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Getting Started

First steps​

  1. Create an account

    Navigate to the Aerospike Cloud signup page. You can sign up with either a Google account or with an email address and password.

  2. Create an organization

    Your organization allows you to grant access privileges to other users. The organization name can be 3-100 characters long. Once an organization is created, the name cannot be changed.

  3. Create a database

    Each organization receives a free 14-day trial of Aerospike Cloud. If you want to activate the free trial, you can do that now. If you'd rather go straight to purchasing a service agreement, follow these steps.

    • Click Create Database.

    • Select either Hourly for hourly billing or Free Trial to create a test database.

    • Specify database details.

      • Choose a name for your database. The database name can be 1-100 characters long.

      • Choose a cloud provider and region to host your database.

      • For hourly billing databases, select a storage option. Storage options have different capacities for transactions per second (TPS) and peak reads/writes per second.

        The selected capacity determines the monthly base price. Storage and transaction usage is billed at the end of the month based on actual usage.

      • Click Continue to billing for hourly billing databases or Create Database for free trial databases.

    • Enter your billing information.

    • Click Create Database in the lower-right corner.

      The new database appears in your list of databases along with its status. New databases take about 10-15 minutes to launch. When the status changes to Running, the database is ready.

  4. Create an API key

    API keys authenticate users for database access.

    • From your list of databases, select the database for the API key.

    • Select API Keys from the center navigation.

    • Click New API Key.

    • Enter a name for the key and click Generate Key.

    • The new key's secret appears in the dialog box. Copy it and store it in a safe place. If you lose the key secret, there is no way to retrieve it; you must delete the key and generate a new one.

Next steps​