What is It?
single software instance - multiple users sharing resources in cloud different consumers (tenants) are isolated from other
Advantages
- cost effective because less cost of physical hardware
- better use of resources
Disadvantages
- potential security risks
- if one consumer is taking up too much, might slow others down
Multitenant Vs Single Tenant Cloud
Benefits of Multitenant
- can save money cheap to scale
- flexible
- more efficient
Analogy
It’s like an apartment; data is different
Resource Pooling
allows cloud providers to pool large-scale IT resources to serve multiple cloud consumers. Resource pooling is commonly achieved through multitenancy technology, and therefore encompassed by this multitenancy characteristics.