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= Architecture models
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{product-rosa} (ROSA) has the following cluster topologies:

* Hosted control plane (HCP) - The control plane is hosted in a Red{nbsp}Hat account and the worker nodes are deployed in the customer's AWS account.
* Classic - The control plane and the worker nodes are deployed in the customer's AWS account.

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.Additional resources

* xref:../rosa_architecture/rosa_policy_service_definition/rosa-hcp-service-definition.adoc#rosa-sdpolicy-regions-az_rosa-hcp-service-definition[Regions and availability zones]

* xref:../rosa_architecture/rosa_policy_service_definition/rosa-policy-process-security.adoc#rosa-policy-security-regulation-compliance_rosa-policy-process-security[Security and regulation compliance]

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.Additional resources

* xref:../rosa_cluster_admin/rosa_nodes/rosa-nodes-machinepools-configuring.html[Configuring machine pools in Local Zones]