# Quickstart: Cloud
## Access to HPC Cloud (short introduction)
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In order to gain access to HPC Centre Cloud, you should take following steps:
1. Log in to ETAIS and authenticate with your TalTech UniID credentials via MyAccessID (TaaT has been removed, if you had an account, you should have received an invitation to join a project, and you need to create a MyAccessID account)
2. Upload your SSH Public Key to ETAIS Portal.
3. Contact us by email (hpcsupport@taltech.ee), in Teams (HPC Support Chat) or through [Helpdesk](software.md) to be added to a Project.
4. Get familiar with ETAIS documentation [here](https://etais.ee/self_service/).
## Access to HPC Cloud (long version)
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HPC Centre runs OpenStack-based Cloud. In order to gain access to it, you should take following steps:
1. Log in to ETAIS and authenticate with your TalTech UniID credentials via MyAccessID
For this the following steps should be done:
1.1 Go to ETAIS and chose 'sign in with MyAccessID.
![etais-login-1 alt ><](pictures/etais-login-1.png)
1.2 Chose TalTech as identity provider
![etais-login-2 alt ><](pictures/etais-login-2.png)
1.3 Log in using your UniID
![etais-login-3 alt ><](pictures/etais-login-3.png)
1.4 Confirm your data
![etais-login-4](pictures/etais-login-4.png)
1.5 Fill in the required fields, agree with term of use and press submit button.
![etais-login-5](pictures/etais-login-5.png)
2. Upload your SSH Public Key to ETAIS Portal. For this go to SSH page.
![etais-login-6](pictures/etais-login-6.png)
Add your public key (`id_rsa.pub`) to the correcponging field.
![etais-login-7](pictures/etais-login-7.png)
How to get SSH keys can be read [here](ssh.md).
3. Contact us by email (hpcsupport@taltech.ee), in Teams (HPC Support Chat) or through [Helpdesk](software.md) to be added to a Project.
4. Get familiar with ETAIS documentation [here](https://etais.ee/self_service/).