Apps

Apps are resources in your EchoStream Tenant that contain Nodes that live at the edge of your Tenant.

Apps serve three purposes in EchoStream:

1. Grouping of Nodes that pertain to that App, allowing you to categorize those Nodes. For example, if you had three Nodes processing information at Vendor A, then you would place those Nodes in a Vendor A App.
2. Defining a config that the App will provide to all the Nodes that it contains.
3. Granting permissions to the Nodes the App contains so they can access their EchoStream Cloud resources.

EchoStream provides four different App types:

• Cross Account Apps allow you to extend your EchoStream Tenant into an AWS Account. They contain External Nodes.
• Cross Tenant Apps allow you to transfer messages between your Tenant and other Tenant's in EchoStream. The contain Cross Tenant Sending or Receiving Nodes.
• External Apps allow you to extend your EchoStream Tenant into any compute location in the world, such as a Microsoft Azure Account, a Google Cloud Computing Services Account, you own datacenter, etc. They contain External Nodes.
• Managed Apps allow you to extend your EchoStream Tenant into any compute location that supports VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization. They are fully managed by EchoStream and contain Managed Nodes.