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. You can also create a new billing account in the DataSphere interface when selecting a billing account for the community.
Warning
If the selected billing account has an outstanding balance or suspended status, you will not be able to link it to a DataSphere community. If this is the case, go to Yandex Cloud Billing, select your account, and follow the prompts in the interface. Once the billing account is active, try to link it to DataSphere again. Learn more about billing account statuses here.
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.
You cannot unlink a community from a billing account, but you can replace one account with another if you need to.
Changing 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.
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Open the DataSphere home page. In the left-hand panel, select Communities.
- Select the community and open the Settings tab.
- Under Billing, click Edit.
- Select an existing billing account or create a new one by following the prompts in the interface.
- Click Link.
Who pays for shared resources
How you pay for shared DataSphere resources depends on the resource type:
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Storing a dataset is paid from the billing account of the
parent
community whose project the dataset belongs to. -
Using secrets, Docker images, and aliases is free of charge.
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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.
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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.