Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) changes how modern infrastructure runs. Instead of giving your data to a SaaS vendor, you deploy their software inside your own cloud account. You keep control, privacy, and compliance, while still benefiting from managed automation. For teams running data-sensitive, AI, or financial workloads, BYOC means owning the environment without rebuilding it from scratch.
BYOC is a deployment model where the vendor’s platform runs inside your own cloud infrastructure. The vendor provides updates, orchestration, and support, while your data and compute stay inside your environment. This gives enterprises full control over networking, security policies, and compliance — without losing the benefits of managed software.
Confluent and Northflank popularized this model for organizations that cannot allow sensitive data to leave their VPCs. It eliminates the classic SaaS trade-off between innovation and control. With BYOC, you can meet strict data sovereignty rules while maintaining agility across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Cloud security and compliance requirements are tightening. Many teams already have advanced policies, IAM rules, and monitoring pipelines. BYOC allows vendors to integrate into that framework rather than forcing data into external systems. This alignment reduces operational risk and eliminates redundant infrastructure.
BYOC is also about cost optimization. Running workloads in your own account means using your reserved instances, spot capacity, and network credits. You can apply your own scaling logic and resource allocation strategies while still using the vendor’s orchestration and automation layer.
For regulated industries and AI builders, BYOC often becomes the default choice. It aligns data governance, reduces latency, and supports high-performance architectures without giving up enterprise security controls.
BYOC isn’t about adding complexity — it’s about keeping control where it belongs: with you. Vela gives enterprises a BYOC-first Postgres platform with zero vendor access and full automation.
Traditional Postgres hosting services operate as black boxes. Vela’s BYOC model rethinks that. Your data stays in your VPC, while Vela automates scaling, branching, and snapshots through a Git-like workflow. For AI builders, this means databases that clone in seconds and connect seamlessly to vector stores and pipelines.
BYOC turns Postgres into a true Postgres BaaS — but one that runs in your environment. It’s a secure foundation for model training, observability data, and production workloads.
See how Vela simplifies BYOC and Postgres operations: