The document compares single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures, highlighting their security, cost, flexibility, and management characteristics. Single-tenant offers advantages such as enhanced security and customization at a higher cost, while multi-tenant is cost-effective and efficient but can lack robust management options. Businesses must evaluate their priorities—cost or performance—when choosing the right solution.

1. Security
Cybercriminals can take advantage of multiple
access points to exploit systems
vulnerabilities.
Backup and restoration
Most multi-tenant platforms do not offer
robust restoration options.
Limited management
They do not provide many customization
options, which reduces the consumer's ability
to interact with the system.
Scalability
There is no difference between onboarding
ten users from a thousand companies or a
thousand users from one company.
Benefits of Multi-Tenant Architecture
Cost-effective
A cloud provider may sell its services to many
customers at a much lower cost than each
customer having a dedicated infrastructure.
Flexibility
It can allocate a pool of resources to the users
who need it, as their demands scale up and
down.
Efficiency
It offers the ability to architect an environment
exactly the way a tenant needs it.
What is a Single Tenant?
Single-tenant is an architecture in which one entity
is supported by a single instance of a software
application and supporting infrastructure.
Security
It offers true data isolation that contributes to
optimal protection and increased security
Benefits of Single-Tenant Architecture
Multi-tenant is a single cloud infrastructure
built to serve multiple businesses.
What is a Multi-Tenant?
Backup
The tenant can manage updates by
downloading and upgrading local applications.
Migration
When a tenant wants to migrate from a
single-tenant (SaaS) system into a self-hosted
or local environment, they can quickly move an
application to their own managed servers.
Flexibility
It offers greater control over implementation
and framework.
Cost
It does not allow cost-sharing for facilities
such as deployment and monitoring.
Maintenance
It needs continuous modifications and
improvements.
Setup
It is not always as convenient to install a
single-tenant framework.
Limitations of a Single-Tenant Architecture
Limitations of a Multi-Tenant Architecture
Single tenancy offers high user engagement
with environmental customizations, more
security, and a better propensity for backup.
But it costs much higher than its multi-tenant
counterparts.
You need to decide what is important to your
business and what you can afford to sacrifice.
What is your primary driver?
Is it cost or performance?
Take the time to define your requirements
and choose the solution that best fits your
needs.
Single Tenancy
vs
Multi-Tenancy
Which Is The Right Solution?
Single-Tenant
vs
Multi-Tenant Cloud
Explore the key differences between
Single-tenant & Multi-tenant Cloud
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