What Are the Differences Between IAM Users and Enterprise Member Accounts?

IAM Users

IAM users are created using an account in IAM or Enterprise Management (User Management page). They are managed and granted permissions by the account. Bills generated by the IAM users' use of resources are paid by the account.

In an enterprise, if there are multiple employees who need to use the resources purchased from Huawei Cloud through an account, the account can be used to create IAM users for these employees and assign permissions to the users for using resources. The IAM users have their own passwords for accessing the resources under the account.

For details about how to create an IAM user, see Creating an IAM User.

Enterprise Member Accounts

Both enterprise master accounts and member accounts are generated upon successful registration with Huawei Cloud. Accounting Management of Enterprise Management allows multiple Huawei Cloud accounts to be associated with each other for accounting purposes. You can create a hierarchical organization and a master account, add member accounts to this organization, and associate them with the master account.

The master account can allocate funds to member accounts so that the member accounts can use the funds to manage resources.

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.

For details about how to create a member account, see Creating a Member Account.