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What Is a Coop? A Plain-Language Definition

A short, friendly explainer for people who have never heard the word used about software.

April 7, 20263 min readBy Dolores Peckham
In shortA coop is a workspace / Coops live in regions / You can have many / The name is not a joke.

1. A coop is a workspace

It holds your services, your secrets, and your team. Everything lives in exactly one coop.

2. Coops live in regions

A coop is created in a place, like us-east-1. That is where its data stays.

3. You can have many

Production, staging, a coop for experiments. Use separate coops to keep them apart.

4. The name is not a joke

Well, it is. But it is also a useful word. Try saying "my coop is healthy" with a straight face.

Written by Dolores Peckham, Head of Data and AI. Disagree? Tell us. We read every message, usually before the second coffee.