibaba Mainland China region, you must accept the EULA. When you click the EULA, a new page displays where you can review the content. As a temporary work around, to
Agree and Submit
you must refresh the page and log in again with your credentials.
Select
Settings
Cloud Accounts
Add Cloud Account
.
Select
Alibaba Cloud
as the
Cloud to Secure
.

Enter a
Cloud Account Name
.
A cloud account name is auto-populated for you. Replace it with a cloud account name that uniquely identifies your Alibaba Cloud account on Prisma™ Cloud.

Select the
Deployment Type
you need.
This drop-down list is visible only if your Prisma Cloud instance is on https://app.prismacloud.cn.
Public

—This is the default option. It allows you to monitor all the resources in the Alibaba China region, but does not monitor resources in the Alibaba Finance region.

Finance

—Allows you to monitor resources located only in the Alibaba Finance regions.


Enter the Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) as
RAM Role
and click
Next
.
The ARN is the unique identifier for the RAM role you created to authorize API access for Prisma Cloud. When you enter the ARN, the Alibaba Cloud Account ID gets added automatically.

Select one or more account groups and click
Next
.
You must assign each cloud account to an account group, and create an alert rule to associate the account group with it to generate alerts when a policy violation occurs.

Review the onboarding
Status
of your account on Prisma Cloud and click
Save
.
The status check verifies that the RAM role and policies were set up correctly.

After successfully onboarding the account, you will see it on the
Cloud Accounts
page.

Next Steps
Review the Prisma Cloud default
Policies
for Alibaba Cloud.
Select
Policies
, set the
Cloud Type
filter as
Alibaba Cloud
, and view all the Config policies that are available to detect any misconfigurations in your infrastructure.

Start using the Prisma Cloud Asset Inventory for visibility.