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title: "Sitecore deployment environments"
slug: "sitecore-deployment-environments"
abstract: "Overview of the deployment environments used in Commerce."
---
# Sitecore deployment environments

Commerce environments provide the ability to have separately configurable pools of data and service functionality that run together in a single-service instance. An environment has another application at the overall solution level.

There are three Sitecore deployment environments in a production deployment, including where the Commerce Engine roles are deployed:

## Sitecore Content Management

Internal environment for authoring content before publishing for public consumption. Content authors and marketers create and edit content. They build and publish the web experiences from here.

## Sitecore Content Delivery

External environment for delivering content to the public; for example, the Storefront is hosted here. It serves requested pages and media assets to site visitors and collects analytics data in session, for delivering dynamic personalized experiences to shoppers.

## Commerce

The Commerce Engine and Commerce databases. This environment provides the commerce services, for example, orders, carts, pricing, and promotions.