REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — April 29, 2025 — Zilliz, creator of the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database Milvus, today announced the launch of Zilliz Cloud BYOC-I, a major advancement in its Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) solutions. With BYOC-I, Zilliz Cloud sets a new industry standard for data sovereignty, enabling enterprises to deploy AI applications with full infrastructure control, uncompromised security, and regulatory compliance — without sacrificing performance or operational simplicity.
“As AI adoption accelerates, enterprises can no longer afford to choose between innovation and governance,” said Charles Xie, founder and CEO of Zilliz. “Zilliz Cloud BYOC-I puts organizations in full control of their data and infrastructure while maintaining the operational simplicity and performance they expect from a modern cloud service.”
Enterprise AI, Without Compromising Control
Zilliz Cloud now offers two flexible BYOC deployment models to meet the varying needs of enterprises:
- BYOC (Standard): Zilliz provisions and manages compute and storage resources inside the customer’s cloud account via cross-account roles. This model delivers operational simplicity while maintaining data within the customer’s VPC and providing optional PrivateLink support for secure communications.
- BYOC-I (New): Zilliz introduces a new customer-first model where a lightweight BYOC Agent is deployed inside the customer’s VPC. All data, infrastructure, and operations remain fully under customer control. Zilliz cannot access, scale, or modify infrastructure without explicit customer action, offering an unprecedented level of security for highly regulated industries.
Key highlights of BYOC-I:
- Total Data Sovereignty: All resources stay within the customer’s cloud environment.
- No Infrastructure Access: Zilliz has zero visibility or access to customer compute, storage, or network configurations without permission.
- Secure Communications: Built-in reverse tunnels with optional PrivateLink integration.
- Audit Logging: Fine-grained, real-time logs streamed directly to customer-owned storage.
- Compliance Ready: Meet GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and other regional and industry-specific regulations.
Enabling Secure, Scalable AI Across Industries
From fraud detection in financial services to diagnostic systems in healthcare, enterprises can now deploy advanced vector search applications while meeting the strictest compliance mandates.
“Security teams aren’t just gatekeepers—they’re expected to enable AI adoption without compromising risk postures,” said Xie. “Zilliz Cloud BYOC-I transforms security and compliance from obstacles into accelerators of enterprise AI.”
Built for the Modern AI Stack
Whether customers choose BYOC or BYOC-I, they gain access to Zilliz Cloud’s leading capabilities:
- Scalable Vector Search: Handle billions of vectors with sub-10ms latency.
- Hybrid Search Support: Combine vector, text, and metadata search seamlessly.
- Advanced Compression: Optimize storage and compute with techniques like Int8 compression and RabitQ 1-bit quantization.
- Open Source Foundation: Built on Milvus, trusted by 10,000+ organizations worldwide.
Availability
Zilliz Cloud BYOC and BYOC-I are available now. To learn more, read our blog post or contact sales for a personalized demo.
Zilliz builds next-generation vector database technologies that help organizations unlock the value of unstructured data and rapidly develop AI and machine learning applications. By simplifying complex data infrastructure, Zilliz brings the power of AI within reach for enterprises, teams, and individual developers alike. Zilliz offers a fully managed, multi-cloud vector database service powered by open-source Milvus, supporting major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, and is available across more than 20 countries and regions.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors including Aramco’s Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others.
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