Non-Production Environments in the Cloud

Alation provides a Cloud Sandbox for non-production environments in the Alation Cloud Service.

Customers can purchase a Cloud Sandbox environment in addition to their Production environment. Cloud Sandbox is a copy of the production environment. Cloud Sandbox has several key benefits:

  • Access to new features and capabilities prior to a General Availability (GA) release

  • Ability to test the Alation Cloud Service in a non-production environment

  • Automated deployments of the new Alation builds

  • Opportunity to provide early feedback to Alation

Cloud Sandbox is made available for a period of 2 weeks before the next new GA release of the Alation Catalog. Alation provides 4 releases a year, which means Sandbox will be up and running for a total of 8 weeks per year. This applies to all Sandbox offers.

Cloud Sandbox Offers

Customers can choose from two different types of the Cloud Sandbox environment:

  • Cloud Sandbox

  • Cloud Sandbox Max

Cloud Sandbox

Cloud Sandbox emulates a backup copy of your Production instance for testing new features, data sources, authentication, and new configurations. The Cloud Sandbox will not emulate the hardware requirements of the production instance, therefore, it is not recommended for performance testing.

Cloud Sandbox Max

Cloud Sandbox Max emulates a backup copy of your Production instance for testing new functionality, data sources, authentication, and new configurations. Cloud Sandbox Max also emulates the hardware requirements of the Production instance and therefore, is recommended for performance testing.

Important

For detailed information about the pricing of the Cloud Sandbox, contact your account manager.