# Evaluate Temporal

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> Temporal enhances distributed application development with clear code structure, fault-tolerance, and execution guarantees, trusted by thousands for mission-critical workloads.

Temporal gives developers a clear way to structure distributed application code and see the state of a running application.
Applications get fault tolerance and execution guarantees.
Companies of all sizes run Temporal for both mission-critical and standard workloads.

- [Why Temporal](/evaluate/why-temporal): Durable Execution, simplified code structure, and state visibility, and what each one changes about building reliable applications.
- [Understanding Temporal](/evaluate/understanding-temporal): How the Temporal Service, Workers, Workflows, and Activities fit together to run your application code.
- [Features](/evaluate/features): Development and production capabilities available through a Temporal SDK, from core primitives to observability and data encryption.
- [Temporal Cloud](/evaluate/cloud): A fully managed durable execution platform on AWS and GCP, with consumption-based pricing and migration from self-hosted deployments.
- [Product release stages](/evaluate/product-release-stages): Pre-release, Public Preview, and General Availability compared by feature access, API stability, support, pricing, and regional coverage.
- [Security](/security): Security practices for Temporal Cloud and for self-hosted deployments, plus company compliance certifications.
- [Use cases](/evaluate/use-cases-design-patterns): How organizations run Temporal in production, and the architectural design patterns behind those applications.