BYOC stands for bring your own cloud. The vendor supplies the platform control plane, automation, and deploy workflow, while the compute, data, network, and cloud bill stay in an AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or DigitalOcean account you own. Applied to a PaaS, this is a self hosted platform, sometimes called a private PaaS.
On a rented PaaS your production environment is a tenancy that disappears if you leave. A BYOC platform provisions standard cloud resources in your account: VPCs, managed Kubernetes, load balancers, databases. Stop using the platform and the resources are still yours.
Rented platforms meter bandwidth at their own rates. Under BYOC, traffic egresses from your own account at your provider's prices, and committed use discounts, reserved instances, and startup credits all apply to the platform's infrastructure.
Rented platforms sell compliance back as a paid tier. Under BYOC, the BAA, audit logging, network policies, and encryption standards you already maintain in your own cloud account apply directly, because the platform runs inside them. Convox is HIPAA and PCI ready this way.
Self hosted Convox Racks carry no infrastructure markup. You pay AWS, Google, Azure, or DigitalOcean directly at list or negotiated prices, and pay Convox only for the Console, with plans from free to $999 per month.
Teams with compliance obligations, cloud spend commitments or credits, rented PaaS bills that grow with traffic, or a Kubernetes target without the appetite to operate Kubernetes. Starting smaller? Convox Cloud Machines run from $12 per month, and the same apps move into your own account later.
