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# Adding Alibaba account

ALM requires the credentials below to allow access to specific Alibaba Cloud resources.

* AccessKeyID
* AccessKeySecret

We recommend you to use RAM user as Alibaba Cloud credentials to ALM. To create a RAM user, please follow the steps below:

**Step 1**: Log into your Alibaba Cloud console and find "Resource Access Management (RAM)" section, create the policy.

The contents of the policy can be checked on ALM:

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Copy the above the policy contents and create the policy on Alibaba Cloud console:

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**Step 2**: Create the RAM user and attach the policy.

Create the RAM user:

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Attach the previously created policy to the RAM user:

![](/files/-LEr6CGbzMed4C97h-ZH)

**Step 3**: Create an access key and enter it on ALM.

![](/files/-LEr8GVhU-_zjxcf31BG)

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