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To get started with {{ecloud}}, sign up for an account:
- Go to the {{ecloud}} Sign Up page.
- Choose one of the available sign up methods. You can register with your email address and a password, use a Google or Microsoft account, or subscribe from a Marketplace.
When you first sign up, you create an organization and start with a trial license.
An organization is the umbrella for a group of {{ecloud}} resources, users, and account settings. Every organization has a unique identifier. Bills are invoiced according to the billing contact and details that you set for your organization. A user can belong to multiple organizations or be the owner of multiple organizations. For more details on how to manage your organizations, refer to .
When you create an organization, you start with a free 14-day trial. During this trial, you have access to the following:
One hosted deployment
A deployment lets you explore Elastic solutions for Search, Observability, and Security. Trial deployments run on the latest version of the {{stack}}. They include two 4 GB RAM instances, one per availability zone, and storage capacity based on the selected hardware profile. If you’re looking to evaluate a smaller workload, you can scale down your trial deployment. Each deployment includes Elastic features such as Maps, SIEM, {{ml}}, advanced security, and much more. You have some sample data sets to play with and tutorials that describe how to add your own data.
For more information, check the {{ech}} documentation.
Three {{serverless-short}} projects
{{serverless-short}} projects package {{stack}} features by type of solution:
When you create a project, you select the project type applicable to your use case, so the most relevant applications and features are shown to you from the start.
For more information, check the {{serverless-short}} documentation.
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Start by checking out some common approaches for moving data into {{ecloud}}. For a more structured trial plan with success criteria and a 14-day proof-of-concept framework, refer to Evaluate Elastic during a trial.
As you move from trial to production:
- Hosted deployments: Compare storage, RAM, and vCPU trade-offs before choosing a profile. Refer to Hardware profiles and instance configuration hardware reference.
- {{serverless-short}}: Review {{serverless-short}} billing dimensions and use the {{ech}} and {{serverless-short}} comparison to choose the deployment model for your workload.
Subscribe to {{ecloud}} for the following benefits:
- Increased memory or storage for deployment components, such as {{es}} clusters, machine learning nodes, and APM server.
- As many deployments and projects as you need.
- Third availability zone for your deployments.
- Access to additional features, such as {{ccs}} and {{ccr}}.
You can subscribe to {{ecloud}} at any time during your trial by adding your billing details or by upgrading your trial to a marketplace subscription. Billing starts when you subscribe. To maximize the benefits of your trial, subscribe at the end of the free period. To monitor charges, anticipate future costs, and adjust your usage, check your account usage and billing history.
Maintain access to your trial projects and data [general-sign-up-trial-what-happens-at-the-end-of-the-trial]
When your trial expires, the deployment and projects that you created during the trial period are suspended until you subscribe to {{ecloud}}. When you subscribe, you are able to resume your deployment and {{serverless-short}} projects, and regain access to the ingested data. After your trial expires, you have 30 days to subscribe. After 30 days, your deployment, {{serverless-short}} projects, and ingested data are permanently deleted.
If you’re interested in learning more ways to subscribe to {{ecloud}}, don’t hesitate to contact us.
We’re here to help. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to Support.