Why BYOC

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is transforming how modern SaaS applications are delivered, particularly in enterprise and regulated markets. This deployment model combines the ease of use of hosted applications with the security and control of on-premises solutions.

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What is BYOC?

BYOC is a deployment model where software is deployed directly into customer cloud accounts instead of being hosted in the vendor’s environment. Unlike traditional SaaS where all customers share a vendor-managed environment, BYOC allows each customer to run the application in their own cloud infrastructure—whether AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

This approach bridges the gap between traditional SaaS and on-premises deployments:

• Traditional SaaS: Vendor hosts and manages everything
• On-premises: Customer manages everything in their datacenter
• BYOC: Application runs in customer’s cloud, with seamless vendor management

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Why Choose BYOC?

BYOC has emerged as the strategic choice for vendors selling to enterprises with strict security and compliance requirements. By deploying applications directly in customer cloud environments, you can unlock markets that would otherwise be inaccessible with traditional SaaS deployments.

What makes BYOC particularly powerful for vendors is the ability to maintain centralized control. You can manage all customer deployments from a single pane of glass, monitor application health across environments, and respond quickly to issues—all while keeping each customer’s data and infrastructure completely isolated.

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The Infrastructure Challenge

Traditional on-premises deployments require significant infrastructure work—managing Terraform, Kubernetes, configurations, and Docker images. This overhead often forces teams to focus on infrastructure instead of product development. BYOC solves this by keeping infrastructure within customer environments, while platforms like Ryvn automate the deployment process.

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The DevOps Bottleneck

One of the biggest challenges in traditional deployment models is dependency on customer DevOps teams. Updates can take 4-6 weeks as they move through customer priority queues. BYOC eliminates this bottleneck by enabling direct deployments into customer environments—a process Ryvn automates while maintaining security and control.

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Security and Compliance

BYOC fundamentally transforms the security and compliance landscape for enterprise applications. By running each customer’s application in their own cloud account, you create true isolation between environments. This isolation, combined with the ability to leverage existing security policies and tools, makes it significantly easier to meet stringent compliance requirements.

Key security benefits include:

• Isolated Environments: Each customer’s application runs in a separate account, limiting the blast radius of any potential security incidents
• Data Sovereignty: Keep sensitive data within customer-controlled boundaries and specific geographic regions
• Existing Security Controls: Leverage the robust security tools and policies already established in customer environments

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Cost and Complexity

BYOC dramatically reduces the operational complexity and costs associated with traditional multi-tenant environments. Running applications in customer cloud accounts eliminates the need to maintain large-scale shared infrastructure, while also reducing data transfer costs by keeping applications closer to customer data.

Customers benefit from using their existing cloud agreements and volume discounts, while vendors can focus on their core product instead of managing shared infrastructure. Each customer environment can scale independently based on their specific needs, providing better resource utilization and cost efficiency.

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Accelerating Enterprise POCs

Enterprise sales cycles often get stuck in lengthy security reviews and infrastructure setup. BYOC changes this dynamic completely. By deploying directly into customer environments, you can bypass traditional security review cycles. This means starting POCs in days instead of months, with the ability to demonstrate value faster using real customer data.

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Deep Enterprise Integration

BYOC enables unprecedented levels of integration by running within customer infrastructure. This eliminates the traditional barriers between your application and customer systems, enabling direct access to internal services without complex networking. The result is lower latency for data-intensive operations, native integration with existing monitoring and security tools, and faster implementation of customer-specific requirements.