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# SurrealDB Cloud

Get a free managed SurrealDB instance with an email sign-in. Persistent data without installing the server yourself.

[SurrealDB Cloud](/docs/manage/instances.md) is a managed service: SurrealDB runs in our environment, and you connect from SurrealDB Studio, the SDKs, or the HTTP and WebSocket APIs. Compared to the [SurrealDB Studio Sandbox](/docs/running/sandbox.md), you sign in (typically with an email) and your **data persists** in a proper cloud instance.

<img src="~/assets/img/image/cloud/light/cloud-architecture-light.png" darkSrc="~/assets/img/image/cloud/cloud-architecture-dark.png" alt="Diagram of a SurrealDB Cloud instance: requests to [instance-id].surreal.cloud reach a compute node backed by storage on Amazon S3." />

In SurrealDB Studio you can go from the Sandbox to Cloud with **Deploy to Cloud**, create an instance, and then point your connection at the new instance instead of Sandbox.

For day-to-day management, see [Instances](/docs/manage/instances.md) and [Organisations](/docs/manage/organisations.md) in the *Manage* section.