Overview
Our application is a microservice that stores metadata for actual data and is backed by Amazon Postgres RDS. It is deployed in a multi-tenant/multi-region/multi-cell environment. The Gateway handles the multi-region aspect of the system. That is to say, the gateway decides which region/cell to route each tenant. However, there can be multiple tenants in a particular cell and each microservice owns this complexity.
We had to change the data model for our microservice from a single tenant per DB to multiple tenants per DB as a result of a change in the project roadmap. We did this for better