Create a free cluster

The free cluster provides a fully functioning single node YugabyteDB cluster deployed to the region of your choice. The cluster is free forever and includes enough resources to explore the core features available for developing applications with YugabyteDB. No credit card information is required. You can only have one free cluster.

To create a free cluster:

1. After setting up your Yugabyte Cloud account, log in to display the Yugabyte Cloud console. The console has the following main sections, accessed via the left menu:

   • Getting Started - Create your free cluster and access documentation.

   • Clusters - Add, monitor, and manage clusters.

   • Network Access - Set up VPC networks and authorize access to your clusters using IP allow lists.

   • Admin - Manage billing and payment methods, add cloud users, and review cloud activity.

2. On the Getting Started page, click Create a free cluster to open the Create Cluster wizard.

3. Select Yugabyte Cloud Free and click Next.

4. Choose the provider (AWS or GCP), enter a name for the cluster, and choose the region, then click Next.

5. Choose the credentials you'll use to connect to your YugabyteDB database in the cloud. You can choose the default set with a database user named "admin", or create your own.

6. Click Download credentials and save your credentials in a secure location.

7. Verify that your credentials are downloaded, and click Create Cluster.

Once you complete the wizard, Yugabyte Cloud bootstraps and provisions the cluster, and configures YugabyteDB. The process takes up to 15 minutes.

Once the cluster is ready, the cluster Overview is displayed. You now have a fully configured YugabyteDB cluster provisioned in Yugabyte Cloud.

Learn more

Differences between free and standard clusters

Deploy production clusters

Authorize access to your cluster

Next step

Connect to your cluster using the Cloud Shell.