Welcome to Deployment Options for IBM Cloudant After watching this video, you will be able to: Describe the different deployment plans for IBM Cloudant Describe the free Plan for Cloudant Describe the Standard Plan for Cloudant Describe the Dedicated Hardware Plan for Cloudant There are several IBM Cloudant versions (or Plans) you can deploy, and they are: the Lite plan, the Standard plan, and the Dedicated Hardware plan. We will now take a quick look at each of these plans in a bit more detail. You can sign up for a free Cloudant multi- tenant account at Cloudant.com and then use it for evaluation, prototyping, and development. No credit card is required to sign up for this free plan, and there are no time limitations either. This free deployment version is called the Lite Plan. You can use the Lite Plan to take advantage of a perpetually free Cloudant offering for evaluation and development. The free Lite Plan has a fixed limited amount of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. For example, the provisioned throughput capacity is fixed at 20 reads per second, 10 writes per second and 5 global queries per second, there is also has a maximum size limit of 1MB for a single JSON document in this plan. However, the Lite Plan does provide access to the full functionality of IBM Cloudant for evaluation and development purposes. If you are inactive in your Lite Plan environment for a period of over 30 days, the services are deleted. If your organization wants a fully- managed, but configurable, database-as-a-service production deployment, you can opt for the Cloudant Standard Plan With the Cloudant Standard Plan, you get serverless scaling of throughput and data storage, which you can configure as your app needs change. You can add blocks of 100 Reads per second, 50 writes per second and 5 global queries per second. The Standard Plan offers pay-per-hour pricing, so you can control your costs. The hourly rate is charged on the throughput capacity allocated, not the metered volume of read and write requests. Included in the Standard Plan is 20GB free data storage; with any additional storage usage being metered at a defined cost per GB per hour. If your organizational needs warrant a bare metal dedicated environment for your fully- managed database-as-a-service production deployment, then you should opt for the Cloudant Dedicated Hardware Plan With the Cloudant Dedicated Hardware Plan, IBM set up your Cloudant account on dedicated, single-tenant clusters in the IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Amazon, or Azure data center of your choice. The Cloudant Dedicated Hardware plan is an optional add-on to run one or more of your Standard Plan instances on, and it provides a dedicated environment that benefits from hardware isolation, greater security, and better compliance. The Cloudant Dedicated Hardware Plan includes private endpoints in addition to public endpoints, and also offers IP whitelisting capabilities. The Cloudant Dedicated Hardware Plan is charged as a recurring monthly fee based on how many servers are in your cluster. The fixed price of this plan is in addition to the consumption pricing of the Standard Plan instances that you have deployed on it. It uses daily prorated billing, and has a 1-month minimum duration charge. The plan is available in any IBM Cloud location, and any customers based in the United States can also take advantage of an optional HIPAA-compliant configuration for improved compliance. In this video, you learned that: IBM Cloudant can be deployed in the cloud using the Free Plan, the Standard Plan, or the Dedicated Hardware Plan. The Free Plan can be used for evaluation and development environments, but it has a limited amount of provisioned throughput capacity and data storage. The Standard Plan provides serverless scaling of throughput and data storage, on a pay-per-hour basis. Pricing is based on both the provisioned throughput capacity that is allocated, and the amount of data that is stored. The Dedicated Hardware Plan is setup on dedicated, single-tenant clusters, and is an optional add-on provided to run one or more of your Standard Plan instances on, offering an isolated and secure dedicated environment.
