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title: "What is the lifecycle of a Fortanix DSM SaaS Trial Account?"
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# What is the lifecycle of a Fortanix DSM SaaS Trial Account?

### 1.0 Trial Account Lifecycle

A trial account is meant for customers to try any or all of the features of the Fortanix-Data-Security-Manager (DSM) Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for **free** for 30 days.

Data of Trial accounts will not be retained unless it is converted to a production account before the account is permanently deleted (6 months/180 days post the trial period expiration).

Conversion of Trial account to Production account can happen anytime after a trial account is created and before that Trial account is permanently deleted.

While the account is in the Trial period, it is considered to be in [Active State](/v1/docs/what-are-the-fortanix-dsm-saas-account-states). Once the trial period is expired, the account transitions into an [Inactive State](/v1/docs/what-are-the-fortanix-dsm-saas-account-states), and stays in this state until it is converted to production or permanently deleted after 180 days.

### 2.0 Restrictions During the Expired Period

Once the Trial period is expired (30 days), the customer will **not be**able to:

- Create or modify any security objects.

or
- Perform any crypto operation on the existing security objects.

Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) is the world’s first cloud service secured with Intel® SGX. With Fortanix DSM, you can securely generate, store, and use cryptographic keys and certificates, as well as other secrets such as passwords, API keys, tokens, or any blob of data. Your business-critical applications and containers can integrate with Fortanix DSM using legacy cryptographic interfaces (PKCS#11, CNG, and JCE) or using the native Fortanix DSM RESTful interface.

## Related

- [How do I Check the Fortanix DSM SaaS Status in Real-time?](/how-do-i-check-the-fortanix-dsm-saas-status-in-real-time.md)
- [How does Fortanix DSM SaaS Work?](/how-does-fortanix-dsm-saas-work.md)
- [Fortanix DSM - Quickstart](/fortanix-data-security-manager-quickstart.md)