Organizations and projects

Two ideas organize everything in the Console: an organization (also called an account or workspace) and the projects inside it.

Organizations

An organization is the owner of projects, the place where teammates are added, and the account that is billed. When you register, you get your own organization, labelled Personal / Owner in the switcher. If someone invites you to theirs, it appears too, labelled Invited with the role you were given.

Everything that costs money, such as storage, compute and backups, accrues to the organization that owns the project, and the organization's owner is the billing contact. See Usage and the free allowance.

Projects

A project is one application's home: databases, files, functions, containers, keys and settings. It belongs to exactly one organization. See Create your first project.

Switch organization

1. Open the Projects page.
2. Open the organization menu in the header. It shows the current name, your role and Accounts & Workspaces with the number of organizations you belong to.
3. Choose another organization. The page reloads with that organization's projects.

The Console remembers the choice for a while in this browser. The Billing page also has a Switch Account button if you belong to more than one.

Switch project

Open the Switch Project menu on the Projects page, or the PROJECT selector in the sidebar of any project. It lists each project with its size. + New creates another.

See your access

Open IAM (under Account & Platform). The Your Access table lists every organization you own or were invited into, your role in each, your Project Scope (All Projects (*) or named projects) and when you joined. For roles, see Invite teammates and choose roles.

Good to know

• You can be an Owner in one organization and a Viewer in another. What you can do depends on the organization you are working in.
• A person invited with a limited Project Scope only sees the projects named in the invitation.
• Moving a project between organizations is not a self-service button. See Move a project to another organization.
• If you belong to several organizations, check the name in the header before you create something, so it is created in the right place and billed to the right account.