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# Avoiding Redundant Deployments

> Skip queued deployments in env zero to run only the latest version, reducing wait time for frequently changing environments with continuous deployment enabled.

A skip redundant deployments policy is especially useful for dynamic environments with frequent changes, in case you only care about the latest changes and want fast continuous deployment.

If enabled under "Project Settings" -> "Policies" tab -> “Skip redundant deployments”, when multiple deploy executions are queued, we will skip up to the next destroy execution. If there is no destroy execution queued, we will skip to the last queued deployment. We will not, however, skip destroy deployments nor PR plans since their sequence matters.

In the example below, we can see that we saved about 80 minutes by skipping 4 queued deployments that would have taken about 20 minutes each.

Instead of waiting almost 2 hours, we deployed the latest version in 20 minutes.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/envzero-b61043c8/t0QBBK-2O7wlTUvX/images/guides/policies-governance/f2cef98-screen_shot_2021-10-24_at_17.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=t0QBBK-2O7wlTUvX&q=85&s=0b888fb3464b9670065e6b56e31023c7" alt="Deployment history showing four skipped deployments saving approximately 80 minutes of queue time" width="1111" height="781" data-path="images/guides/policies-governance/f2cef98-screen_shot_2021-10-24_at_17.png" />

## Next steps

* [Skipping the Apply Step](/guides/policies-governance/skip-apply-step) - Skip apply when a plan detects no resource changes.
* [Using Continuous Deployment](/guides/admin-guide/environments/continuous-deployment) - Configure the CD triggers that produce the queued deployments.
* [Deployment Scheduling](/guides/admin-guide/environments/scheduling) - Schedule deploys and destroys instead of relying on queue order.
