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# Resources on Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud offers a variety of resources to help you build and manage event streaming
applications. This section provides information about the top-level resources,
organizations and environments, that you can use to organize your Kafka clusters
and other Confluent Cloud resources. It also provides information about Confluent Resource
Names (CRNs), which are used to uniquely identify resources in Confluent Cloud.

## Organizations

The top-level resource in Confluent Cloud is the organization. An organization is a logical
grouping of resources that you can use to manage access to your Confluent Cloud resources
and to organize your resources in a way that makes sense for your organization. Most
users will only need one organization, but you can create [multiple organizations](organizations/multiple-organizations.md#multiple-organizations)
if you need to separate resources for different departments or teams.

To learn more about organizations, see [Organizations](organizations/cloud-organization.md#cloud-organization).

## Environments

Within each Confluent Cloud organization, you can have one or more environments, each
of which can contain Kafka clusters and deployed components, such as Connect,
ksqlDB, and Schema Registry. Different departments or teams can use separate
environments to avoid interfering with each other.

To learn more about environments, see [Environments](cloud-environments.md#cloud-environments).

## Confluent Resource Names (CRNs)

Confluent Resource Names (CRNs) provide a uniform way to uniquely identify
resources such as a Kafka cluster, topic, or consumer group, and are used in audit
logs. See this section to understand how CRNs are structured and how to use them.

To learn more about CRNs, see [Confluent Resource Names (CRNs)](confluent-resource-names.md#confluent-resource-names).
