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Multi-tenant isolation

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Product guide: what the capability brings, for whom, its limits and the version that delivered it - no configuration syntax.

Developer side: Getting credentials; operations side: Wiring your identity provider, Setting quotas.

The tenant is an API's end customer: a company, a team, an account. Flexway reads it from a verified source and enforces it everywhere, not only in routing.

Where What is guaranteed
Identity The tenant comes from a signed claim, an API key, a certificate or a trusted mesh; the value the client writes never reaches the upstream
Quotas and budgets Counted per tenant: a tenant never spends another's quota
Cache An authenticated response is cached per tenant and per person; isolation test on every PR
Asynchronous plane A subscriber reads its tenant only; a channel can be bound to one person
Native Kafka A virtual cluster per tenant; no other tenant's name, neither in an answer nor toward the broker; proven by mutation on every PR
Encryption An encrypted field is bound to its tenant, topic and path: copied elsewhere, it does not decrypt
Console An account bound to a tenant sees that tenant only; elsewhere, 403

Limit: the isolation is logical, inside a shared gateway; physical isolation means deploying one gateway per customer.

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