Customer-controlled data plane
Place the selected runtime, storage, network paths, secrets, model endpoints, and enterprise-system connections inside the customer account according to the agreed architecture.
Bring your own cloud AI agent platform
Run governed AI agents in the cloud account you control
BlueBear’s BYOC pattern places selected agent runtime, data, networking, model, and integration resources in a customer-controlled cloud account while preserving a defined platform management and evidence path.
Design a BYOC deployment Compare BYOC and managed hostingBYOC is an ownership model, not a cloud logo
A credible BYOC design states which account holds each resource, who can administer it, where data and credentials travel, how software is upgraded, which telemetry leaves the account, how incidents are handled, and what happens when the customer ends the service. “Runs in your cloud” is incomplete without that responsibility map.
Core capabilities
Defined management plane
Document which BlueBear services coordinate provisioning, policy, updates, evidence, and support—and which controls remain entirely within the customer environment.
Workload identity
Prefer short-lived cloud workload identities and narrowly scoped service roles over shared static credentials embedded in applications, images, or agent prompts.
Private connectivity options
Use customer-selected virtual networks, subnets, private endpoints, firewall rules, DNS, egress controls, and hybrid connectivity to limit public exposure.
Customer model choice
Route to approved managed model services, private endpoints, or self-hosted inference such as vLLM according to availability, data, latency, and cost requirements.
Evidence and operations
Decide where logs, traces, audit records, usage data, alerts, backups, and incident artifacts live—and which parties can access each category.
Define the boundary before provisioning
BYOC succeeds when architecture, security, platform engineering, and procurement agree on ownership before infrastructure is created.
Step 1
Classify workloads and data
Identify systems, records, models, tools, actions, residency needs, recovery objectives, and regulated or customer-sensitive data.
Step 2
Assign every responsibility
Map account ownership, IAM, networking, secrets, patching, upgrades, telemetry, backups, support access, incident response, and offboarding.
Step 3
Provision through reviewed changes
Use versioned infrastructure plans, customer-approved roles, policy checks, and explicit approval before applying changes to the customer account.
Step 4
Test failure and exit paths
Validate credential revocation, network loss, model failure, rollback, restoration, evidence access, and removal of BlueBear access.
The exact split is deployment-specific
BlueBear supports cloud-account and Kubernetes deployment workflows, but BYOC does not mean every dependency automatically resides in the customer account. Model providers, communications services, software registries, support tooling, or control-plane components may remain external unless the architecture explicitly replaces or isolates them.
Customer ownership also brings operational duties. Availability, patching, quotas, networking, cloud costs, backups, and incident response must be assigned contractually and technically; otherwise BYOC can create more ambiguity rather than more control.
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Azure deployment
Azure-specific identity, networking, secrets, monitoring, and runtime decisions.
AWS deployment
AWS-specific account, IAM, VPC, secrets, runtime, and observability decisions.
Private deployment
Customer-operated infrastructure and restricted network patterns.
BYOC and data residency
Understand what residency does—and does not—guarantee.