# How does auto partitioning work?

**URL:** <https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-does-auto-partitioning-work/1593>\
**Category:** Datomic Cloud\
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-does-auto-partitioning-work/1593 "2020-08-21T07:30:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/how-does-auto-partitioning-work/1593/2 "2020-08-27T17:12:02Z")

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Hi @Maxweber,

> Understood, but would auto partitioning also help to support [multi-tenancy](https://forum.datomic.com/t/multi-tenancy-databases/238)

In Datomic Cloud partitioning _is_ automatic and it does help support multi-tenancy. The current partitioning automatically distributes across partitons in a DB. The point here is that you do not need to determine a partitioning strategy when using Cloud and Cloud supports multi-tenancy.

Thanks,  
Jaret

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