Deploying Free Evaluation Instances

If you are not yet an InterSystems IRIS user, you can explore its many features and try it out with your preferred languages and tools and your own code by deploying a free evaluation instance. There are several options for doing this:

On a public cloud node by creating an account on or logging in to Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services, going gto the platform’s marketplace page, and searching for InterSystems IRIS.
In a container on the system of your choice by pulling the Community Edition image from the InterSystems Container Registry (ICR)Opens in a new tab or Docker HubOpens in a new tab.

InterSystems IRIS Community Edition

InterSystems IRIS Community Edition comes with a free built-in 13-month license (and some functionality restrictions). You can deploy Community Edition in two ways:

On a public cloud node by creating an account on or logging in to Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services, going gto the platform’s marketplace page, and searching for InterSystems IRIS.
In a container on the system of your choice by pulling the Community Edition image from the InterSystems Container Registry (ICR)Opens in a new tab or Docker HubOpens in a new tab.

For instructions for deploying and using InterSystems IRIS Community Edition in the cloud or on your own system, see Deploy and Explore InterSystems IRISOpens in a new tab.

InterSystems Learning Labs

The InterSystems Learning LabsOpens in a new tab web page lets you quickly and easily launch a lab instance of InterSystems IRIS for training, development, and testing, with a free 30-day license. Your InterSystems Learning Labs instance includes an integrated IDE and plenty of samples to work with, and you can connect your own IDE.

To launch an InterSystems Learning Labs instance, you must be logged in to learning.intersystems.comOpens in a new tab; you can easily create an account if you do not have one. (Like Community Edition, the Learning Labs instance has some functionality restrictions.)