Zilliz Cloud BYOC

Your Cloud.Your Control.

Zilliz-Powered AI.

With Zilliz Cloud BYOC, your data stays in your cloud, ensuring security and compliance. Get the power of a fully managed vector database—without sacrificing control.

Deploy Zilliz Cloud in Your Own Cloud

Zilliz Cloud BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) gives you a fully managed vector database while keeping your data in your environment:

Run Zilliz Cloud in your own VPC (AWS, GCP, Azure)
We manage provisioning, scaling, and maintenance (patches, updates, and monitoring)
99.95% availability SLA for enterprise reliability
Your data stays in your cloud—Zilliz manages the control plane, but never accesses your data

Get the security of self-hosting with the ease of a managed service.

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How does Zilliz Cloud BYOC work?

From the diagram above, you can see that Zilliz Cloud BYOC separates the control plane from the data plane, giving you complete data sovereignty without the operational complexity.

Your data stays entirely in your cloud environment (Customer VPC), while Zilliz manages operational tasks like monitoring, updates, and system maintenance from a separate VPC. These environments connect securely via a PrivateLink, with IAM roles allowing Zilliz to deploy resources without accessing your data.

This architecture ensures your information never leaves your infrastructure while you benefit from enterprise-grade management—data sovereignty with none of the operational burden.

Optimized for Enterprise Vector Search

Data Security and Compliance
Data remains strictly within the customer’s security boundary, ensuring customers maintain complete control over data access permissions and compliance with their data governance and regulatory standards.
Fine-grained Control
With BYOC, admins can easily configure databases and support services for specific workloads like high-volume data processing or real-time querying and integrate with current monitoring and security systems.
Cost Saving
Customers can apply their existing cloud vendor savings plans for cost-effective infrastructure while benefiting from Zilliz Cloud's resource pooling solutions to enhance resource utilization and achieve further cost savings.
Fully Managed
Customers enjoy a full SaaS-like experience, eliminating the need for specialized internal expertise. Deployment, upgrades, and regular cluster maintenance are all handled by Zilliz, ensuring hassle-free operations.

Zilliz Cloud BYOC Example Use Cases

Cost Reduction
A public B2C consumer tech company handles a large volume of vector data and leverages favorable terms from its cloud provider.
Compliance Requirement
A Fortune 500 financial institution employs RAG with vector databases, prioritizing stringent data compliance.
Data Sovereignty
A Fortune 100 manufacturing company utilizes vector databases for document searches, maintaining full control over sensitive data.
Security and Compliance
A leading telecom firm implements semantic search, strictly complying with legal standards to protect customer data.

Zilliz Cloud SaaS and BYOC Comparison

	BYOC	SaaS
Fully Managed	✔️	✔️
SLA guarantees	✔️	✔️
24/7 Support	✔️	✔️
Complexity	Low	Low
Authentication and Authorization	Supported	Supported
Data Management and Security	Data never leaves customer’s compliance boundary	Stored securely in Zilliz operated clusters
Data Governance and Compliance	Flexible: customer dictates the policies	Standard
Available Regions	Any regions available for chosen cloud	Limited
Cost Optimizations	Can apply customer cloud account for improved discount/savings on top of Zilliz Cloud infrastructure cost optimization	Zillz Cloud infrastructure cost optimization

Frequently asked questions

What cloud providers are supported by Zilliz Cloud BYOC?
Currently, we support AWS and GCP, with plans to include Azure soon.
How is pricing structured for Zilliz Cloud BYOC?
Pricing is based on CPU core consumption of the data services and requires a minimum annual commitment. For detailed pricing, please contact us.
Can I use my existing cloud credits or discounts with your BYOC model?
Yes, you can apply your existing cloud credits and discounts for any Zilliz Cloud BYOC infrastructure spend.
What control do I have over my data and infrastructure in the BYOC model?
With root access, customers maintain full control over their data and infrastructure, and Zilliz has no access to the customers’ network by default. The customers can grant specific access levels to Zilliz Support Engineers as needed, ensuring complete control over the granularity of access permissions.
How does the BYOC model manage scalability?
Just like Zilliz Cloud SaaS, the BYOC model incorporates AutoScale, which automatically adjusts your resources based on demand. This ensures seamless scaling for both control and data operations, relieving our customers of manual scaling concerns.
What is the process for upgrading like for BYOC?
Upgrades in the BYOC model are performed via rolling updates, all of which are seamlessly handled by Zilliz, guaranteeing no downtime for customers.
Are there any specific technical requirements for using the BYOC model?
To use BYOC, customers must utilize Kubernetes hosted on AWS (EKS), GCP (GKE), or Azure (AKS) to orchestrate services in their environment. Additionally, certain cloud resources and services are needed. For complete details, please refer to our documentation.
How are disaster recovery and data backup handled in the BYOC model?
We support multi-region disaster recovery and cross-region data backup for enhanced data safety.
What data is sent out of my private VPC, and is it secure?
Only encrypted alerts and aggregated monitoring metrics are sent via a secure link from your VPC to the control plane. You have the option to keep monitoring metrics within your VPC and can instead grant Zilliz Support view access through tools like Grafana or Datadog.

Zilliz Cloud BYOC

Your Cloud.Your Control. Zilliz-Powered AI.

Deploy Zilliz Cloud in Your Own Cloud

How does Zilliz Cloud BYOC work?

Optimized for Enterprise Vector Search

Data Security and Compliance

Fine-grained Control

Cost Saving

Fully Managed

Zilliz Cloud BYOC Example Use Cases

Cost Reduction

Compliance Requirement

Data Sovereignty

Security and Compliance

Zilliz Cloud SaaS and BYOC Comparison

Control your data sovereignty with fully managed Zilliz Cloud BYOC

Your Cloud.Your Control.

Zilliz-Powered AI.