# Temporal's production deployment features

> Transform your Temporal apps into production-ready systems by deploying Workflows, Activities, and Workers with either our managed Temporal Cloud or self-hosted service solutions.

Transform your Temporal applications into production-ready systems by deploying your application code, Workflows, Activities, and Workers for operational use.
When your application is ready to start serving production traffic, we offer two Temporal Service options:

- **[Choose Temporal Cloud for your Temporal Service](/cloud)**
  Let us handle the Temporal Service operations so you can focus on your applications.
- **[Self-host a Temporal Service](/self-hosted-guide)**
  Deploy your own production level Temporal Service to orchestrate your durable applications.

| Feature                            | Temporal Cloud                                                            | Self-hosted                                      |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| **Multi-tenant**                   | ✅ Up to 100 Namespaces                                                   | ✅ Unlimited Namespaces                          |
| **High availability and failover** | ✅ [Namespaces with High Availability features](/cloud/high-availability) | ✅ Global Namespaces & Multi-Cluster Replication |
| **Application state persistence**  | ✅ 30-90 day Retention                                                    | ✅ Unlimited                                     |
| **Long term state retention**      | ✅ Workflow History Export                                                | ✅ Archival                                      |
| **Community support**              | ✅ Slack, Forum                                                           | ✅ Slack, Forum                                  |
| **Paid support**                   | ✅ Prioritized responses                                                  | ✖️                                                |