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The resources are provided by a cloud service provider.
Each tenant is isolated from other tenants, and they cannot access each others data or resources.
Multiple tenants can share the same infrastructure while maintaining their own privacy and security.
Tenants can be individuals, organizations, or departments within an organization.
If multiple different tenants share the same resources, this represents multi-tenant architecture.
However, the difference between single tenant and multi-tenant architecture is slightly more tricky.
The difference lies in the details.
Now, lets explore the summary of both architectures before going into details.
This means that the cloud resources are dedicated to that customer.
This single tenant can customize the resources to meet specific needs.
This means greater flexibility and control over the resources.
It is generally more expensive than multi-tenant architecture since the customer alone is paying for dedicated resources.
Shared resources are lowering the opportunities for all of those.
you’re able to create dedicated infrastructure for a single customer or organization.
This allows the customer to have complete control over the underlying hardware.
But AWS can provide a range of services that you could use to create shared infrastructure.
Then you share the same underlying hardware and infrastructure while maintaining their own privacy and security.
Customers can store and retrieve data in a shared environment.
You might create separate database instances for each tenant.
you might also create a dedicated database cluster and instance for the single tenant.
Finally, it’s possible for you to use RDS to create a shared database service for multiple tenants.
Then such database instance supports multiple tenants, and it ultimately limits its level of customization or performance.
This means its not the platform that determines whether you will have single or multi-tenant architecture.
Its much more about how you configure and set up the platform.
Single tenant architecture generally prefers those organizations that require high levels of security, compliance, and customization.
Multi-tenant architecture prefers organizations that prioritize cost savings and scalability.
Next, check out multitenancy in cloud computing explained.
