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Resource Access Management:GetSAMLProvider

Last Updated:Sep 25, 2025

Retrieves information about a specified SAML provider for role-based SSO.

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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:GetSAMLProvider

get

*SAMLProvider

acs:ram::{#accountId}:saml-provider/{#SAMLProviderName}

 None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example
SAMLProviderName

string

Yes

The name of the SAML provider.

test-provider

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

BAADB995-0C7A-476D-B293-7E94568EEDFB
SAMLProvider

object

The information about the SAML provider.

Description

string

The description.

This is a provider.
UpdateDate

string

The time when the SAML provider was last updated.

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

string

The name of the SAML provider.

test-provider
CreateDate

string

The time when the SAML provider was created.

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

string

The Base64-encoded metadata file.

PD94bWwgdmVy****
Arn

string

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

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

string

The signature algorithm supported by the Alibaba Cloud service provider (SP). Valid values:

  • rsa-sha256

  • rsa-sha1

rsa-sha1

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{ "RequestId": "BAADB995-0C7A-476D-B293-7E94568EEDFB", "SAMLProvider": { "Description": "This is a provider.", "UpdateDate": "2020-10-22T02:51:20Z", "SAMLProviderName": "test-provider", "CreateDate": "2020-10-22T02:37:05Z", "EncodedSAMLMetadataDocument": "PD94bWwgdmVy****", "Arn": "acs:ram::177242285274****:saml-provider/test-provider", "AuthnSignAlgo": "rsa-sha1" } }

Error codes

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Release notes

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