D3 · Architecture

What is multi-tenancy security in cloud?

Multi-tenancy shares physical infrastructure among multiple customers in cloud environments. Security concern: tenant isolation — preventing one tenant's data/workload from accessing another's.
CSPs use hypervisors, namespaces, and network isolation for tenant separation. Side-channel attacks (Spectre/Meltdown) demonstrated theoretical cross-tenant data leakage. Government workloads often use dedicated/isolated cloud deployments.
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