Enable bring your own cloud (BYOC)

Enabling the bring your own cloud (BYOC) feature allows you to create custom clouds in your Aiven organization.

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Enabling the BYOC feature or creating custom clouds in your Aiven environment does not affect the configuration of your existing Aiven organizations, projects, or services. It only allows you to run Aiven services in your cloud provider account.

To be able to create custom clouds on the Aiven platform, first you need to enable the BYOC feature. The Aiven Console offers a quick and easy way to set up a short call with the Aiven sales team to identify your use cases and confirm the requirements. In the call, we make sure BYOC can address them, and we check your environment eligibility for the feature.

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Before enabling BYOC, check who is eligible for BYOC and review feature limitations and prerequisites.

Required access

You must be a super admin to enable this feature.

Limitations

• You need at least the Advanced tier of Aiven support services to be eligible for activating BYOC.
• Only super admins can request enabling BYOC.

Prerequisites

• Super admin role for your Aiven organization
• Access to the Aiven Console
• Active account with your cloud provider

Enable BYOC

1. Log in to the Aiven Console, and go to your organization.

2. Click Admin in the top navigation, and click Bring your own cloud in the sidebar.

3. In the Bring your own cloud view, click Contact us.

4. In the Contact us window, enter your email address and country. Select the cloud provider, add any other information you think might be relevant, and click Confirm.

   The scheduling assistant shows up so that you can schedule a short call with the Aiven sales team to proceed on your BYOC enablement request.

5. Using the scheduling assistant, select a date and time when to talk to our sales team to share your requirements and make sure BYOC suits your needs. Confirm the selected time, make sure you add the call to your calendar, and close the the scheduling assistant.

6. Join the scheduled call with our sales team to follow up with us on enabling BYOC in your environment.

   If the call reveals BYOC addresses your needs and your environment is eligible for BYOC, the feature will be enabled for your Aiven organization.

Next steps

With BYOC activated in your Aiven organization, you can create and use custom clouds:

• By yourself if using AWS or GCP.
• By contacting the Aiven team if using Azure or OCI.

Related pages

• About bring your own cloud (BYOC)
• Create a custom cloud
• Assign a project to your custom cloud
• Add customer's contact information for your custom cloud
• Tag custom cloud resources
• Rename your custom cloud