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Resource Access Management:CreateSAMLProvider

Last Updated:Sep 28, 2025

Creates a configuration for a role-based SSO identity provider.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ram:CreateSAMLProvider

create

*All Resource

*

 None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example
SAMLProviderName

string

Yes

The name of the identity provider.

The name can be up to 128 characters long and can contain letters, digits, and the following special characters: .-_. The name cannot start or end with a special character.

test-provider
Description

string

No

The description.

This is a provider.
EncodedSAMLMetadataDocument

string

No

The metadata file. The file must be Base64-encoded.

The file is provided by an identity provider that supports the SAML 2.0 protocol.

PD94bWwgdmVy****
AuthnSignAlgo

string

No

The signature algorithm that the Alibaba Cloud service provider (SP) supports. Valid values:

  • rsa-sha256

  • rsa-sha1 (default)

rsa-sha1

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The returned data.

RequestId

string

The request ID.

E5EDDFD2-3654-4F9F-9780-4AE7D81823EF
SAMLProvider

object

The information about the identity provider.

UpdateDate

string

The time when the identity provider was last updated. The time is in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

2020-10-22T02:51:20Z
Description

string

The description.

This is a provider.
SAMLProviderName

string

The name of the identity provider.

test-provider
CreateDate

string

The time when the identity provider was created. The time is in UTC.

2020-10-22T02:37:05Z
Arn

string

The Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) of the identity provider.

acs:ram::177242285274****:saml-provider/test-provider
AuthnSignAlgo

string

The signature algorithm that the Alibaba Cloud SP supports. Valid values:

  • rsa-sha256

  • rsa-sha1 (default)

rsa-sha1

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{ "RequestId": "E5EDDFD2-3654-4F9F-9780-4AE7D81823EF", "SAMLProvider": { "UpdateDate": "2020-10-22T02:51:20Z", "Description": "This is a provider.", "SAMLProviderName": "test-provider", "CreateDate": "2020-10-22T02:37:05Z", "Arn": "acs:ram::177242285274****:saml-provider/test-provider", "AuthnSignAlgo": "rsa-sha1" } }

Error codes

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Release notes

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