Create an Instance

Surreal Cloud 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 the overview:

Click on the Create new button and select the Cloud Instance option. This will take you to the create instance form.
Input your Instance details.
- Organization: the organization you want to create the Instance in.
- Configuration: the configuration you want to use for your Instance.
  - Instance name: the name of the Instance.
  - Region: the region you want to deploy your Instance in.
    - AWS Europe (Ireland)
    - AWS US East (N. Virginia)
  - SurrealDB version: the version of SurrealDB you want to use. Only versions >v2.0.0 are available to use. If you are unsure, select the latest version but if you select a lower version, you will be able to upgrade to the latest in your Instance settings.

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

Select an Instance type: Instance type defines the resources allocated to your cloud Instance. The Instance types 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.

After customising your Instance, click the Create Instance 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 Instance. You can also configure your Instance to change the Instance type, number of nodes, and capabilities.