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Does Render have BYOC?

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Date Published
Author
Deborah Emeni
Word Count
1,492
Company Posts That Month
37
Language
English
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No
Summary

Render is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that does not support Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), meaning it runs all customer workloads on its own infrastructure across various plan tiers, including Hobby, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise. This limits teams that require data residency, compliance, or dedicated cloud resources like reserved GPU capacity, which necessitate platforms with documented BYOC support such as Northflank. Northflank offers a full-stack deployment platform with BYOC as a first-class product, allowing users to deploy workloads into their own cloud accounts on platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave, and Civo, while maintaining control over their data and infrastructure. Unlike Render, Northflank provides Kubernetes cluster provisioning within a user's VPC and supports bare-metal and on-premises deployments through BYOK (Bring Your Own Kubernetes), ensuring that all workloads and data remain inside the user's cloud boundary. Render does offer Private Link and Private Network features for connectivity to AWS resources, but these do not enable BYOC functionality, as workloads still operate on Render's infrastructure.

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