A tenant in cloud computing is a single customer, team, or organization that shares a cloud system with other customers while keeping its own data, users, and settings walled off from everyone else. The word comes from renting: many tenants, one building.
DefinitionOne customer in a shared system
A customer, team, or organization with its own data, users, and settings walled off from everyone else.
The nameMany tenants, one building
The word comes from renting.
What a tenant seesOnly its own slice
To the user it feels like a private application.
Why it mattersThe basic unit of multi tenancy
The tenant boundary is how cloud SaaS keeps everyone’s data apart.
Each tenant sees only its own slice of the system. To the user it feels like a private application, even though the same software is quietly serving other tenants in the background.
Its own data
Its own users
Its own settings
This is the basic unit of any multi tenant system. Understanding the tenant boundary is the first step to understanding how cloud SaaS keeps everyone’s data apart.
Figure 1. Many tenants, one building
Drawn from this article’s definition: each tenant keeps its own data, users, and settings walled off while one system serves them all. Three tenants are drawn to illustrate; the article gives no count.
Can one company be multiple tenants?
Yes. Large organizations often run separate tenants for different departments or regions.
Multi tenancyA cloud computing model where a single shared system serves multiple customers, called tenants, while keeping each tenant’s data and settings isolated from the others.
Multi tenant architectureA single application environment shared by many customers, where each tenant sees separate data, settings and permissions while the application and infrastructure underneath are shared.
Resource poolingComputing resources like storage, processing power, and memory are combined into a shared pool and handed out to customers dynamically based on what they need.
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