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Coming soon: Understand the environments in DigiCert ONE

An environment is an isolated workspace within your DigiCert ONE account. Each environment has its own products, configurations, integrations, and certificate workflows.

Every environment belongs to a specific hosting region. You can create as many environments as your organization needs to support separate business divisions, geographic or data residency requirements, and different operational workflows.

Products, licenses, and configurations in one environment are independent of those in another environment. Enabling the same product in production and demo, two production environments one with United States data residency and another for Europe creates separate environment-specific configurations.

DigiCert account
│
├── Environment: United States hosted region
│   │
│   └── Products
│       │
│       ├── Trust sources
│       │   ├── CertCentral
│       │   │   └── Issues publicly trusted certificates
│       │   └── DigiCert Private CA
│       │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
│       │
│       └── Solutions
│           ├── Trust Lifecycle
│           └── Software Trust
│
└── Environment: India hosted region
    │
    └── Products
        │
        ├── Trust sources
        │   ├── CertCentral
        │   │   └── Issues publicly trusted certificates
        │   └── DigiCert Private CA
        │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
        │
        └── Solutions
            ├── Content Trust 
            ├── Device Trust 
            └── DigiCert DNS

Why organizations use multiple environments

Organizations commonly create multiple environments to separate:

  • Business divisions or subsidiaries

  • Geographic regions or data residency requirements

  • Production, staging, development, or testing workflows

  • Product configurations that must remain operationally isolated

  • Different licenses, integrations, and certificate workflows

Users continue to sign in to the same DigiCert​​ account. Their permissions determine which environments they can access.

Tip

An environment is not a separate login or customer account. It is an isolated workspace within your existing DigiCert​​ account.

Environment regions

Each environment is hosted in a specific region. Supported regions include:

  • Australia (AU)

  • India (IN)

  • Japan (JP)

  • Netherlands (NL)

  • Switzerland (CH)

  • United States (US)

    Note

    The Oracle Cloud environment is an alternative production deployment in the United States. It is not a separate geographic region and is available only to organizations provisioned to use it.

Supported region mappings

DigiCert accounts are hosted in either the United States (US) or European Union (EU) region. This regional separation supports General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data-residency requirements.

When linking a DigiCert ONE environment, the region of that environment must be compatible with the region of your DigiCert account:

DigiCert account region

CertCentral regions

DigiCert ONE regions

US

US

United States (US), Australia (AU), India (IN), and Japan (JP)

EU

EU

Netherlands (NL) and Switzerland (CH)

Common environment deployment models

You can structure environments according to your operational requirements. Common deployment models include:

Regional environments

You can separate environments to support different geographic regions or data residency requirements.

Example:

  • US hosted region

  • EU hosted region

Business unit environments

You can separate environments to isolate products and workflows for different parts of the organization.

Example:

  • Corporate IT

  • Manufacturing

  • Retail

  • Engineering

Operational environments

You can create environments for different stages of your deployment lifecycle, such as:

  • Production

  • Staging

  • Development

  • Demo or evaluation

Example:

DigiCert account
│
├── Environment: Production (US hosted region)
│   │
│   └── Products
│       │
│       ├── Trust sources
│       │   ├── CertCentral
│       │   │   └── Issues publicly trusted certificates
│       │   └── DigiCert Private CA
│       │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
│       │
│       └── Solutions
│           ├── Trust Lifecycle
│           ├── Software Trust 
│           ├── Content Trust 
│           ├── Device Trust 
│           └── DigiCert DNS
│
└── Environment: Demo (US hosted region)
    │
    └── Products
        │
        ├── Trust sources
        │   └── DigiCert Private CA
        │       └── Issues privately trusted certificates
        │
        └── Solutions
            ├── Trust Lifecycle 
            ├── Software Trust 
            ├── Content Trust 
            ├── Device Trust 
            └── DigiCert DNS

How many components can an environment have?

Each environment is configured independently. Each environment can include:

  • Multiple CertCentral instances

  • One configuration of all other products

The same CertCentral instance can be connected to more than one production environment. This makes CertCentral different from other products which are environment-bound.

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