For Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure, the best practices apply specifically to the Production environment (and possibly Staging on Pro architecture, subject to resource constraints) which would have more resources than the integration and development environments.
Affected products and versions
All supported versions of:
If your project requires many sites, stores, or store views, you can use the following strategies to improve performance:
Websites and stores are multipliers for catalog data, so having many websites and stores can negatively affect site performance in the following ways: