# Working with AWS Elemental Live in a cluster
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Running AWS Elemental Live in a AWS Elemental Conductor Live cluster provides two key benefits that are not available when you run Elemental Live in stand-alone mode:
+ Centralized creation and control of channels on the nodes. 
+ Resiliency through configuration of *redundancy groups* of nodes. 

**Topics**
+ [Components of Elemental Live in a cluster](el-cluster-usage-components.title.md)
+ [Comparison of profiles](comparison-of-profiles-in-cl3-vs-live.md)