Resource Profiles
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- UpdatedAug 1, 2024
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- Cloud Management
Resource profiles are cloud provider-agnostic definitions that specify the allowed attribute values for a resource. Resource profiles enable you to control the choices that the user sees when requesting a cloud resource. As a result, you do not need to define a unique blueprint for each variation of the resource.
Example: Compute profile

Resource Profile mappings
- A cloud account.
- A logical datacenter in the cloud account.
- A specific resource type in the CMDB that provides the attributes.
- Optional: A pricing value that appears to users when they request a resource that uses the resource profile.
By default for AWS and Azure, Cloud Provisioning and Governance maps profiles to templates after Discovery runs. For other providers, such as Google cloud, you must manually associate the profile with the correct template and datacenter.
Resource types
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