Sandbox and Testing environments

This is a list of non core or member environments. These environments are used for core platform development and testing work.

Please note this does not include member development accounts which are given sandbox access to enable rapid development.

Environments

Name	AWS Account Name	Terraform Location	Usage	How to run Terraform
Core Sandbox	shared-services-dev	core-sandbox	Development or prototyping work that requires a completely disconnected account.	This account does not have secure baselines or a Github actions workflow. Terraform must be run locally.
Core VPC Sandbox	core-vpc-sandbox	core-vpc	Development work for the core-vpc. This account is associated with the core-vpc-sandbox workspace and is identical to the other core-vpc accounts, except that only sprinkler-development and cooker-development use the networking provided.	Github action in modernisation platform repository
Testing Test	testing-test	testing	Exact copy of a member account in terms of networking and baselines, but empty. Used for running Terratests in.	Github action for the networking configuration, but only Terraform run as part of tests should be used here.
Sprinkler Development	sprinkler-development	sprinkler	Like a member account but uses core-vpc-sandbox networking. Used to create and test infrastructure.	Github action in the environments repository.
Cooker Development	cooker-development	cooker	Like a member account but uses core-vpc-sandbox networking. Used to create and test infrastructure.	Github action in the environments repository.
Example	example-development	example	Example code to show users how to create simple infrastructure. Infrastructure should only be created here to test that the example code is valid, then destroyed.	Github action in the environments repository

This page was last reviewed on 27 January 2026. It needs to be reviewed again on 27 July 2026 by the page owner #modernisation-platform .