Single-Tenant Vs. Multi-Tenant: Do You Know The Difference?
Introduction
Tenancy is a term used in cloud computing to describe the sharing of computing resources in a private or public environment that is isolated from other users and kept secret. In Software as a Service (SaaS), tenancy is divided into two types: single-tenant SaaS and multi-tenant SaaS.
A single-tenant cloud is a cloud infrastructure dedicated to a single client, with no neighbors sharing resources. They may reside in a dedicated offsite data center or with a managed private cloud provider. In this architecture, each tenant gets their own database. This way, data from each tenant remains separated from the other. Furthermore, the architecture is built such that only one software instance per SaaS server is allowed.
Multi-tenant cloud architecture is a single cloud infrastructure built to serve multiple businesses. It may cover multiple servers and data centers, incorporated into a single database. Cloud providers offer multi-tenancy as a gateway to share the same application with multiple businesses on the same hardware and operating environment, while also storing data in common pools.
