Episode 82: Multitenancy — Sharing the Cloud Securely
Multitenancy allows cloud providers to host multiple customers—known as tenants—on the same physical infrastructure while isolating each one’s data and services. In this episode, we explore how multitenancy works in shared environments, including virtual machines, containers, and network slices. You’ll learn how virtualization and segmentation allow providers to scale while maintaining customer security and privacy.
We also discuss the risks associated with multitenancy, such as noisy neighbors, shared vulnerabilities, and access control misconfigurations. You’ll learn how technologies like VLANs, VXLANs, and hypervisors help enforce isolation between tenants. This episode is important not only for understanding cloud architecture but also for recognizing how multitenancy influences security design, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance in cloud deployments.
