Salesforce Sandboxes create isolated copies of your production environment. These replicas allow teams to safely test changes (eg new features or code) and conduct implementations like Agentforce and Data Cloud, without risking live data. Multiple sandboxes speed up collaborative deployment and improve version control, avoiding system downtime.
Plan, build, test, deploy, and train users in secure environments. Follow development, security, and operations best practices for projects like Agentforce, Data Cloud, custom pages, integrations, and more.
Experiment with real production data and metadata safely. Streamline your development lifecycle with Partial Sandboxes, leveraging data templates to quickly populate environments with targeted datasets and ensure efficient testing. Use Full Sandboxes with Quick Create to empower rapid environment setup and spin up complete copies of production with minimal effort, accelerating innovation and reducing deployment risks.
Provision a fully featured Data Cloud instance directly in a net-new or refreshed sandbox. Configure and test AI tools within a sandbox to verify that they deliver precise insights and accurate predictions. Test your Agentforce Actions and Skills thoroughly, including ones powered by Data Cloud data. Run performance and output checks on actions that call Data Cloud data streams before promoting new Agentforce or Data Cloud features to production.
Run realistic tests in Sandboxes by simulating high-volume user traffic before promoting new features to production. Quickly test application performance and functionality at peak loads to ensure a smooth end-user experience after deployment.
Salesforce offers several lightweight development environments which facilitate rapid development and testing in isolated spaces: Scratch Orgs, Developer, and Developer Pro sandboxes. With Quick Cloning, developers can instantly replicate environments, drastically reducing setup time and boosting productivity.
Double the data storage capacity for Developer and Developer Pro Sandboxes to ensure your testing environments can handle realistic data volumes. Building, testing, and iterating without storage constraints leads to faster, more reliable deployments and a significant reduction of production errors.
Enhance metadata tracking and visualization with the latest management tool within sandboxes. Gain unparalleled visibility into your org metadata, rapid access to critical tracking features, and a unified view of every modification across your entire sandbox, ensuring you stay on top of every tweak and adjustment.
Avoid exposing sensitive production data in Salesforce Sandboxes and dynamically mask Data Cloud streams based on user permissions. Seed data between refreshes and permanently obscure selected data in Sandboxes on creation, before seeding, and after refreshing.
Expedite your development cycles while protecting sensitive data. Grant specific users access to a sandbox to enhance security, streamline user setup, and speed up sandbox provisioning.
Gain more control over Sandbox data residency with Hyperforce, Salesforce's next-gen infrastructure architecture designed for the public cloud. When you leverage sandboxes within Hyperforce, you can ensure that your development and testing environments adhere to the same data residency policies as your production org. This allows for compliant and secure testing of your applications.
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A sandbox development environment is a replica of the production environment where you can plan, build, test, and deploy new features or settings.
It will reduce IT cost and speed up keeping your Salesforce up to date by building and testing outside of the production environment. This will decrease the risk of breaking the production environment.
Yes. Doing a test or making any changes in your production environment is high risk. You need to consider using sandboxes to prevent from breaking the production environment and stopping your business whenever you need to make changes.
Reducing the risk of breaking the production environment which will lower the IT cost. It will also speed up the development process to keep the application up to date and meet user's needs.
We have several options where you can choose based on your needs of activity you want to do on sandbox environments.
There are several pricing options for Salesforce Sandboxes here.
