3.2 Cloud Service Provider Considerations
A typical architecture in a Cloud Service Provider environment consists of one or more resource groups dedicated to the tenant workloads supported by the components deployed on the management cluster.
The logical separation between management and workload resources is reflected by the separation of the supporting physical infrastructures for these two areas. The main drivers for this separation are as follows:
• Separation of duties between the management resources (CSP ownership) and the single or multitenant resource groups (tenants or CSP ownership depending on the model implemented).
• Different approaches for data protection, availability, and recoverability between the management resources and the tenant workloads, which might also differentiate the service level of these environments.
• Full independence of the tenant resource clusters from the management layer allowing the freedom to scale the workload resources vertically or horizontally as building blocks according to business needs and without additional constraints.