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Upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go Account

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

Account Settings

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

Account Settings - Unlock the full catalog

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

Account Settings - Personal

  1. Enter your Billing Information, click Next,

Account Settings - Personal - Billing Information

  1. Enter your Payment information, click Next,

Account Settings - Personal - Payment Information

  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,

Account Settings - 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,