On Ephemeral Cloud, each new Ephemeral account starts as a two-week free trial to allow you to get a feel for Ephemeral and how it works before you purchase it.
The free trial provides access to all of the Ephemeral features and functions. It does limit the allocated storage for your Ephemeral databases to 100 GB each.
In Tonic Structural, when you choose to write data generation output to Ephemeral, an account is created for if you do not already have one.
To create an Ephemeral free trial account:
Go to the Ephemeral signup page.
To use a corporate Google email address to create the account, click Create account using Google.
Otherwise, to provide the account information:
In the First Name and Last Name fields, type your first and last names.
In the Email Address field, type your email address.
In the Password field, type the password that you want to use for your Ephemeral account.
In the Confirm Password field, type the password again.
Click Create Account. Ephemeral sends an activation email to the email address that you provided.
In the activation email, click Activate account. Ephemeral activates your account.
On the Ephemeral login page, provide your email address and password, then click Log In. Ephemeral displays the use case selection panel.
On the use case selection panel, click each use case that applies to you, then click Next. Ephemeral displays the Databases page.
The quick start checklist highlights Ephemeral's main features.
Importing data from an external source
Starting a new database
Connecting to a database
Managing user snapshots
It also provides information about subsetting in Tonic Structural, which is one way to create a smaller set of data that you might use to create an Ephemeral database or user snapshot.
The checklist displays automatically when you first create your account.
You can close the checklist, for example, to ensure that you can view the entire Ephemeral page.
To reopen the checklist, in the Ephemeral heading, click Quick Start Checklist.
When you click a checklist entry, Ephemeral displays an overview panel for the task.
The overview panel provides a brief description of the task.
Ephemeral can also highlight the option to select in order to perform that task.
As you complete each task, Ephemeral marks the task as complete on the checklist.
When you complete all of the items, Ephemeral replaces the checklist with a panel to indicate that you finished the checklist. The panel includes a link to return to the checklist. It also contains a link to start a chat with the Tonic.ai sales team.
When the free trial period ends, you can no longer start a new database. Ephemeral also deactivates your existing databases.
