True BYOC

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) in observability is described as an architecture in which a vendor manages components of its platform inside a customer’s cloud environment while the customer retains control of data residency, rather than either fully self-hosting the system or using a vendor’s SaaS query infrastructure. The post distinguishes “true” BYOC from “bring your own bucket” models, arguing that storing raw data in a customer-owned bucket is insufficient if queries and processing still occur in the vendor’s cloud. It identifies managed operations, non-volume-based economics enabled by customer-hosted compute, and data residency as key benefits, and notes that AI-based observability features should run within the customer environment to avoid exporting telemetry, prompts, and related proprietary context. It also outlines a scoped sub-account approach in which vendor access is isolated and controlled through cloud-provider identity and permission tools without extending directly to the data plane. Organizations evaluating BYOC are encouraged to clarify operational responsibilities, data-plane and query locations, pricing, signal coverage, instrumentation requirements, and where AI models run.

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