BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is not a single deployment model but a spectrum, ranging from vendor-hosted SaaS to fully air-gapped, customer-controlled environments. This article breaks down the four main variants—BYOC-Account, BYOC-VPC, BYOC-K8s, and air-gapped—and explains why customers need different flavors based on data residency, security, cost optimization, data gravity, platform standardization, and regulatory constraints. It also highlights the security, portability, and operational challenges of delivering managed services across diverse customer environments, emphasizing the need for least-privilege permissions, zero-inbound access, and supply-chain integration.
BYOC does not always mean "give the vendor a fresh cloud account and let them deploy."
- ssousa666
Nice write up. I have been working on an airgapped k8s-based, robotics simulation platform for awhile and this is one of the most accurate and coherent writings I've found on the subject.
I'll definitely be sharing this with my team.
- s0ss
To me, BYOC will always mean "bring your own computer", which is amusing in this context.
- ClosedPistachio
Actual title is "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"