Redpanda goes BYOC blue on Azure 

Unified streaming data company Redpanda this summer announced the integration of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service with Microsoft Azure… but what exactly does this BYOC term mean?

According to Confluent, “BYOC is a deployment model where the vendor deploys their software in a customer’s virtual private cloud (VPC), while the data lives in a cloud-based environment. BYOC can be operationally challenging to use and introduces additional complexities with an ambiguous shared support model between the vendor, cloud provider, and customer.”

On the Redpanda side, the company says that this release responds to growing user demand for flexible data infrastructure options. 

The company also says that Redpanda BYOC users can combine, ‘simplicity and data sovereignty’ for their streaming data workloads, with fully managed cluster scalability and support directly within Azure. 

By combining Redpanda’s high-performance streaming platform with Azure’s cloud environment, the company says that users can create real-time applications across various regions and availability zones.

“We’re continually working to meet our customers where they are,” said Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda. “By bringing Redpanda Cloud to Azure, we’re providing our users with more flexibility and choice in how they connect and stream their mission-critical data to power innovative real-time and AI applications. The new integration expands our cloud footprint across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and now Azure’s advanced services.”

The expansion supports Azure Private Link, enabling extra security for Redpanda Cloud users who need to ensure that traffic remains on Microsoft’s private network. 

Clusters are also SOC 2 Type 2 certified, and receive 24/7 support from Redpanda. Users also inherit existing Redpanda Enterprise support for Tiered Storage using both Azure Blob Storage (ABS) and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). 

As part of this integration, Redpanda also provides open-source connectors to Azure services  through Redpanda Connect, which was introduced in May of this year. Customers can access the connectors for free and host them alongside their Redpanda BYOC deployment in Azure.