About tenants
An Azure Sphere tenant isolates your Azure Sphere devices from devices that belong to other organizations, and provides a way for you to organize your devices. Your Azure Sphere tenant is an aggregation point for metadata, functional organization, and information about images, deployments, users, and roles.
Each tenant is identified with a GUID. In your tenant, you'll define products and device groups. Device groups organize individual devices into functional areas for your organization.
The following animation shows how tenants, products, devices, and device groups relate to one another.
Most organizations need only one Azure Sphere tenant. However, large organizations with multiple divisions based on brands or geography, for example, might want to administer devices on a per-division basis. Such organizations can create separate Azure Sphere tenants that make sense for their organization.
Note
An Azure Sphere tenant is distinct from an Azure tenant. If your organization has an Azure tenant, you will still create an Azure Sphere tenant to manage your Azure Sphere devices.
See the following topics for information about how to identify, create, and manage Azure Sphere tenants.