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  • Yandex account
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  • Federated account
  • Use cases
  • Local user
  • Service account
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  1. Concepts
  2. Accounts in Yandex Cloud
  3. Overview

Accounts in Yandex Cloud

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at July 23, 2025
  • Yandex account
    • Use cases
  • Federated account
    • Use cases
  • Local user
  • Service account
    • Use cases

Yandex Cloud uses Yandex accounts, service accounts, and federated accounts.

Note

Billing accounts are not used for managing resources in Yandex Cloud and are not part of IAM. For more information, see Billing accounts in the Yandex Cloud Billing documentation.

Yandex accountYandex account

Yandex account: Your Yandex or Yandex 360 account. Use this account type in the following cases:

  • If you do not need to set up access permissions for your applications. Otherwise, use a service account.
  • For smaller teams if you did not set up an identity federation in your organization (e.g., with Active Directory or Google Workspace). Otherwise, use federated accounts.

To better safeguard your resources from unauthorized access, enable Yandex ID two-factor authentication. Also, request users you add to your organization to enable it.

Use casesUse cases

  • Creating an interactive serverless application using WebSocket

Federated accountFederated account

A federated account is a user account from an identity federation, e.g., Active Directory.

With identity federations, a business can enable single sign-on to Yandex Cloud via their server. This allows the company employees use their corporate accounts to access Yandex Cloud.

Use federated accounts if you need to grant Yandex Cloud access to a large number of employees.

For more information, see SAML-compatible identity federations.

Use casesUse cases

  • Auto Unseal in Hashicorp Vault

Local userLocal user

Local users are linked only to the domain, their credentials are stored only in Yandex Cloud as part of a user pool. Local users are created in a user pool, exist within a single organization, and cannot create a new one.

Note

User pools are currently at the Preview stage.

Local users get authenticated in Yandex Cloud with the help of Login Discovery without using any external authentication providers.

Service accountService account

A service account is an account that can be used by a program to manage resources in Yandex Cloud.

Service accounts allow you to set up flexible access to your resources and minimize risks associated with excessive permissions. Use this account type for your applications, CLI, Terraform, and Yandex Cloud API. For more information, see Service accounts.

Use casesUse cases

  • Getting started with Terraform

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