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Fuuz runs in full cloud, two-tier or three-tier deployments. Every Fuuz-hosted environment runs on AWS, in public cloud, private cloud or GovCloud, depending on what your business needs. Or host the Fuuz platform yourself, on any cloud or your own infrastructure. Every option runs the same platform and applications, from one site to an entire enterprise.
Deployment options
Every option runs the same platform and applications, and every deployment includes build, QA and production environments. Choose how your sites connect, then choose Fuuz-hosted on AWS or self-hosted for each tier.
Option 1
Fuuz-hosted on AWS, or self-hosted on any cloud or your own infrastructure
Fuuz runs as one enterprise that people, sites and business systems connect to directly.
Option 2
Fuuz-hosted on AWS, or self-hosted, with gateways at your sites
Fuuz Gateways at each site connect equipment and on-premises systems and feed one Fuuz enterprise shared by every site.
Option 3
Fuuz-hosted on AWS, self-hosted on any cloud or your own infrastructure, or a mix
Each plant or warehouse runs its own Fuuz enterprise in the site tier, fed by gateways in the edge tier. Site-tier enterprises roll up to a Fuuz enterprise in the central tier. Every tier runs the same platform.
Reference deployment architecture
A closer look at the three and two-tier options: what runs in each layer, and how the layers connect. Site and gateway names are examples.
Three-tier
An enterprise layer in a private cloud, a site layer with an application gateway installed per site, and edge gateways line-side. Each site keeps local control of its critical operational applications, and the sites connect up to the enterprise layer over HTTPS through a site-to-site VPN.
Two-tier
The enterprise layer runs the enterprise apps and every site's applications, and edge gateways connect each site's equipment to it over HTTPS through a site-to-site VPN. Fewer layers to operate on the same platform.
Fuuz-hosted on AWS
Fuuz-hosted in AWS public cloud and run by Fuuz, with nothing for your team to host.
Fuuz-hosted in an AWS private cloud environment, run by Fuuz, when your needs call for a private deployment.
Fuuz-hosted in AWS GovCloud for customers with U.S. government and other regulated requirements. Compliance follows a shared responsibility model.
Prefer to run it yourself? You can host the Fuuz platform on any cloud or on your own infrastructure instead. It is the same platform either way.
Hosting
Every tier of every option can be Fuuz-hosted on AWS or hosted by you, on any cloud or on your own infrastructure. Here is what changes.
Self-hosted: any cloud or your own infrastructure
Fuuz-hosted (AWS public, private or GovCloud)
Included in every deployment
Every deployment includes build, QA and production environments, so every change follows the same governed path. Additional build or QA environments are optional.
Fuuz Gateways support automatic updates, so edge connectivity stays current without site visits.
Add gateways to a Fuuz enterprise, or add sites to the site tier of a three-tier deployment, as the business grows.
Layers
The Fuuz Gateway connects equipment with outbound connections only and buffers through network drops.
Event-native services, the data store, modeling, ORM and the GraphQL API.
Accelerators and the applications you build, all reading from one model.
Users and AI agents on any modern browser, governed by one access model.
How do these layers line up with the new industrial AI stack? See where Fuuz fits.
Isolation by design
Fuuz does not put every customer's data in one shared database. Your enterprise has its own database and its own services for your applications and data, and a shared service layer provides the platform features everyone uses. We call this the Enterprise Mesh architecture: the scale of the cloud, with your data kept separate from everyone else's.
Inside your enterprise, data is organized in four levels. The application is the isolation boundary: each one has its own data, so a plant, a facility or a function stays separate from the next. The custom fields, tables, screens and workflows you build belong to your enterprise and do not change anything for other customers.
Four levels
Structure it your way
The same four levels fit very different companies. Here are three common ways customers organize them.
One enterprise, with an organization for each region and each plant as its own application. Regional managers oversee several facilities while each plant's data stays isolated.
A separate enterprise for each business unit, so divisions run independently with their own IT management, with organizations and applications arranged inside each one.
One enterprise and one campus, with separate applications for the production floor, quality lab, warehouse, maintenance and an employee portal, so access can be set function by function.
Share on purpose
Applications are fully isolated until you decide otherwise. When you want a wider view, you build it deliberately, with data flows and shared applications.
A dedicated application holds common data, such as products or customers, for other applications to use.
An application gathers data from the plants in an organization for regional reporting.
An enterprise-wide application consolidates every organization for executive dashboards and corporate analytics.
Keep every application separate with no sharing, which maximizes separation and keeps access control simple.
Designing how data is shared takes thought about the people and developers who will use it. Your implementation partner or the Fuuz team can help, and the Governance and security page covers the controls that apply across every level.
Built to scale
Each enterprise has its own database, and each application has its own data model, so your data is never mixed with other customers'.
Fuuz-hosted build environments receive the latest updates nightly, and production is updated monthly, without upgrade projects.
Applications run in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
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Tell us what you run today and what you need next. We will map how Fuuz fits, without ripping anything out.
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