What is Salesforce Hyperforce?
Summary
Salesforce Hyperforce is a major architectural shift that enables Salesforce to run its platform on public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, improving scalability, performance, and geographical data residency. It addresses limitations of the traditional multi-tenant “tower block” model by leveraging the economies of scale of large cloud platforms. This means faster innovation, easier compliance with local data laws, and transparent migration processes for customers, with no added cost or impact to integrations. Salesforce teams can expect improved infrastructure flexibility and potentially enhanced platform capabilities in the future.
Takeaways
- Hyperforce enables Salesforce to run on major public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Organizations can select the geographic location for their data residency under Hyperforce.
- Migration to Hyperforce involves minimal changes and downtime (about 3 hours).
- Hyperforce architecture improves scalability beyond traditional multi-tenant pods.
- No extra cost for Hyperforce—covered under existing Salesforce licenses.
In December 2020 Salesforce announced Salesforce Hyperforce . But what exactly is Hyperforce? According to Salesforce Hyperforce is a quantum leap forward in how Salesforce can accelerate our global customers’ digital transformations and empower them to grow, fast and at scale, on our trusted platform. Bret Taylor, President and COO of Salesforce The best way to explain it is to explain how Salesforce is architected at the moment. Now you may have seen how Salesforce describes multi-tenancy which is the cornerstone of their current architecture. Salesforce Multi-tenancy They describe this in terms of their platform being a tower block, and a customer being a room in that tower block. The customer can utilise all the capabilities available to them in the room, so the power, water supply and building maintenance etc. All these resources are shared across the tower block.