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title: Important Concepts
description: Check information about Integrations infrastructure
documentId: ipaas-infra-concepts
locale: en-US
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## Control plane

Set of modules related to *design time*. 
The following functionalities are provided by these modules:

* Environment configuration
* Messaging
* Database
* Policies
* Log viewing

The control plane is **shared**.

## Data plane

Set of modules related to *runtime* and dedicated for each customer.
All calls are routed through modules contained in the data plane, which is provisioned in a dedicated VPC with its own IP addressing.