# Exercises 2: Overview

## Overview
+ In these exercises, connect to TiDB Cloud cluster through `Standard Connection`, `VPC Peering`, and `Web SQL Shell`.

## Notes:
+ We choose AWS as the Cloud provider. If you choose GCP as your cloud provider, please follow the instructions in [Set up VPC peering on GCP](https://docs.pingcap.com/tidbcloud/set-up-vpc-peering-connections#set-up-vpc-peering-on-gcp).