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 KEDA can run on both the cloud and the edge, integrates natively with Kubernetes components such as the Horizontal
 Pod Autoscaler, and has no external dependencies.
 
-We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project.
+We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubation project.
 <p align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedacore/keda/main/images/logo-cncf.svg" height="75px"></p>
 
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