Security Center offers a 7-day free trial of the Enterprise edition for Basic edition users. If you need advanced features like threat detection, web tamper proofing, application protection, and vulnerability fixing, you can apply for a trial. This topic explains how to apply for the 7-day free trial of Security Center.
Prerequisites
Your Alibaba Cloud account must meet the following criteria to apply for a free trial:
You have not previously applied for a 7-day free trial of Security Center.
You are a Security Center Basic user and have at least one Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance in your account.
ImportantIf you previously purchased a paid edition of Security Center and did not renew your subscription after it expired, your edition automatically downgrades to Basic. In this case, you cannot apply for the 7-day free trial.
Trial edition and features
Available edition
You can apply for a 7-day free trial of Security Center Enterprise, which includes access to all features of this edition.
To try Security Center Ultimate, you can submit a ticket to request a free trial. Security Center Ultimate provides container security capabilities not available in Security Center Enterprise, while all other features are the same across both editions.
Available features
Feature | Available quotas |
Fix up to 20 vulnerabilities | |
Protect up to 10 application processes | |
10 GB log storage capacity | |
Scan up to 100 images | |
Protect up to 20 servers |
You cannot use the anti-ransomware feature during the free trial. You must pay to enable it.
Any value-added features, such as web tamper proofing and container image scanning enabled during the trial, become unavailable once the trial ends. To continue using these features, you must purchase them.
Apply for a 7-day free trial
Log on to the Security Center console. In the upper-left corner of the console, select the region where your assets are deployed: China or Outside China.
On the Overview page, click Try Now.
If the Welcome to Security Center dialog box appears, click Free Trial Enterprise Edition in the dialog.
After the operation is complete, you can start a 7-day free trial of Security Center Enterprise. You can view the information about Enterprise Edition (Trial) in the upper-right corner of the Overview page.
What to do after the 7-day free trial
After the 7-day free trial, Security Center automatically downgrades to the Basic edition. The Basic edition offers free detection of vulnerabilities, logins from unapproved locations, and brute-force attacks. However, it does not support automatic vulnerability fixing or attack handling.
If you need features such as antivirus, advanced threat detection and automatic handling, web tamper proofing, AccessKey and password leak prevention, and compliance assessment, you must use the Anti-virus Edition or a higher edition. For details about the features supported by each edition, see Features. For the billing of each edition, see Billing overview.