Do we need to pay for the full license to have a test jira environment (Data Centre version)

[JIRAfied]

We are trying to stand up a JIRA/Confluence Data Centre solution hosted on AWS cloud in our organization. We intend to have 2 instances, one for the production and the other one as a Test/Dev only environment (non-prod). 

Is there a way where we can get a non-prod instance for free so we can replicate the production jira instance on the test environment? If not, can we replicate the complete data centre instance on a one-time paid server instance of JIRA?

Please suggest an efficient way to execute the requirement.

Thanks in advance!

[DPK J]

@JIRAfiedNo you don't have to pay for test/staging server licences, Atlassian provide them to you for free.

You can follow this guide - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-get-a-jira-developer-license-744526918.html

Also to setup test environment checkout this guide - https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/creating-a-test-environment-for-jira-966063324.html

[JIRAfied]

@DPK J Thank you for the answer :)

Will try this and get back to you if I need any additional help. Thanks once again.