# Get started with ScyllaDB Cloud

Follow along this video to get started:

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Or use the instructions outlined below to set up [AWS EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) instances and [ScyllaDB Cloud](https://cloud.scylladb.com/) and run 1 million ops/sec workload.

## Prerequisites

* AWS account and CLI credentials (more information on acquiring the credentials [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-files.html) and [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html), for OKTA you can use [gimme-aws-creds](https://github.com/Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds))
* ScyllaDB Cloud API token (get your API token [here](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/api-docs/api-get-started.html))
* Terraform installed on your machine (installation instructions [here](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli))

### AWS permissions

Make sure that you have sufficient AWS permissions to create the following items:

* VPC
* Subnets
* Security groups
* EC2 instances (three)

## Configure Terraform and set up infrastructure

1. Clone the repository:
   ```default
   git clone https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb-1m-ops-demo.git
   cd scylladb-1m-ops-demo/
   ```
2. Set the required items in `variables.tf`:
   ```terraform
   #
   # Set the following variables (mandatory)
   #

   # ScyllaDB Cloud API token
   variable "scylla_cloud_token" {
   description = "ScyllaDB Cloud API token"
   type        = string
   default     = "ADD-YOUR-API-TOKEN-HERE"
   }

   # ScyllaDB Cloud region
   variable "scylla_cloud_region" {
   description = "ScyllaDB Cloud region of the cluster"
   type        = string
   default     = "eu-north-1"
   }

   # SSH private key for EC2 instance access
   variable "ssh_private_key" {
   description = "SSH private key location for EC2 instance access"
   type        = string
   default     = "/home/user/Documents/your-private-key.pem"
   }

   variable "aws_key_pair" {
   description = "Key pair name in AWS"
   type        = string
   default     = "my-key-pair"
   }

   # AWS credentials file
   variable "aws_creds" {
   description = "AWS credentials location"
   type        = string
   default     = "/home/user/.aws/credentials"
   }
   ```
3. Run Terraform:
   ```bash
   terraform init
   terraform plan
   terraform apply

   Do you want to perform these actions?
   Terraform will perform the actions described above.
   Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

   Enter a value: yes

   [...]

   Apply complete! Resources: 23 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
   ```

Setting up the infrastructure takes 15+ minutes. Once Terraform is finished it takes another 2-3 minutes to reach 1M ops/sec.

Go to [ScyllaDB Cloud console](https://cloud.scylladb.com/clusters/list), select your newly created cluster `ScyllaDB-Cloud-Demo` and open `Monitoring` to see the workload live:
![ScyllaDB Monitoring 1 million ops/sec](../../scylladb-cloud/images/scylladb-monitoring.png) After finishing the demo, don’t forget to destroy the infrastructure to avoid unnecessary costs:

```default
terraform destroy
```