Software as a service (SaaS) applications can be built with a variety of different architectural models. The silo model refers to an architecture where tenants are provided dedicated resources.
SaaS applications rely on a frictionless model for introducing new tenants into their environment. This often requires the orchestration of a number of components to successfully provision and configure all the elements needed to create a new tenant. This process, in SaaS architecture, is referred to as tenant on-boarding. On-boarding should be fully automated for every SaaS environment by utilizing infrastructure as code in your on-boarding process.
This pattern guides you through an example of creating a tenant and provisioning a basic infrastructure for the tenant on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The pattern uses C# and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
Because this pattern creates a billing alarm, we recommend deploying the stack in the US East (N. Virginia), or us-east-1, AWS Region. For more information, see the AWS documentation.
