The resource element describes one or multiple operation objects such as CVM resources and COS buckets. This document describes the resource information in CAM.

Six-Segment Format

All resources can be described in the following six-segment format. Each service has its own resources and detailed resource definition. For more information on how to specify resources, please see the corresponding product documentation in CAM-Enabled Products.
The six-segment format is defined as follows:

qcs:project_id:service_type:region:account:resource

• qcs: is the abbreviation of qcloud service and indicates a Tencent Cloud resource, which is required.

• project_id describes the project information, which is only compatible with legacy CAM logic. It is not allowed in the current policy syntax and can be left empty.

• service_type describes the abbreviated service name, such as CVM and CDN. For more information on the abbreviations, please see the corresponding service documentation. The value * indicates all services. This field is required.

• region describes the region information. If this field is left empty, it indicates all regions. For more information on region naming, please see Region List.

• account describes the root account information of the resource owner. Currently, either uin or uid can be used to describe the resource owner.

  • uin is the account ID of the root account, which is expressed in the format of uin/${uin}, such as uin/12345678.
  • uid is the APPID of the root account, which is expressed in the format of uid/${appid}, such as uid/10001234.
  • If this value is empty, the account will be the root account of the user who created the policy.

    Note：

    Currently, COS and CAS resource owners can only be described by uid, while resource owners of other services can only be described by uin.

• resource describes the detailed resource information of the specific service.

  Note：

  resource_type (resource prefix) is the part before the first / in the last segment of the 6-segment resource description; for example, in the CVM resource description qcs::cvm:$region::instance/*, the resource prefix is instance.

  • This field is required. The resource can be described as follows:

    • It can indicate the ID of a resource in a resource subcategory, such as instance/ins-abcdefg for CVM.

      <resource_type>/<resource_id> 
      

    • It can indicate the ID of a resource with a path in a resource subcategory, such as prefix//10001234/bucket1/object2 for COS. Prefix match at the directory level is supported for this type of description. For example, prefix//10001234/bucket1/* indicates all the objects in bucket1.

      <resource_type>/<resource_path>
      

    • It can indicate all the resources in a resource subcategory, such as instance/*.

      <resource_type>/*
      

    • It can indicate all the resources of a service.

      *
      

  • In certain scenarios, the resource element can be described by *, and the definitions are as follows. For more information, please see the corresponding service documentation.

  • If the action is an operation that needs to be associated with a resource, the resource can be defined as *, indicating that all resources are associated.

  • If the action is an operation that does not need to be associated with a resource, the resource needs to be defined as *.

Resource Definition for CAM

CAM resources include users, user groups, and policies. A CAM resource can be described as follows:

Root account

qcs::cam::uin/164256472:uin/164256472

Or

qcs::cam::uin/164256472:root 

Sub-account

qcs::cam::uin/164256472:uin/73829520

Group

qcs::cam::uin/164256472:groupid/2340

All resources

*

Policy

qcs::cam::uin/12345678:policyid/*

Or

qcs::cam::uin/12345678:policyid/12423

Notes on Resources

• A resource owner is always a root account. The sub-account that creates a resource will not automatically have access to the resource; instead, it must be authorized by the resource owner.
• Services such as COS and CAS support cross-account authorization for resource access. Authorized accounts can pass permissions to their sub-accounts through permission propagation.

Relevant Documents

For more information on service-specific resource definitions, please see the corresponding product documentation in CAM-Enabled Products.