# The Noisy Neighbor Problem in Multitenant Architectures

DevFeed: [The Noisy Neighbor Problem in Multitenant Architectures](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-noisy-neighbor-problem-in-multitenant-architectures-5697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/noisy-neighbor-multitenant>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-04-03T23:21:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Multi-tenancy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multi-tenancy.md>), [Cloud Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-architecture.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

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## AI overview

This article explains the noisy neighbor problem in multitenant architectures. It describes how tenants sharing a large AWS RDS instance can compete for finite CPU, memory, and I/O resources, allowing intensive workloads from some customers to degrade performance or cause failures for others.

## Source excerpt

Reddit's answer for solving noisy neighbors is simple: Have a talk with them, if you can stay calm, be as straight forward as possible. Don't bend on your position. At least find out what the other neighbors think. Good advice, but it can be difficult to talk to CPUs; they tend n...