In this post, you will learn to create SAP SAP BTP trial account that can be used for hands-on practice of ABAP on HANA and ABAP Cloud.
This is a free trial account provided by SAP with initial trial period of 90 days. All you need is a personal email account, a phone number and appetite to learn. Preferably, do not use official email address as it should be use for company business only.
Step by step guide to create SAP SAP BTP trial account
1. Go to URL https://www.sap.com/index.html and click the Log On icon in the top-right corner.

If you already have an account with SAP, login using the account. Otherwise you can register for new account.

Phone number provided will be used for validation. So, use a working phone number.

2. You will receive an email from SAP to finalize your account.

Follow the guided steps in the next pop-ups to complete the account and then log into the account.
3. Use the below URL to start the BTP trial account.
https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/trial.html

4. Click on the ‘Click here to start your trial!’ button.

5. You may need to verify your phone number and accept terms and conditions. These steps keep on changing in sequence or look and feel and are also generic steps.
6. Once you get to below pop-up, select US East(VA) – AWS option and click on Create Account.

7. Wait while the account is set up and all steps are completed.

8. Your trial account is set when you see below pop-up. Click Continue.

9. Click on Go To Your Trial Account.

10. Your trial account page will look like below. Click on the Subaccount ‘trial’

11. Notice that there is one Active Subscription created already. Click on Active Subscription.

12. One of the automatic subscription You can see SAP Business Application Studio. This is the new place to develop applications on BTP including UI5/Fiori applications.

Congratulations !!! You have created your SAP BTP trial account.
Exciting stuff ahead. In the next post, we will see how to create ABAP on a Cloud instance and access it from Eclipse.
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