# Get started with Scrapy Cloud

Scrapy Cloud is a service that allows running web scraping code in the cloud.

Scrapy Cloud is designed for [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org) projects, but [can support other
technologies](usage/reference/entry.md#sc-write-entrypoint).

## First steps

1. Sign up for Scrapy Cloud on the [Zyte dashboard](https://app.zyte.com/) for [free](pricing.md#sc-pricing).
2. [Follow our web scraping tutorial](../web-scraping/tutorials/main/index.md#tutorial), which covers running a
   job in Scrapy Cloud.

## Using Scrapy Cloud

See [Scrapy Cloud usage](usage/index.md#sc-usage) for general usage help.

[Scrapy Cloud reference](usage/reference/index.md#sc-reference) provides detailed reference documentation.