Factory Managed vs Private: choosing the boundary

Factory Managed and Factory Private differ chiefly in who owns the control plane and where development session data, orchestration, and operational responsibilities reside, rather than simply whether agents run on customer hardware. Managed uses Factory-hosted, tenant-isolated control-plane services while customers retain responsibility for local machines, CI/CD, and related access controls, whereas Private places the control plane in customer infrastructure and requires customers to manage updates, monitoring, recovery, certificates, and capacity. Organizations should separately evaluate inference routes, session data, telemetry, tool connections, retention, and diagnostic paths through an approved data-flow diagram, since an approved model provider does not necessarily approve hosted coordination services. The choice should reflect an organization’s data-boundary requirements and operational capacity, with mixed deployment patterns possible if workload placement rules are clear. Air-gapped deployments, GovCloud offerings, and customer-hosted environments address distinct needs and require separate validation, particularly for connectivity, feature availability, and authorization status. Evaluations should test equivalent tasks, permissions, models, policy enforcement, negative cases, review effort, and operator workload, then document permitted workloads, approved services, data classes, responsibilities, exceptions, and criteria for expansion in a versioned acceptance record.

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