How to choose a bring your own cloud (BYOC) platform for your enterprise

A genuine bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) platform runs the workload data plane, including applications, databases, networking, and compute, within a customer’s own cloud account and VPC, while the provider typically operates a separate control plane for orchestration and management. The distinction is presented as important for data residency, direct cloud billing, governance, auditability, and avoiding vendor infrastructure in the application traffic path. The guide recommends assessing BYOC offerings based on data-plane and control-plane placement, VPC integration, deployment requirements, upgrade responsibilities, team isolation, managed services, observability, billing, and exit options, noting that some services marketed as BYOC may retain vendor-controlled infrastructure or add cost markups. It describes Northflank’s offering as a self-service BYOC platform supporting multiple public clouds, on-premises environments, and bare metal, with managed Kubernetes, private networking, CI/CD, databases, GPU workloads, access controls, audit-log exports, and an optional forward-deployed control plane for regulated or air-gapped settings. Northflank states that infrastructure is billed directly by the cloud provider without markup and that customers can retain their Kubernetes clusters and workloads if they stop using the platform.

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