# Continuum

> Connect a diagram to live infrastructure, so the drawing can be checked against what exists.

Continuum connects a diagram to the systems it describes, so the drawing can be
regenerated and the detail on it comes from the source.

## Cloud and Link

Continuum Cloud and Continuum Link do different things and are licensed
differently.

| | **Continuum Cloud** | **Continuum Link** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Connects to | AWS and Azure | Other platforms: monitoring, ITSM, on-call |
| Puts live data on strata | Yes | Yes |
| **Draws on the canvas** | **Yes** | **No, never** |
| Licence | Teams | Enterprise |

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Continuum Link cannot draw. It brings live data from another platform into a
> stratum. To generate a diagram from your infrastructure, use Continuum Cloud.

## The Cloud pipeline

> [!STEPS]
>
> === Connect an account
>
> A read-only connection to an AWS or Azure account.
>
> === Choose a scope
>
> Which regions, subscriptions and resource types to look at.
>
> === Poll
>
> Continuum reads the estate and records what is there.
>
> === Draw and attach
>
> Resources become shapes on a Vellum canvas, and their details become strata.

> [!TILES 3]
>
> === [Cloud connections](/foliums/blueprintr-user-guide/continuum/cloud-connections)
>
> Connecting AWS and Azure, read-only.
>
> === [Scopes and polling](/foliums/blueprintr-user-guide/continuum/scopes-and-polling)
>
> Choosing what to look at, and how often.
>
> === [Continuum Link](/foliums/blueprintr-user-guide/continuum/continuum-link)
>
> Live data from other platforms, on a stratum.