# Reasons For Choosing TiDB Cloud - DBaaS
+ Fully-Managed
+ Seamless scalability
+ Built-in high availability and disaster recovery
+ A horizontal scalable `NoSQL` database with `SQL (MySQL)` and transaction compatibility
+ Auto sharding without any changes in your application
+ Out-of-box `Big Data` capability with Zero-ETL
+ Store and retrieve any amount of data
+ Serve any volume of request traffic
+ Multi-Cloud
+ Compliance: `SOC 2 Type II`, `ISO/IEC 27001:2013`, `SO/IEC 27701`, `PCI-DSS`, `GDPR`
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Combined with public cloud, in TiDB Cloud service, you have almost unlimited computing nodes and the storage capacity.

By using TiDB Cloud, many ops and maintenance tasks are eliminated, you can have a fully managed TiDB cluster service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. The database can store and retrieve any amount of data, serve any level of request traffic. TiDB Cloud automatically spreads the data and traffic for the table over the number of servers specified by user. In order to achieve the promised consistent performance, the only necessary variable you need to control, is the number of TiDB or TiKV nodes.

Last, security and compliance are priority 0. TiDB Cloud is audited and certified by 3rd parties. So you can get your business started quickly and safely.