Tenant isolation, data sovereignty and multi-region architectures are expansive topics, and discussing them often raises diffuse and overlapping terms that can have subtle semantic differences depending on the context.
For purposes of clarity and to reduce cognitive load, Hardpoint standardises several foundational terms which occur frequently across our documentation.
Term
Description
Tenant
The fundamental unit of isolation in Hardpoint Enterprise. A tenant is assigned to exactly one region and pool
Region
A collection of one or more fleets of data stores. Regions may be differentiated by a number of properties such as geography or cloud provider.
Fleet
The collection of data stores (relational/NoSQL databases, S3 buckets, e.t.c) supporting one or more tenants. A fleet belongs to a region.
