Overview

You can share your private images with other tenants. The tenants who accept the shared images can use the images to create ECSs of the same specifications.

Constraints

  • You can share images only within the region where they reside.

  • A system disk image or data disk image can be shared with up to 256 tenants, and a full-ECS image can be shared with no more than 10 tenants.

  • If an encrypted image needs to be shared with other tenants, the key of the image must be a custom key instead of the default key ims/default.

  • Only full-ECS images created from CBR backups can be shared. Other full-ECS images cannot be shared.

Procedure

If you want to share a private image with another tenant, the procedure is as follows:

  1. You obtain the project ID from the tenant.

  2. You share an image with the tenant.

  3. The tenant accepts the shared image.

    After accepting the image, the tenant can use it to create ECSs.