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title: TiDB Cloud Quick Start
summary: Sign up quickly to try TiDB Cloud and create your TiDB cluster.
category: quick start
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# TiDB Cloud Quick Start

This document describes how to sign up for a trial of TiDB Cloud and how to create your TiDB cluster.

## Overview

The most commonly used operations of TiDB Cloud are as follows:

- [Sign up for a trial](#sign-up-for-a-trial): contact us through the website for a trial, and create your account.
- [Create a TiDB cluster](#create-a-cluster): how to create your first cluster, select cloud provider, region, cluster tier, node number, and so on.
- [Connect to your TiDB cluster](connect-to-tidb-cluster.md): connect to your TiDB Cloud cluster via a SQL client, or SQL shell.
- [Migrate from MySQL](migrate-data-into-tidb.md): migrate your MySQL data to the TiDB Cloud cluster.  

## Sign up for a trial

Now you can visit TiDB Cloud to apply for a trial.

1. Visit <https://pingcap.com/products/tidbcloud/trial>, and submit the following information:

    - Work email
    - First name
    - Last name
    - Company name

2. Finish the account setting. PingCAP support staff will contact you to offer help.

3. After the setting, you will receive an account activation email. Click the verification link in the email to access your TiDB Cloud account.

4. You can invite other members to join your organization after your login. Refer to [Invite a team member](manage-user-access.md#invite-a-team-member) for details.

## Create a cluster

See [Create a TiDB Cloud Cluster](create-tidb-cluster.md).

## Connect to your cluster

See [Connect to Your TiDB Cluster](connect-to-tidb-cluster.md#connect-via-sql-shell).

## Explore SQL with TiDB

See [Explore SQL with TiDB](https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/v4.0/basic-sql-operations).