The Bring Your Own Cloud Movement: Nuon's Solution for Enterprise AI Deployment
Blog post from WorkOS
At the Enterprise Ready Conference 2025, Jon Morehouse, co-founder and CEO of Nuon, addressed a significant challenge for modern SaaS companies: deploying applications into customer-controlled cloud environments while maintaining operational control. With the rise of AI, enterprises are increasingly demanding that applications run within their own cloud environments due to concerns over data privacy, compliance, and geographic data residency. The Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model offers a solution, allowing customers to maintain control over their data and ensure business continuity even during third-party outages. However, implementing BYOC is technically challenging, as it requires packaging applications for installation in customer environments, managing updates, and troubleshooting without direct access. Nuon's platform addresses these challenges by providing a control plane that detects unauthorized changes in customer configurations, allowing vendors to remediate issues without needing direct access, and offering approval workflows for deployment changes. This approach facilitates a SaaS-like experience in customer-hosted environments, essential for companies catering to regulated industries or those requiring compliance with geographic data regulations. As BYOC becomes a necessity rather than a differentiator, platforms like Nuon aim to simplify the deployment process without increasing operational complexity for SaaS companies.