Explaining tenancy in cloud computing

Understanding Tenants in Cloud Services

The aim of this page is to explain what tenancy means in cloud computing.

• A tenant can be an individual, a team, or an organization.
• Multitenancy allows the sharing of resources efficiently.
• Each tenant has a separate and isolated environment.
• Multitenancy emerged from the need to utilize resources better.
• It reduces costs and improves scalability.
• Originally, computing systems were dedicated to single users.
• Sharing resources became feasible with technological advances.
• It provides privacy and security for each tenant.
• The metaphor of a tenant comes from real estate.
• Like in real estate, tenants share infrastructure but have individual spaces.