This section outlines the differences between local and remote channels.
Local channels
Channels may be configured with bindings. If producers and consumers are connected to a channel with no bindings and all are in the same zone, the channel is local. That is, events will be sent in-VM and not over a remote transport.
If a local channel is deployed to a clustered zone (that is, a zone with two or more runtimes), by default events will not be replicated between runtimes. ;
Cluster Replication
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