Upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go Account

1. Login to your IBM Cloud account,
2. Go to account settings,

1. Click the Add credit card button, to create the Pay-As-You-Go account, which will unlock the full catalog,

1. Select the Account type, choose between Company and Personal. For the setup, I will choose Personal. Click Next,

1. Enter your Billing Information, click Next,

1. Enter your Payment information, click Next,

1. Acknowledge that your card will not be charged, but a $1.00 hold will be placed while authorizing the card,
2. Click Upgrade Account,

1. You will receive $200 credit, in case you want to use paid services,
2. Click Done,
3. Under Account settings you should now see Account Type as Pay-As-You-Go.
4. Go to the IBM Cloud Catalog and filter Free and Lite services.

Free and Lite Services

At the time of writing this setup 115 free and lite services were listed, among other:

• Analytics Engine,
• API Connect,
• API Gateway,
• App Connect,
• App ID,
• Auto Scale for VPC,
• Certificate Manager,
• Cloudant,
• Code Engine,
• Container Registry,
• Continuous Delivery,
• DB2,
• Direct Link Connect,
• Discovery,
• Event Streams with Kafka,
• Hyper Protect,
• LogDNA,
• Sysdig,
• IBM Cognos,
• Internet of Things Platform,
• Internet Services with CloudFlare,
• Key Protect,
• Knowledge Studio,
• Kubernetes Service,
• Language Translator,
• Load Balancer for VPC,
• Machine Learning,
• MQ,
• Natural Language Classifier,
• Natural Language Understanding,
• Object Storage,
• PagerDuty,
• Schematics with Terraform,
• Secrets Manager,
• Secure Gateway,
• Speech to Text,
• SQL Query, Object Storage with ANSI SQL,
• Streaming Analytics,
• Text to Speech,
• Tone Analyzer,
• Toolchain,
• Twilio,
• Visual Recognition,
• Voice Agent with Watson,
• Watson Assistant,
• Watson Knowledge Catalog,
• Watson OpenScale,
• Watson Studio,