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# Environments

Environments are a set of deployed infrastructure to be used by the Project at runtime. One single Environment can be thought as a single Deployed Infra capable to live and scale on its own.

## Development Environment

Each project can have 1 environment of type **DEVELOPMENT** which will be used in Dev Mode, to test and try out the APIs being built.

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Currently, this Development Environment is free to use, with Free Tier restrictions applied on it.
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## Dedicated Environments

You can create additional environments in Cosmocloud, as per need. There are 3 types of environments you can create -

### Production Environment

This environment is supposed to act as your Project's Production environment. This environment also acts as a **releasable environment**. You can select the Environment Tier on which the Environment runs and scales out to.

#### Restrictions & Limitations

* You cannot rename this environment.
* You cannot share this environment.

### Staging Environment

This environment is supposed to act as your Project's Staging / Testing / UAT environment. This environment also acts as a **releasable environment**. You can select the Environment Tier on which the Environment runs and scales out to.

#### Restrictions & Limitations

* You cannot rename this environment.
* You cannot share this environment.

### Custom Environments

You can create multiple custom environments, as per need. Each Custom Environment can have a unique name as well as you can define the Environment's tier type as well.

#### Coming Soon

* You can also make these environments sharable so that you can share the infrastructure between multiple environments and still have logical name spacing.
* You can connect custom domains to these environments.