The Smart Instrumentation Web API is a multi-tenant service.
Multi-tenancy is a software architecture in which a single instance of software serves multiple tenants.
A tenant is a group of users that share access with specific privileges to common data.
The benefits of this architecture are:
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Low maintenance and operational costs which may be especially critical in the cloud environment.
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The partition domains are fully discoverable.
A conceptual diagram of this architecture is presented below: