Before you use DataWorks, you must prepare an Alibaba Cloud account. This topic describes how to prepare an Alibaba Cloud account.
Register an Alibaba Cloud account
Go to the Alibaba Cloud official website. Click Free Trial in the upper-right corner. On the page that appears, register an Alibaba Cloud account as prompted. For more information, see Create an Alibaba Cloud account.
What to do next
If you want to perform collaborative development in DataWorks together with other users, create RAM users within the Alibaba Cloud account. For more information, see Prepare a RAM user.
Activate DataWorks with the Alibaba Cloud account. For more information, see Activate DataWorks.
The validity period of a DataWorks logon session is 48 hours. The validity period of a RAM logon session is 24 hours, which imposes limits on the validity period of a DataWorks logon session. If the logon duration of your Alibaba Cloud account exceeds 24 hours, you can still perform specific operations such as editing and saving SQL statements on an opened page of the DataWorks console. If you want to access a new page or perform other operations, the system prompts that the session expired. In this case, you must log on to the DataWorks console again.