# What is a UAT and PROD (production) environment

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**Created:** [December 7, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/what-is-a-uat-and-prod-production-environment/322 "2022-12-07T08:48:52Z")\
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The answer is quite simple.  
**UAT** stands for User ‘Acceptance and Testing’ a UAT environment can thus be used for testing your integrations and making changes before using them in production.  
It should also only be connected to ‘sandboxes’ and not live systems.

This brings us to the **PROD** or otherwise referred to as Production environment.  
A production environment will be your live environment, connected to live systems.

Other terms used for a UAT environment are Demo, Sandbox, Test, Build or Development environment.

If you have a UAT Alumio environment you should be able to **access** it by prefixing “uat-” to your environment.  
For example “company-co” would become “uat-company-co”.