Basic Concepts

HUAWEI ID

A HUAWEI ID is a unified "identity" for a customer to access various Huawei portals. You can sign up for just one HUAWEI ID to obtain access to all of Huawei's services, including Huawei Cloud, HUAWEI Mobile Services, HUAWEI devices (such as HUAWEI Phones), and HUAWEI Developers. After you create a HUAWEI ID through Huawei Cloud, you can use it to purchase Huawei Cloud resources. The HUAWEI ID has full access permissions for your cloud resources and can be used to make payments for them. You can use the HUAWEI ID to reset IAM user passwords, assign permissions, and receive and pay all bills generated for resources used by your IAM users.

Huawei Website Account

Huawei website account is the Huawei Uniportal ID. It is created in the Huawei official website and cannot be used to log in to Huawei Cloud. To use Huawei Cloud services, sign up for a HUAWEI ID and enable Huawei Cloud services.

IAM User

You can use a HUAWEI ID to create users in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and assign them permissions for specific resources. Each IAM user has their own credentials (password and access keys) and uses cloud resources based on assigned permissions. IAM users cannot make payments for cloud resources they use.

Enterprise Master Account and Member Account

An enterprise master account and member account are both HUAWEI IDs.

An enterprise master account is an enterprise account that has enabled the Enterprise Center and has not joined the Cloud Solution Provider Program. It can be used by a medium- or large-sized enterprise to manage commercial discounts, funds, invoices, and bills for multiple accounts across subsidiaries or departments.

Enterprise Center enables multiple HUAWEI IDs to be associated with each other for accounting purposes. If a customer uses a HUAWEI ID to enable Enterprise Center, the HUAWEI ID becomes a master account, and the customer can use it to create a hierarchical organization, create member accounts, or associate existing accounts as member accounts.

To invite another account to function as a member account, an enterprise master account must meet specific requirements as described in Inviting an Existing Account.

Partner Account

An enterprise customer can sign up for a HUAWEI ID and enable Huawei Cloud services, and join HCPN to become a Huawei Cloud partner.

Different from a HUAWEI ID, a partner account is a management account used by a partner to develop and manage customers and fulfill the responsibilities of granting credits, selling services, billing, and making payments. A partner account can be associated with multiple HUAWEI IDs. After the association is completed, the HUAWEI IDs become the partner's sub-customer accounts.

If a customer associated with the partner is a reseller customer, the customer deals with the partner. The partner issues an invoice to and collects payment from the customer. Huawei Cloud completes settlement with (based on the settlement fee) and issues an invoice to the partner. The partner pays Huawei Cloud and generates revenue based on the difference between the price paid by the customer and the price they pay to Huawei Cloud.

Relationships Between Different Accounts

A customer can have multiple HUAWEI IDs, and each HUAWEI ID can be used to create multiple IAM users. A HUAWEI ID that meets specific requirements can enable Enterprise Center and associate other HUAWEI IDs as its member accounts.

Enterprise Management enables multiple HUAWEI IDs to be associated with each other for accounting purposes. Customers can create a hierarchical organization and a master account, add member accounts to this organization, and associate them with the master account.

Both the master account and member accounts can create IAM users to control access to specific resources. An account can only manage its own IAM users but cannot manage the IAM users created by other accounts.