Development vs Production sandboxes

[Michael_Soprano]

In documentation its said that development sandboxes are: slower, have its own limits 

Both types of sandboxes might be reset

What are the advantages of Development sandboxes in that case from your experience?

[MohitVashist · Accepted solution]

Hi @Michael_Soprano 

Development sandboxes are basically "safe playgrounds" where you can:

• Test stuff without breaking anything important
• Learn AEP features without worrying about mistakes
• Try different approaches before committing to production
• Let multiple people experiment simultaneously
• Validate integrations end-to-end
• Test schemas, data flows, and configurations without impacting production
• Production data remains untouched during testing
• Compliance and privacy safeguards maintained

Bottom line: Yeah they're slower and get reset, but that's the price for having a risk-free environment to figure things out before you deploy to production. Better to move slow in dev than break things in prod.

[Michael_Soprano]

But on the other hand I can have:

- production production

- production development (which I can also delete and I am interested why not use this one )

[MohitVashist]

Yes you can use that one as well. Also find the below documents for the sandbox licence and setup.

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-platform/sandbox/home