We have a number of articles on tracking and minimizing the costs of operating on Terra. There are multiple ways of estimating how much your analyses are costing you, including built-in tools and external resources. The articles below contain instructions and advice on managing your cloud resources in a variety of ways: Article: Article: Article: Article:

Now that you can log in, you’ll want to make sure that you have access to a Billing Account and Billing Project. This will allow you to charge storage and analysis costs through a Google account linked to Terra. A Terra Billing Project is Terra's way of connecting a workspace where you accrue costs for things, back to a Google Billing account where you pay for it. You must have a Google Billing Account established before creating a Terra Billing Project. Outlined here are the steps necessary to set this up, as well as instructions on how to add or be added to an existing account/billing project.

Detailed instructions for setting up your billing can be found by following the links below. If you are a BDC Fellow, your procedure for billing set up is a bit different, but you may find some of the information below still relevant (sharing a billing project with another user, for example). Step 1: Get Step 2: Wait for approval & review the ​ Step 3: Credits approved. Now Step 4 (optional): ​

Logging in to Terra for the first time is a quick and straight-forward process. The process is easiest if you already have an email address hosted by Google. If you want to use an email address that is not hosted by Google, we have instructions for that as well. Article: ​ Article: ​ We also recommend our article on to get familiar with basic menus and options in Terra, as well as this .

Read on in the next two subsections for primers on how to set up billing and how to manage costs.