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title: Service management | Tiger Data Docs
description: Manage your Tiger Cloud service lifecycle in Tiger Console
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From the `Operations` dashboard, you can reset the password, change the environment, convert a free service to a standard one, pause, or delete the service. To fork a service, see [Fork services](../service-management/fork-services).

## Reset your service password

You can reset your service password from the `Operations` dashboard. This is the password you use to connect to your service, not the password for Tiger Console. To reset your Console password, navigate to the `Account` page.

When you reset your service password, you are prompted for your Console password. When you have authenticated, you can create a new service password, ask Console to auto-generate a password, or switch your authentication type between SCRAM and MD5.

SCRAM (salted challenge response authentication mechanism) and MD5 (message digest algorithm 5) are cryptographic authentication mechanisms. Tiger Console uses SCRAM by default. It is more secure and strongly recommended. The MD5 option is provided for compatibility with older clients.

## Change the service environment

In Tiger Cloud, you create services for the following environments:

- Development services: for less demanding tasks, such as ad hoc analytics, testing, or application building. Development services have no delete protection.
- Production services: for mission-critical applications like client-facing dashboards or APIs. Production services have delete protection.

Tiger Cloud applies upgrades differently to development and production services.

To change the environment of an existing service:

1. **In Tiger Console, select the service to update**
2. **Click `Operations` > `Environment`, then change the tag under `Change service environment`**

## Convert a free service to a standard one

You can convert a free service to a standard one, to increase its resources. Note that it is only available if you haven’t reached the quota on the number of standard services according to your pricing plan.

1. **In Tiger Console, select the service to update**
2. **Click `Operations` > `Environment` > `Convert service to standard` > `Yes, convert to standard`**

## Pause a service

You can pause a service if you want to stop it running temporarily. When you pause a service, you are no longer billed for compute resources. However, you do need to continue paying for any storage you are using. Pausing a service ensures that it is still available, and is ready to be restarted at any time.

## Delete a service

You can delete a service to remove it completely. This removes the service and its underlying data from the server. You cannot recover a deleted service.