When you activate the Cloud Identity Engine, it automatically creates a tenant. A tenant acts as a secure container for your directory information. While a default tenant is created automatically when you first activate the service, many organizations find it necessary to create additional tenants. This is often done to keep data separate for different geographic regions or to isolate information between distinct business units, ensuring that sensitive user data remains within specific boundaries to meet data residency laws and internal compliance requirements.

Managing your tenants includes:

• Creating Tenants: You can add new tenants to support operations in different geographic regions or to isolate data between distinct departments.
• Viewing Tenants: The management interface provides a consolidated list where you can see all your active tenants and their specific configuration details at a glance.
• Renaming Tenants: You can update the display name of a tenant to ensure it accurately reflects its current purpose or location as your organization evolves.
• Synchronizing Tenants: You can manually trigger an immediate update to ensure that the user information in your tenant matches the latest changes in your source directory.
• Deleting Tenants: If a specific tenant is no longer needed and is not being used by other applications, you can permanently remove it from the system.
• Deleting Domains or Directories: You can remove specific domain connections or entire directories from a tenant without deleting the tenant itself.