Announcing a New Full-Featured Trial for YugabyteDB Managed

We’ve got some exciting news to share—the YugabyteDB Managed full-featured trial is now available!

We’ve been working hard all month to set this up, and we can’t wait for you to try it out. With this new offering, you can explore the full potential of a dedicated YugabyteDB Managed cluster completely free of charge for a limited time.

Here’s your chance to test your advanced use cases on our platform, without the constraints of the always-free sandbox cluster, which has been available since our initial launch.

So, whether you’re new to YugabyteDB or just curious about what we have to offer, we’re excited to help you get started. We understand that starting a new service can be intimidating, so continue reading for a clear and simple guide to help you breeze through the sign-up process and start capitalizing on all the benefits YugabyteDB Managed offers. So let’s dive in and get you signed up for your free trial!

How to Get a YugabyteDB Managed Full-Featured Trial

1. Go to our sign up page (at “cloud.yugabyte.com”) and create an account using your email address:
   
2. Once you’ve signed up, you can log in to your account with your newly minted credentials
   
3. On the homepage, click on “Create a Free Cluster” to proceed.
   
4. Here you can choose between a “Sandbox” cluster and a “Dedicated” cluster. Click on the “Request a Free Trial” button under the “Dedicated” cluster option on the right hand side.
   

   Free Tier vs. Full-Featured Trial: What’s the Difference?

   If you are wondering what the difference is between a sandbox (free tier) and the full-featured trial, check out the table below:
   Comparison: Sandbox (Free Tier) vs Full-Featured Trial

   Key Features	Sandbox (Free Tier)	Full-Featured Trial
   Fully-managed experience	✅	✅
   Explore PostgreSQL compatibility	✅	✅
   Try out horizontal scalability	❌	✅
   Try out fault tolerance	❌	✅
   Try out multi-region cluster	❌	✅
   Time duration	Free forever	Time limited
   Ideal For	Vocational builders, students	Partners, evaluators, proof-of-concepts

5. Finally, enter your information to request access to the YugabyteDB Managed full-featured trial.
   
   The Yugabyte team will contact you within two business days using your preferred contact method. If you qualify for the free full-featured trial, you will receive free credits to put towards creating dedicated clusters and accessing all the available features in YugabyteDB Managed. While you wait, why not create a Sandbox cluster to run a tutorial and explore the basics of YugabyteDB and distributed SQL for free?

Key Capabilities of YugabyteDB Managed in the Free Trial

Below are some of the key YugabyteDB Managed capabilities that you can take advantage of in your free trial and beyond!

1. Lower Operational Cost: Get started with YugabyteDB Managed on the cloud of your choice with no set-up charges and flexible pricing options. You can further optimize it for unused clusters, all without the overhead of managing day-to-day database operations.
2. Extreme Global Availability: Deploy YugabyteDB Managed across the globe on over 45 supported global regions in AWS and Google Cloud. Build always-on, highly-performant applications with low latency, and horizontal and vertical scalability supporting availability zone, node, and region-level fault tolerance.
3. Intrinsic Database Security: Protect your clusters and cloud infrastructure by automatically employing highly-secure encryption in transit and encryption at rest. Some additional security features that can help you obtain best-in-class data security via intuitive administrative controls include: identity and access management, database access logging, auditing, and role-based access control.
4. Intelligent Database Management: Focus on building great applications while programmatically automating critical cluster operations, deploying cloud native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) via an enhanced Terraform Provider, fine-tuning cluster performance, managing alerts, and monitoring performance.
5. Accelerate Developer Productivity: Increase rate of innovation and competitiveness by bringing new ideas to production within hours/days. Accelerate expansion with frictionless scale and modernization of existing apps using the most PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database available. Eliminate the tradeoffs of legacy databases and accelerate developer productivity–whether by building new microservices or modernizing existing applications. Retain top talent by focusing on rewarding, growth initiatives.

Get Started With Your Free Trial

Get started today by signing up for a full-featured free trial.

To learn more:

• Check out the YugabyteDB Managed 
• Explore YugabyteDB Managed docs