In a typical application life cycle, you have different environments, such as development, testing, and production. Each of these environments has different requirements and risk profiles. For instance, the development environment is where new code is written and tested, and it may be more prone to vulnerabilities and bugs. On the other hand, the production environment hosts the live application and is expected to be stable and secure. This deployment allows for more granular control over permissions and security controls for each environment based on their specific needs. You can have stricter security group rules and NACLs in the production environment to protect your live application while allowing more flexibility in development for testing and debugging purposes.