Runtime Environments
Informatica Cloud Secure Agents provide the execution platform to run the data integration tasks and application integration tasks that you configure within Informatica Cloud. A Secure Agent can run within your network or you can license an Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent and execute tasks within the Informatica Cloud hosting facility. All agents are associated with a runtime environment.
If you run a Secure Agent within your network, you can create and manage runtime environments in Secure Agent groups that contain one or more local Secure Agents. Informatica maintains the Hosted Agent runtime environment and agents.
When you configure a connection, you specify the runtime environment to use for the connection. The runtime environment determines which agent runs the task at run time. If the runtime environment is a Secure Agent group, one of the Secure Agents in the Secure Agent group runs the task. If the runtime environment is the Hosted Agent, the Hosted Agent runs the task.
If you are using the Secure Agent version 30.0 or higher, see the following article for more information:
https://network.informatica.com/docs/DOC-16693.