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Traffic is excluded from the trial usage display: 'Traffic, Windows licenses, backup, or S3 object storage are not currently displayed'","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"source_url":"https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/faq/trial-conditions"},"interface":["ssh","rest"],"interface_detail":"IONOS Cloud virtual servers over SSH, the Data Center Designer web UI, and a REST API. One static IP is included in the trial pool.","tooling":"any SSH client; the DCD console; the Cloud API","chaining":"The largest trial shape at 8 cores and 20 GiB, but it needs a card, a company name and a phone call from a sales manager, which is three gates where the operator's constraint is zero.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"8 cores, 20 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD, 600 GB SSD, 1 static IP","source":"https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/faq/trial-conditions"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"30 days, or EUR 500 of consumption, whichever comes first","source":"https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/faq/trial-conditions"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"company details and a credit card, plus a sales phone call within 24 hours on working days","source":"https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/faq/trial-conditions"}],"binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The card and the company field come first, and the sales call is a human gate on top: the trial does not convert to a machine without all three.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card required, hold amount not published: quoted 'After you enter your company and credit card details, you will have access to a test account within a few minutes.' The page also states 'if, for example, a credit card or phone number verification was not completed successfully, another phone call is needed', so a phone check is implied. No authorisation amount is stated on the trial-conditions page read today; the separate IONOS order page describes a test charge that is cancelled, with the amount unpublished.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The 8 cores, 20 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD, 600 GB SSD, 1 static IP, the 30-day limit and the EUR 500 ceiling are all quoted from IONOS's own trial-conditions page read today. The card authorisation amount is not published there and is recorded as unpublished rather than guessed.","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/faq/trial-conditions","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'During the trial period, 8 cores, 20 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD storage, and 1 static IP address are available by the standard. 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