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title: Get started
description: Create a Metis Cloud account, create your first instance, finish its setup and learn your way around the console.
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Follow these pages in order. By the end, you will have a running instance at its own address, and you will be signed in to it as its owner.

1. [Create an account](/cloud/get-started/create-an-account): sign up for the Metis Cloud console and confirm your email.
2. [Create an instance](/cloud/get-started/create-an-instance): pick an address and a plan, then pay.
3. [Finish setup](/cloud/get-started/finish-setup): create the owner account on your new instance with the setup code.
4. [Find your way around](/cloud/get-started/find-your-way-around): the top bar, the **Instances** page and the instance tabs.