Create a TiDB Cloud Premium Instance

This document describes how to create a TiDB Cloud Premium instance in the TiDB Cloud console.

Before you begin

If you do not have a TiDB Cloud account, click here to sign up for an account.

• You can either sign up with email and password so that you can manage your password using TiDB Cloud, or sign up with your Google, GitHub, or Microsoft account.
• For AWS Marketplace users, you can also sign up through AWS Marketplace. To do that, search for TiDB Cloud in AWS Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• For Azure Marketplace users, you can also sign up through Azure Marketplace. To do that, search for TiDB Cloud in Azure Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• For Google Cloud Marketplace users, you can also sign up through Google Cloud Marketplace. To do that, search for TiDB Cloud in Google Cloud Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.
• For Alibaba Cloud Marketplace users, you can also sign up through Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. To do that, search for TiDB Cloud in Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, subscribe to TiDB Cloud, and then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your TiDB Cloud account.

Steps

If you have the Organization Owner role, you can create a TiDB Cloud Premium instance as follows:

1. Log in to the TiDB Cloud console, and then click Switch to Private Preview in the lower-left corner to open the TiDB Instances page for TiDB Cloud Premium.

   Note

   If Switch to Private Preview is not visible in the lower-left corner of your TiDB Cloud console, it means that your organization has not been invited to the private preview of TiDB Cloud Premium. In this case, you can click ? in the lower-right corner of the TiDB Cloud console and click Request Support to apply for TiDB Cloud Premium.

2. On the TiDB Instances page, click Create Instance.

3. Enter a name for your TiDB Cloud Premium instance.

4. Choose a cloud provider and a region where you want to host your instance.

5. Specify the minimum and maximum number of Request Capacity Units (RCUs) for your instance

   RCUs represent the compute resources provisioned for your workload. TiDB Cloud automatically scales your instance within this range based on demand.

6. Click Create.

   The instance creation process begins. If this is your first instance in the selected region, provisioning typically takes about 30 minutes. If the selected region already has existing instances, the process is faster and usually completes within about 1 minute.

What's next

After your instance is created, follow the instructions in Connect to TiDB Cloud via Public Endpoint to create a password for your instance.