What is BYOC?
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a deployment model where software is vendor-managed within the customer's cloud infrastructure, distinguishing it from SaaS (vendor-hosted and managed) and Self-Hosted (customer-hosted and managed).
Data Sovereignty
Data never leaves your cloud account
No Vendor Lock-in
Control your infrastructure completely
Cost Transparency
See all costs on your cloud bill
Security Control
Apply your own security policies
Architecture Patterns
Control Plane / Data Plane Separation
Vendor operates a control plane while your data plane runs in your cloud.
- • Data stays local
- • Managed experience
Agent-Based Architecture
Lightweight agent in your environment communicates outbound to vendor services.
- • Minimal footprint
- • Easy updates
Full Self-Hosted / Air-Gapped
Entire application runs in your environment with no vendor dependency.
- • Complete isolation
- • Air-gap ready
When to Consider BYOC?
Good Fit
- • Strict compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA)
- • Sensitive data (PII, financial)
- • Enterprise customers demand it
Consider Carefully
- • Small team without DevOps
- • Rapidly changing product
- • Consumer-focused product
