Environments

Shared Services Environment	CFT Environment	Use case	Path to live	Additional Information
Prod	Prod	Live services	Yes
Staging	AAT	Automated Acceptance Testing before moving to Prod	Yes
Demo	Demo	External demonstrations	No	Used for demonstrating to external stakeholders No VPN required
ITHC	ITHC	IT Health Check, used for penetration testing	No
Test	Perftest	Performance testing	No
Dev	Preview	Pre-merge automated testing and Pull Request checks	Yes	Destroyed nightly Pull requests are deployed ​ Automatically tested with functional tests​ Application points to AAT instance for dependant services
Sandbox	Sandbox	Testing infrastructure changes, proof of concept, experimentation	No

See also

• Sandbox Cleardown
• Environment schedule
• External IP addresses (Egress)

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