# Overview

> What each Continuum product connects to, which licence it needs, and where its credentials sit.

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

Continuum Cloud, Continuum Link and Continuum Local are licensed separately and do different things.

| | Continuum Cloud | Continuum Link | Continuum Local |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Connects to | AWS and Azure | 28 monitoring, ITSM, on-call and uptime platforms | 7 on-premise monitoring systems |
| Puts data on strata | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Draws on a canvas | Yes | No | No |
| Licence | Teams | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Permission | `cloud_connections.manage` | `continuum_integrations.manage` | `continuum_integrations.manage` |
| Where credentials sit | A read-only role in your own account | Encrypted by Blueprintr | On your own agent, never sent to Blueprintr |

Continuum Local is the on-premise half of Continuum Link rather than a product of its own. It shares Link's gate and its connectors.

## Choosing one

Generate a diagram from an AWS account or Azure subscription with [Continuum Cloud](/foliums/continuum-integrations/continuum-cloud).

Put live operational data beside something already drawn with [Continuum Link](/foliums/continuum-integrations/continuum-link).

Reach a monitoring system that cannot be called from the internet, or keep its credentials inside your network, with [Continuum Local](/foliums/continuum-integrations/continuum-local).

## What Continuum does not do

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Continuum Link never writes to a canvas. Only Continuum Cloud draws.

Scheduled polling is unavailable on every plan. Continuum Cloud syncs when you ask it to, and a Continuum Link tab refreshes when an editor presses refresh. Nothing updates on a timer.

Blueprintr evaluates no conditions, holds no thresholds and pages nobody. It reads state from the systems that do.

## Before you publish

Both products write into strata, and a stratum follows the blueprint's own visibility. On a public blueprint, that means anonymous readers.

Continuum Cloud strata carry account ids, resource ids, regions, addresses and a raw payload. Continuum Link panels are reader-visible for every connector except Datadog, LogicMonitor, Auvik and Rootly, which default new connections to blueprint editors.

Review what a diagram carries before publishing it publicly. Changing an audience later applies to subsequent refreshes and cannot recall copies already shared.