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# What are Shared Sources?

## What are Shared Sources?

When you create a Pipeline and add a Source to it, that Source is exclusive to that Pipeline, and the Pipeline itself is self-contained. There are many situations in which you may want to use that same Source for multiple Pipelines, but you need to define and configure it within each Pipeline independently. This complicates the management of that same Source for multiple Pipelines, and also contributes to increased expense for ingress and egress data volume.