Ours only has one company. I’m used to seeing 6 companies and a lot of training docs refer to multiple. Support is telling us that cloud education DBs only get one and we can add another as needed with our license. While true, it doesn’t include the data that is referred to in any of the ELC training courses. Makes it difficult to push users to use the training that’s available when the documentation doesn’t match the data.
The trouble with Cloud Education Databases is that they are still the old Multi-Tenant. Not only can they only see one company, you can’t do anything that MT couldn’t: Code Widgets, etc.
Going back to the book, “The Phoenix Project” (or The Unicorn Project), it’s a good DevOps practice to be able to quickly spin up Development instances with test (not real) data. I spoke to Bart about it about three years ago. We haven’t heard anything from Epicor on the DevOps Idea, so if you haven’t voted, do so and leave a comment why you think this would be helpful.
I’m sure part of the issue is that Education databases (while paid for) require work to upgrade, etc. Maybe Epicor can charge a small subscription fee for cloud container Dev instances in AKS that you run on your own Azure instance or local Kubernetes cluster? 
Interesting, I hadn’t noticed the SaaS9xx in the education URL. Guess I’m going to be playing in Pilot more than Edu.
I also up voted your idea quite a while back. Most all of my other cloud applications allow for a sandbox spin up any time I need it. Some have time limitations but would be extremely helpful to have that capability in Epicor.
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