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+            <Admonition type="note" title="Restate Cloud">
+                When using [Restate Cloud](https://restate.dev/cloud), your service must be accessible over the public internet so Restate can invoke it. 
+                If you want to develop with a local service, you can expose it using our [tunnel](/deploy/server/cloud/#registering-restate-services-with-your-environment) feature.
+            </Admonition>
         </Step>
         <Step stepLabel="5" title="Send a request to the Greeter service">
             Invoke the service via the Restate UI playground: go to `http://localhost:9070`,  click on your service and then on playground.