Access management in Data Transfer

In this section, you will learn:

• Which resources you can assign a role for.
• Which roles exist in the service.
• Which roles are required for particular actions.

To use the service, log in to the management console with a Yandex account or federated account.

About access managementAbout access management

In Yandex Cloud, all transactions are checked in Yandex Identity and Access Management. If a subject does not have the required permission, the service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign roles for this resource to the subject that will perform the operations. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, service account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.

Roles for a resource can be assigned by users who have at least one of the following roles for that resource:

• admin
• resource-manager.admin
• organization-manager.admin
• resource-manager.clouds.owner
• organization-manager.organizations.owner

Which resources you can assign a role forWhich resources you can assign a role for

You can assign a role to an organization, cloud, or folder. The roles assigned for organizations, clouds, or folders also apply to nested resources.

Which roles exist in the serviceWhich roles exist in the service

The chart below shows which roles are available in the service and how they inherit each other's permissions. For example, the editor role includes all the permissions of viewer. You can find the description of each role under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

data-transfer.auditordata-transfer.auditor

The data-transfer.auditor role allows you to view the service metadata, including the information on the relevant folder, endpoints, and transfers, as well as on Data Transfer quotas.

Currently, this role can only be assigned for working with a folder or a cloud.

data-transfer.viewerdata-transfer.viewer

The data-transfer.viewer role allows you to view information on the relevant folder, endpoints, and transfers, as well as on Data Transfer quotas.

This role also includes the data-transfer.auditor permissions.

Currently, this role can only be assigned for working with a folder or a cloud.

data-transfer.privateAdmindata-transfer.privateAdmin

The data-transfer.privateAdmin role allows you to manage endpoints and transfers for transferring data only within Yandex Cloud networks, as well as to view information on the relevant folder and Data Transfer quotas.

Users with this role can:

• View information on transfers, as well as create, modify, delete, activate, use, and deactivate transfers for transferring data within Yandex Cloud networks.
• View information on endpoints, as well as create, modify, and delete endpoints in Yandex Cloud.
• View information on the relevant folder.
• View information on Data Transfer quotas.

This role also includes the data-transfer.viewer permissions.

Currently, this role can only be assigned for working with a folder or a cloud.

data-transfer.admindata-transfer.admin

The data-transfer.admin role allows you to manage endpoints and transfers for transferring data within Yandex Cloud networks and over the internet, as well as to view information on the relevant folder and Data Transfer quotas.

Users with this role can:

• View information on transfers, as well as create, modify, delete, activate, use, and deactivate transfers for transferring data both within Yandex Cloud networks and over the internet.
• View information on endpoints, as well as create, modify, and delete endpoints both within and outside Yandex Cloud.
• View information on the relevant folder.
• View information on Data Transfer quotas.

This role also includes the data-transfer.privateAdmin permissions.

Currently, this role can only be assigned for working with a folder or a cloud.

Primitive rolesPrimitive roles

viewerviewer

The viewer role grants the permissions to read the info on any Yandex Cloud resources.

This role also includes the auditor permissions.

Unlike auditor, the viewer role provides access to service data in read mode.

editoreditor

The editor role provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources, except for assigning roles to other users, transferring organization ownership, removing an organization, and deleting Key Management Service encryption keys.

For instance, users with this role can create, modify, and delete resources.

This role also includes the viewer permissions.

adminadmin

The admin role enables assigning any roles, except for resource-manager.clouds.owner and organization-manager.organizations.owner, and provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources (except for transferring organization ownership and removing an organization).

Prior to assigning the admin role for an organization, cloud, or billing account, make sure to check out the information on protecting privileged accounts.

This role also includes the editor permissions.

Roles requiredRoles required

To use the service, you need the editor role or higher to the folder that projects are being created in. With the viewer role, you can only view the list of projects and the contents of files that were downloaded.

To create or edit an endpoint of a managed database, you need the service or primitive viewer role assigned for the folder hosting a cluster of this managed database.

You can always assign a role offering more permissions than the one specified. For example, assign the admin role instead of editor.

What's nextWhat's next

• How to assign a role.
• How to revoke a role.
• Learn more about access management in Yandex Cloud.
• Learn more about inheriting roles.