--- schema_version: "1" id: b36216d338cde4447424853f604dad08abcb6f0f27c522d9b0cb66ea4fcf00fc title: Data 360 in a Sandbox collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/data/264-0-0/c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 4af19e7a0f25235390748341b92930a6a1391a54bcfede27ba7a28bdfc3fef5d description: Use a Data 360 sandbox to test data ingestion, modeling, and identity resolution without affecting live customer profiles. A sandbox provides a secure testing environment by copying metadata from your production Data 360 org. Sandbox usage consumes credits from your production org. products: - Data 360 release: "264" --- # Data 360 in a Sandbox Use a Data 360 sandbox to test data ingestion, modeling, and identity resolution without affecting live customer profiles. A sandbox provides a secure testing environment by copying metadata from your production Data 360 org. Sandbox usage consumes credits from your production org. ## Benefits of a Sandbox Environment With sandboxes and deployment tools, you can: - Test changes against copies of your production data and users. - Provide a training environment. - Test AppExchange packages or integrations. - Isolate customization and development work from your production environment until you’re ready to deploy changes. ## Types of Sandboxes Data 360 supports all sandbox types: Developer, Developer Pro, Partial Copy, and Full Copy. When you provision Data 360 in a sandbox, it contains only metadata. You can't replicate data even in Partial Copy and Full Copy sandboxes. ## Data 360 Sandbox Storage and Limits Data 360 sandboxes follow production limits and guidelines. They bypass the storage restrictions of Salesforce sandboxes, such as the 200-MB limit for Developer sandboxes. ## Data 360 License and Setup Requirements To use Data 360 in a sandbox, provision Data Cloud licenses and maintain an active Data 360 tenant in your production org. The sandbox depends on this production setup. To activate Data 360 in the sandbox, first turn on and configure it in production. ## Supported Features This table lists the Data 360 features available in a Data 360 sandbox and describes their expected behavior. Data 360 Feature The specific Data 360 capability or feature. Functional in Sandbox The feature operates in the sandbox environment. Replicated in Sandbox The sandbox copies the feature's metadata from your production org during creation. Deployable from Sandbox You can deploy the feature's configuration changes from the sandbox to your production org. When you create a sandbox, it excludes some Data 360 features from production replication. However, you can manually recreate these features in the sandbox. For available features, you can create objects directly in your sandbox. These objects remain local to the sandbox environment and bypass deployment back to production.

Data 360 Feature	Functional in Sandbox	Replicated in Sandbox	Deployable from Sandbox
Activation: Amazon S3
Activation: SFTP, Microsoft Azure, GCS
Activation: Marketing Cloud
Activation: Native - Data Cloud
Activation: Commerce Cloud, Loyalty, Marketing Cloud Personalization
Activation: AgentExchange partners (Liveramp, Criteo, Tradedesk)
Activation: API Activation
Activation: Ad Audiences partners (Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn)
Activation: Communication capping enabled (Marketing Cloud, SFTP, and Microsoft Azure)
Activation: Activation Templates
Activation: Batch DMO
Activation: Streaming (Meta CAPI & Linkedin CAPI)
Activation target: Amazon S3
Activation target: SFTP, Microsoft Azure, GCS
Activation target: Marketing Cloud
Activation target: Native - Data 360
Activation target: Commerce Cloud, Loyalty, Marketing Cloud Personalization
Activation target: AgentExchange partners (Liveramp, Criteo, Tradedesk)
Activation target: Ad Audiences partners (Google Ads, Amazon Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn)		(with manual authentication)
Activation target: Communication capping enabled (Marketing Cloud, SFTP, and Microsoft Azure)
Advertising Audiences: Marketing Cloud Advertising
Zero Copy - Databricks
Zero Copy - Google BigQuery
Zero Copy - Redshift
Zero Copy - Snowflake
Calculated insight - builder
Calculated insight - SQL
Calculated insight - streaming
Clean room - packages
Clean room - mapped templates
Clean room - collaborations
Connector - Amazon S3
Connector - Amazon Kinesis
Connector - Azure
Connector - B2C
Connector - CRM
Connector - Google Cloud Storage
Connector - Ingestion API
Connector - Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Connector - Marketing Cloud Engagement
Connector - Marketing Cloud Personalization
Connector - Mobile SDK
Connector - Snowflake
Connector - Web SDK
Data action - CRM
Data action - Marketing Cloud Engagement
Data action - Webhook
Data action target - Marketing Cloud Engagement
Data action target - Salesforce Platform
Data action target - Webhook
Data 360 reports
Data graph
Data Governance - Tag
Data lake object (DLO)
Data model object (DMO)
Data share
Data share target - Snowflake
Data space - custom
Data space - default
Data transform - batch and streaming
Einstein Studio
Identity resolution
Private Connect for Data Cloud
Salesforce Platform - Data Cloud enrichments - copy fields
Salesforce Platform - Data Cloud enrichments - related lists
Salesforce Platform - Flow
Salesforce Platform - Lightning Web Components
Salesforce Platform - Data Clean Room
Salesforce Platform - Apex
Search Index Configurations
Service Intelligence
Standard Segment - DBT
Standard Segment - Visual Builder
Segment - Real-Time
Segment - Waterfall
Unstructured Data Lake Object (DLO)
Unstructured Data Model Object (DMO)

## Additional Resources To learn more about this topic, review the associated Trailhead content. ![Trailhead icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-data-data_cloud-264-0-0-production-enus/f3569962-3c9b-4f83-9d0c-b6a574e785da/data_cloud/images/landing_trailhead_alt.png)[Data 360 Sandboxes](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/data-360-sandboxes?trail_id=data-360-develop-and-build-solutions) ![Graphic divider](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-data-data_cloud-264-0-0-production-enus/f3569962-3c9b-4f83-9d0c-b6a574e785da/data_cloud/images/Comms_DC_Divider_tan.png) - **[Considerations for Sandbox in Data 360](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_consideration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Refer to these considerations when creating a sandbox and deploying changes from a sandbox in Data 360. - **[Billing Considerations for Data 360 Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_billing_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Understand how Data 360 sandbox usage consumes flex credits and learn strategies to reduce sandbox costs. - **[Create a Data 360 Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Develop, test, and train on Data 360 without affecting your production org. Data 360 supports all sandbox types—Developer, Developer Pro, Partial Copy, and Full Copy—but provisions only metadata. Even when you create Partial Copy or Full Copy sandboxes, your production data stays protected. No data is replicated to Data 360 sandboxes. - **[Remove Legacy Metadata from a Data 360 Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_remove_legacy_metadata_in_data360_sandbox.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Data 360 sandboxes configured before August 2024 may contain legacy metadata. Use the cleanup process to remove legacy metadata from the sandbox. - **[Deploy Data 360 Changes Across Orgs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_deploy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** You can make Data 360 changes in a sandbox and then deploy them to a production org or another sandbox org. Additionally, you can deploy changes from one production org to another production by using a sandbox. Use a DevOps data kit and a change set to deploy the changes to a production org. - **[Replicate Data 360 Configurations Using Local Data Kits](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_replicate_data360_configurations_using_local_data_kits.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Move Data 360 metadata and process definitions between data spaces within the same sandbox using the local data kit deployment method. Create a standard data kit in your default data space, and then use a change set to deploy it to other data spaces. - **[Replicate Data 360 Sandboxes Using Cloning](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_use_cloning_to_replicate_data360_sandboxes.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Clone an existing parent sandbox to reuse Data 360 metadata and configurations, create testing environments faster, and streamline complex DevOps workflows. When you clone a sandbox with Data 360 provisioned, you automatically carry over the same Data 360 metadata and configurations to the cloned sandbox. This process saves setup time and avoids manual configuration. - **[Deploy Direct-DMO Customizations to Production with Sandbox Mergeback](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_mergeback.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Starting in Winter '26, you can package and deploy customizations containing direct data model object (DMO) relationship metadata from sandbox to production environments. #### See Also - [_Salesforce Help_: Considerations for Sandbox in Data Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_consideration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Refer to these considerations when creating a sandbox and deploying changes from a sandbox in Data 360.") - [_Trailhead_: Data 360 Sandboxes](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/data-360-sandboxes?trail_id=data-360-develop-and-build-solutions) - [_Salesforce Help_: Create a Data 360 Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_create.htm&type=5&language=en_US) - [_Salesforce Help_: Deploy Data 360 Changes from a Sandbox](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_data_cloud_sandbox_deploy.htm&type=5&language=en_US) - [_Salesforce Help_: Sandboxes: Staging Environments for Customizing and Testing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.deploy_sandboxes_parent.htm&type=5&language=en_US)