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Architecture

Architecture​

The SEW Platform is built on a cloud-native, distributed architecture designed to deliver secure connectivity, high availability and scalable industrial automation operations. This section introduces the fundamental architectural concepts that power SEW—how services run in the cloud, how the SEW Gateway connects on-premise industrial assets and how workloads such as pipelines, IDEaaS and device operations are orchestrated securely across IT and OT environments.

This section includes the following pages:

  • Architecture Overview – A visual and conceptual description of SEW’s end-to-end architecture, including cloud services, SEW Gateways, connectivity patterns and the data/control flows between them.
  • High Availability & Scalability – Details on how SEW uses cloud elasticity, microservices, redundancy and automated failover to support enterprise-grade performance at any scale.
  • SEW Connectivity Services – An in-depth explanation of SEW’s secure connectivity layer, including tunneling technologies, VPN orchestration, connection lifecycle management and security boundaries between IT and OT domains.

Together, these pages provide a comprehensive understanding of how SEW is structured—both in the cloud and on-premise—to ensure secure, reliable and scalable OrchestrationSuite.