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Redpanda Bring Your Own Cloud Deployment: Fully Managed Enterprise Data Streaming
Achieve unmatched performance, data sovereignty, and compliance without managing infrastructure—Redpanda BYOC deployment does it for you. This model runs in your own cloud environment, giving your organization complete control over infrastructure, data access, and cloud resources—without the operational burden.
Deploy Redpanda Clusters in your own cloud environment
BYOC (bring your own cloud) provides a fully managed Kafka API compatible streaming environment:
- Redpanda Clusters run in your own Cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- We manage provisioning, 24/7 monitoring, and maintenance (security patches and fixes)
- 99.99% availability SLA
- Sensitive data and credentials never leave your environment
Data Sovereignty
Retain full control over your data while ensuring compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA.
Unmatched Performance
Up to 4 GB/s read throughput for low-latency, high-scale workloads.
Cost Efficiency
Eliminate egress fees, reduce cloud spend, and optimize infrastructure.
Hands-Free Operations
Focus on innovation while Redpanda handles maintenance, upgrades, and monitoring.
Multicloud Flexibility
Deploy on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Massive Scalability
Support for 112,500 partitions and 450,000 connections.
Reliability You Can Trust
Achieve 99.99% SLA with built-in redundancy.
Advanced Security
SSO, RBAC, audit logging, and OIDC integration ensure compliance.
Developer-Centric Tools
Intuitive CLI, Kafka-compatible APIs, and comprehensive dashboards.
Redpanda BYOC is built differently
In a BYOC architecture, you deploy the data plane in your own VPC. The control plane manages cluster operations, enforcing policies and enabling RBAC for organization-level resources like clusters and networks. The data plane, where your cluster runs, handles topics, consumer groups, connectors, and schemas.
How does BYOC compare to Serverless?
Explore what’s best for your needs - Redpanda BYOC or Redpanda Serverless
Multi-tenant SaaS Redpanda Serverless | Private SaaS Redpanda BYOC | |
|---|---|---|
Multi-tenant serverless offering with no infrastructure to manage. Get started quickly with zero operational overhead. | Fully-managed Redpanda clusters run in your VPC (AWS, Azure, GCP), with no data leaving your environment. | |
| Cloud Environment | Multi-tenant (AWS, GCP) | Customer’s Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) |
| Write Throughput | 100 MB/s | 2 GB/s |
| Partitions | 5,000 | 112,500 |
| Networking | Public/Private | Public/Private |
| SLA | 99.9% | 99.99% |
| Support | Enterprise (with annual commitment) | Enterprise |
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BYOC frequently asked questions
Redpanda BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is a fully managed, Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that runs inside your own cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure). Unlike traditional SaaS offerings like Confluent Cloud, Redpanda BYOC gives you full control over your data, infrastructure, and security.
It’s a BYOC deployment model purpose-built for organizations that need data sovereignty, tighter cloud access controls, and full ownership of their cloud environment—all while benefiting from a fully managed streaming platform.
Yes. Redpanda BYOC keeps all your data within your VPC or private cloud infrastructure. This means you own the data plane, perfect for companies with strict security, compliance, or data sovereignty requirements. Redpanda is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports features like TLS encryption, RBAC, SSO, and audit logging to help you meet HIPAA, GDPR, and other compliance needs.
In addition, Redpanda integrates with your existing cloud provider's identity and security services, giving your team unified control over data access, network policies, and role-based permissions. This BYOC deployment model ensures that sensitive information never leaves your cloud account, helping organizations stay compliant while reducing exposure to third-party risks. It's a secure cloud environment for building streaming applications that demand enterprise-grade protection.
Engineers love Redpanda because it delivers Kafka compatibility without the complexity of other cloud services. It's written in C++ (not Java), requires no ZooKeeper, and offers ultra-low latency and high throughput out of the box. With Redpanda BYOC, developers can build real-time applications faster, avoid JVM tuning, and deploy directly in their cloud environment, all while using the same Kafka tools they already know. It’s a modern, fully managed streaming platform designed to optimize performance, reduce operational overhead, and give teams more control over their cloud infrastructure.
Absolutely. As a trusted provider, Redpanda is a drop-in replacement for Kafka, supporting the Kafka API out of the box. That means your existing producers, consumers, connectors, and tools like Kafka Streams, Flink, and ksqlDB will work seamlessly, no code changes required.
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