Linking a billing account

A billing account is used to identify the user who pays for computing resources, nodes, and resource storage for all community projects.

You can create a Yandex Cloud billing account in advance and link it when creating a community. In the DataSphere interface, you can also create a new billing account when selecting a billing account for the community.

Only a community user with the datasphere.communities.editor role or higher can link a billing account to a community. To manage billing accounts, you also need the billing.accounts.editor role or higher. If you are a community admin but have no access to billing accounts in your organization, contact your organization's admin in Yandex Cloud.

Changing a community billing accountChanging a community billing account

Users with the Editor or Admin role in the community can change the billing account used to pay for community projects and resources.

1. Open the DataSphere home page. In the left-hand panel, select Communities.

2. Select the community and open the Settings tab.
3. Under Billing, click Edit.
4. Select an existing billing account or create a new one by following the prompts in the interface.
5. Click Link.

Who pays for shared resourcesWho pays for shared resources

How you pay for shared DataSphere resources depends on the resource type:

• Storing a dataset is paid from the billing account of the parent community in whose project the dataset was created.
• Using secrets, Docker images, and aliases is free of charge.
• Using S3 connectors is free of charge; however, storing objects in a Yandex Object Storage bucket is paid from the billing account linked to the cloud hosting that bucket.
• Using Yandex Data Processing templates is free of charge; however, running a cluster automatically created from a template is paid from the billing account of the cloud hosting that cluster.

See alsoSee also

• DataSphere pricing policy
• Communities in DataSphere
• Billing accounts
• Billing account statuses