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id: temporal-service
title: Temporal Service
description: This page provides a comprehensive technical overview of a Temporal Service, detailing its components and subsystems, including the Temporal Server, Frontend Service, History Service, Matching Service, and Worker Service.
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tags:
  - Concepts
  - Temporal Service
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:::info
Please note an important update in our terminology.

We now refer to the Temporal Cluster as the Temporal Service.
:::

This guide provides a comprehensive technical overview of a Temporal Service.

A Temporal Service is the group of services, known as the [Temporal Server](/temporal-service/temporal-server), combined with [Persistence](/temporal-service/persistence) and [Visibility](/temporal-service/visibility) stores, that together act as a component of the Temporal Platform.

See the Self-hosted Temporal Service [production deployment guide](/self-hosted-guide) for implementation guidance.

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