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Introducing Ververica's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Deployment Offering

Written by Karin Landers | 22 October 2024

We are excited to introduce a powerful new deployment option for Ververica's Streaming Data Platform: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). This deployment provides a managed experience that uses your existing cloud resources to leverage the flexibility and scalability of Ververica’s Streaming Data Platform while maintaining full control over your cloud infrastructure.

At launch, our BYOC deployment will offer a seamless integration with AWS infrastructure, and will later expand to include other major cloud providers like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Why Bring Your Own Cloud? 

As the demand for scalable, real-time data streaming grows, companies increasingly need solutions that are not only highly performant, but that also integrate with their existing infrastructure. Ververica’s BYOC deployment harnesses the full capabilities of our Streaming Data Platform that is powered by the VERA engine. Built on and 100% compatible with Apache Flink®, Ververica allows you to solve both batch and real-time streaming use cases, while leveraging the security of your existing cloud environment. While some vendors have built cloud functionalities through acquisitions and mergers, Ververica’s BYOC deployment option was engineered and developed entirely in-house, by the original creators of Apache Flink.  

Zero-Trust at the Core: Bring Your Own Cloud with Ververica

As security threats continue to evolve, adopting a zero trust security¹ strategy has become essential for organizations aiming to protect their data and infrastructure. Gartner reports that more than 50% of organizations are moving toward a zero trust model. Ververica’s Bring Your Own Cloud deployment provides an effective solution that aligns with zero trust principles. With BYOC, you retain absolute data sovereignty, as your data is stored in object storage and hosted on a cloud environment fully controlled by your organization, ensuring full oversight and security.

 

IMAGE 1: ZERO TRUST & BYOC

Benefits of BYOC

  • Maintain Full Control Over Your Cloud Infrastructure
    BYOC gives you the power to configure, monitor, and scale your infrastructure exactly how you need it, ensuring your specific security and compliance requirements are met. You choose the cloud provider (AWS at launch, GCP and Azure added soon), the regions, and the resources that fit your business.
  • Seamless Integration with Your Existing Tech Stack
    When launched, you can deploy Ververica’s Streaming Data Platform on AWS, (shortly to include GCP and Azure,) and integrate with your existing DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and other critical tools. This means less downtime, faster implementations, and more efficient operations.
  • Optimized for Real-Time and Batch Processing
    Whether you're handling real-time data streams or batch workloads, Ververica’s BYOC deployment provides the flexibility to seamlessly scale up or down based on your operational needs. This allows you to access an ultra-high performance streaming data solution while maintaining cost-efficiency, and without compromising on your cloud strategy.
  • Security and Governance
    With BYOC, your data remains in your cloud, giving you complete control over security, data governance, and compliance. For industries like healthcare, finance, or any other highly regulated or sensitive business, you can rest assured that your data is handled with complete compliance to your internal policies. 
  • Cost Optimization
    Customers can leverage their preferential pricing and existing spend commitments with cloud providers by buying the Ververica Streaming Data Platform through cloud marketplaces like the AWS marketplace. Ververica’s usage-based pricing ensures that you only pay for what you use, and that your streaming infrastructure adapts elastically to what your business needs.

Who Should Consider BYOC?

Ververica’s BYOC deployment is ideal for enterprises that:

  • Want to retain full control over their cloud infrastructure. 
  • Prefer or require full observability of their data. 
  • Have specific security, governance, or compliance needs.
  • Use multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Have preferential pricing or spend commitments with cloud providers.
  • Need a flexible, scalable solution for real-time stream processing.
  • Want to utilize VERA, the engine revolutionizing Apache Flink for their streaming and batch processing projects, and will benefit from a managed Flink offering within their own cloud environment. 

How BYOC Works

Ververica’s BYOC offering is simple to set up and manage. After selecting your preferred cloud provider, you can deploy Ververica’s Streaming Data Platform with just a few clicks. Our dedicated customer support will guide you through the process, ensuring that your deployment is up and running smoothly.

From there, you can start leveraging Ververica’s Streaming Data Platform’s unparalleled streaming capabilities, allowing your teams to build, deploy, and manage stream processing applications with ease at any scale, all within your own cloud environment.

What's Next? 

At Ververica, we’re committed to empowering your streaming data projects with our Streaming Data Platform that provides a better-than Open Source Apache Flink experience, with speeds up to 2x faster than OS Flink. Our soon-to-be available BYOC deployment offering is just one of many steps we're taking to ensure that your stream processing solutions are as flexible, powerful, and secure as possible.

For more information on how you can get started with Ververica’s Streaming Data Platform, please contact us. Unsure of which deployment is right for you? We can help. 

More Resources

  • Learn more about the different deployment options available for Veverica’s Streaming Data Platform, and get started with Veverica to unlock the full power of Apache Flink as a managed service.
  • Learn more about VERA, the engine powering Ververica's Streaming Data Platform, in a 3-part blog series.