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Sign up for an SAP HANA Cloud Trial account

Beginner
10 min.
SAP HANA Cloud, Beginner, Tutorial
Learn about the SAP HANA Cloud trial and the process to sign up for it.
You will learn
  • Differences between a trial SAP HANA Cloud instance and a non trial instance
  • The process to sign up for a trial SAP BTP account
danielvaDan van LeeuwenMay 30, 2025
Created by
VijayKrishnanSR
August 3, 2021
Contributors
VijayKrishnanSR
danielva
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This tutorial is part of a mission, in which you will learn in a hands-on, end-to-end setting how to use SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database. SAP offers two free options to use SAP HANA Cloud. This tutorial covers the first option, which is signing up for the SAP HANA Cloud trial. The trial allows you to use SAP HANA Cloud in a test environment and does not require payment details to sign up, whereas the free tier option can be easily upgraded to a paid version but is only available in enterprise accounts. If you would like to learn more about the second option of using SAP HANA Cloud free tier, proceed to this tutorial.

Alex Banner

Help Alex gain business insights using SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.

In this mission, we will help Alex, the CEO of a fictitious company called Best Run Travel to answer a concrete business question with SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database:

  • As a global travel agency, Best Run Travel has data from many different affiliates.
  • Alex needs to know the top 5 partners of their agency and wants to find out the days with maximum booking of each partner.
  • Best Run Travel uses SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database to store and manage all its data. Now, your mission is to help Alex find a subset of the data related to the partner sales and create a way for Alex to share this subset with other departments in Best Run Travel.
  • Step 1

    • You can use your trial account to test the following components: SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database and SAP HANA Cloud, data lake.

    • If your trial account remains inactive, you will be asked to extend your trial every 30 days. If you regularly log in to your trial account, your trial account will be automatically extended up to 90 days.

    • Basic and Advanced trial accounts cannot be upgraded to a paid version; only Free Tier accounts have the option to upgrade to a paid version.

    • If you already use other services in SAP Business Technology Platform, those will not be affected or limited in any way by your participation in the SAP HANA Cloud trial.

    • Trial database instances are stopped on a nightly basis. Each time you start working with your trial instance, you need to restart it first.

    • If you do not restart your instance within 30 days, it will be deleted. Your trial account, however, will continue to exist and you can easily provision an instance again, if you wish to do so.

    • The configuration of your trial instance of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database is 16 GB of memory, 1 vCPU, and 80 GB of storage.

    • Features such as JSON document store and Script Server require larger HANA Cloud configurations (3 vCPUs, 45 GB of memory) and are therefore not supported in a trial account.

  • Step 2

    In this step, you can learn how to sign up for the trial of SAP HANA Cloud. If you already have an SAP BTP trial account, proceed to the next step to add the appropriate entitlements to your account.

    1. Click on this link to get to the try and buy page.

      Screenshot Trial signup1

      Select the Advanced trial option, and don’t forget to come back here after you signed up.
      Screenshot Trial signup3
      Once you received your confirmation email, you can continue with this mission.

    2. You will then receive a confirmation email with a link to access your trial.

      Open the trial

      It is important to note that the first time you access your trial, you will need to choose your identity provider (you can choose the default). Additionally, if you have two-factor authentication enabled, you will have to enter the security token that is sent to you based on the method of authentication you have chosen.

    Congratulations, you have successfully signed up for the SAP HANA Cloud trial! Learn how you can start using SAP HANA Cloud in the next tutorial.

  • Step 3

    Which of the aspects about the SAP HANA Cloud trial are correct?

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