Create an Instance

Surreal Cloud (Beta) allows you to create a new Instance with a few clicks. You can create an Instance in your personal account or in an organization.

Important

In Beta, you can create instances only in a personal account. Support for creating instances in organizations is coming soon.

You can create an Instance in these steps from your Cloud dashboard:

1. Click on the Create Instance button.

   • You can choose to create a new Instance either in your personal account or in an organization.
   • If you choose to create an Instance in an organization, you need to select the organization from the dropdown list.

2. Input your Instance details.

   • Instance name: the name of the Instance.
   • Instance version: the version of SurrealDB you want to use. In the Beta release, only version >v2.0.0 is available to use as it is the latest stable release.

3. Select a region where you want to deploy your Instance.

   • AWS Europe (Ireland)
   • AWS US East (N. Virginia)

Important

The region you choose will affect your application’s latency. For optimal performance, choose a region that is closest to your users.

4. Select an Instance category: Instance category defines the resources allocated to your cloud Instance. The Instance categories are in three different categories - Development, Production, and Free Tier. You can choose between the following configurations:

Note

To use a Production or Development Instance, you need to enter your billing and payment information.

• Production: for production environments, data at scale, or professional use cases.

• Development: for testing, starter projects, or for low-traffic applications. Clusters under heavy load may experience CPU throttling.

• Free Tier: experience SurrealDB with a free Instance.

5. Choose nodes: the number of nodes selected will define the number of compute nodes allocated to your Instance.

Important

The number of nodes you choose will affect the cost of your Instance.

6. After customising your Instance, click the Create button. You will see a confirmation message with the details of your Instance. You can now connect to your Instance using your preferred connection method.

Next steps

Now that you have created an Instance, you can connect to your Surreal Cloud (Beta) Instance. You can also configure your Instance to change the Instance type, number of nodes, and capabilities.