The topics in this section explain how to provision atrial (evaluation)Apigee instance.
You can evaluate Apigee at no cost for 60 days with a trial (evaluation) Apigee organization.
Evaluation organizations are an excellent way to test the functionality and feature offerings of Apigee, subject to the
following limitations:
Free trial (evaluation) organizations are limited to a 60-day lifespan, after which the organization is deleted.
Evaluation organizations are subject to Google'sPre-GA Offerings termsand
should not be used for production workloads or to store sensitive data.
Apigee's evaluation organizations are not regularly updated with the latest Apigee features and security patches.
Evaluation organizations can't be converted to paid organizations. Any resources created in the evaluation organization must be exported
in order to be used in a paid organization.
You can find steps for provisioning eval organizations using a UI or the
command line, as noted in the table below.
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