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Migrating from a Lite plan to a Standard plan

Migrating from a Lite plan to a Standard plan

Migrating from the free Lite plan to the Standard plan by completing the following tasks.

Authenticate with IBM Cloud Dashboard

  1. Go to the IBM Cloud® Dashboard.
  2. Authenticate with your username and password. The IBM Cloud Dashboard opens to the Resource list.

Select your IBM Cloudant instance

  1. Under Services, open the IBM Cloudant instance that you want to migrate.
  2. Select Plan.
  3. From the list of pricing plans, select Standard.
    Standard plan is a serverless scaling of throughput and storage. Includes 20 GB of free data storage, more storage metered. Users can adjust provisioned throughput capacity in blocks of 100 reads/sec, 50 writes/sec, 5 global queries/sec. Max JSON document size of 1 MB. $1.00 USD/GB of data storage. $0.25 USD/Read capacity. $0.50 USD/Write capacity. $5.00 USD/Global Query capacity.
    Standard plan

Upgrade to the Standard plan

  1. Click Upgrade. All your existing data is kept.
  2. Adjust your capacity by using the Throughput Capacity slider to increase or decrease capacity as needed.

Now, you're ready to go.