No False Trade-Offs: Introducing Ververica Bring Your Own Cloud for Microsoft Azure

19 February 2026 by Serhat Yanıkoğlu and Karin Landers

Azure customers demand it. In 2026, Ververica delivers.

Ververica’s Unified Streaming Data Platform, powered by VERA, the cloud-native engine that revolutionizes Apache Flink®, is now available directly inside your Azure infrastructure with Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment.

Your Environment, Our Platform

Most "managed services" force a choice: control or convenience. That's a false trade-off built on old assumptions. BYOC doesn't ask you to pick. You get enterprise-grade streaming data orchestration without surrendering data residency, network security, or cloud spending control.

While others make you choose, Ververica delivers both. For data teams building real-time systems on Azure, this changes everything.

Cloud Economic and Security Problems: Three Constraints, One Solution.

Organizations running stream processing workloads on Azure don’t face technical challenges. They face institutional truths:

Data residency and compliance aren’t optional.
Regulated industries can’t afford ambiguity. Data must stay within specific geographic boundaries and security perimeters. Moving streaming workloads to external SaaS platforms doesn’t just create compliance risk, it results in compliance failure.
Cloud economics aren’t negotiable.

Enterprises commit millions to Azure consumption agreements and negotiate preferential pricing for a reason. Other managed data platforms ask them to pay full SaaS list prices while their existing Azure commitments sit unused. That’s not a technical limitation, it's a bad deal.
Zero-trust architecture isn’t a suggestion.

Security teams don’t mandate network isolation and prohibit external data egress because they’re cautious. They do it because breaches are a “when, not if” situation. Traditional Saas models that require data to leave your corporate perimeters don’t just fail to comply with zero-trust principles, they violate them entirely.

Built for industries where real-time decisions and compliance requirements are business-essential: Financial Services. Healthcare. Telecom. Government. These aren’t edge cases. These are industries where stream processing is mission-critical. Where latency costs money. Where governance isn’t a feature, it’s the foundation of the business itself. You don’t need workarounds. You need what only Ververica’s Bring Your Own Cloud delivers.

How BYOC Works: Your Infrastructure, Managed by Ververica

Ververica’s BYOC deployment runs entirely inside your Azure subscription. We manage the platform operations through a secure control plane connection.

No ambiguity. No exceptions. No data egress.

Your Azure environment = Your control.
The VERA-powered stream processing cluster deploys in your Azure environment, in your selected region. Data stays in your Azure Blob Storage. Processing happens on your compute resources. You retain full control over network configuration, IAM policies, and resource access.
Ververica's control plane = Your operational advantage.
Through a secure control plane connection, Ververica orchestrates your compute resources, manages your stream processing jobs, monitors deployment and cluster health, performs operational tasks, and handles software upgrades.

The connection is designed and purpose built for zero-trust security: Your cluster connects to Ververica's control plane only for deployment management. No stream processing data leaves your environment. Ever.

This is the architecture enterprises demand: The operational simplicity of a managed service, with the security and cost benefits of a self-hosted infrastructure.
This isn’t a compromise between two bad options. This is both, finally done right.

Three Core Benefits of BYOC

Benefit One: Zero-Trust Security and Absolute Data Residency

BYOC doesn’t adopt zero-trust security principles. It enforces them by design and architecture.

Your data never leaves your Azure environment. Not “most data”. Not “processing data.” All data. Your event streams, state checkpoints, processing results all stay in your Blob Storage, governed by your access policies and your encryption keys.

The cluster operates entirely within your network. BYOC runs inside your Azure environment, so no additional secure access over the internet is required. Network access to Ververica's control plane is outbound-only and limited to deployment management APIs.

No inbound connections. No data egress. Full compliance with data sovereignty requirements.

This isn’t simply a feature, it’s the very foundation.

Ververica’s BYOC architecture

Image one: Ververica’s BYOC architecture

Benefit Two: Cloud Cost Optimization Through Azure Spend

BYOC lets you apply your Azure consumption commitments and negotiated discounts to your stream processing infrastructure. You consume your own Azure resources (compute, storage, and networking) at your contracted rates.

Not third-party Saas list pricing. Your pricing.

For enterprises with large Azure commitments, this approach eliminates the absurd economics of paying external SaaS vendors while leaving your previously committed Azure spend on the table.

Billing runs through Azure Marketplace, consolidating your stream processing platform subscription with existing Azure procurement and invoicing. This means you have one vendor relationship and one invoice, with no procurement friction.

Benefit Three: Native Integration with Azure Services

BYOC deployments integrate directly with Azure-native services within your network. Your stream processing workloads connect to Azure Event Hubs for event ingestion, Azure Blob Storage for lakehouse architectures, and Azure PostgreSQL, and MySQL for enrichment and sinks.

All connectivity happens within your Azure environment. No public internet traversal. No unnecessary data transfer costs. No architectural compromises because your data platform lives somewhere else. This is what native integration really means.

Flexible Pricing Through Azure Marketplace

Ververica Cloud BYOC is available through Azure Marketplace with flexible commitment options. We don’t force you into pricing models that don’t match your business reality.

Pay-As-You-Go: Usage-based pricing with no upfront commitment. Scale when you need to. Pay for what you actually use.
Monthly and Annual Plans: Predictable pricing for steady-state workloads. No surprises. No overage penalties.
Multi-Year Commitments: Volume discounts for long-term strategic deployments. Reward commitment with economics that make sense.

All subscriptions consolidate into your existing Azure billing. Payments process through your Microsoft commercial agreements. No procurement theater. No separate invoicing headaches.

Ververica makes this easy, with one platform, one marketplace, and one bill.

Built on VERA: Performance at Scale

BYOC deployments run on VERA, Ververica's proprietary engine built by the original creators of Apache Flink. We didn’t just optimize Flink for cloud-native performance. We perfected it.

Up to 2x faster processing compared to open-source Flink. Not just in benchmarks. In production.
Native support for lakehouse architectures with Apache Paimon. Real-time analytics on cost-effective storage without architectural gymnastics.
Dynamic complex event processing capabilities. Pattern detection and stream reasoning that adapts in real time, not in the next batch window.

Whether you're processing millions of events per second for fraud detection, building real-time customer 360 analytics, or powering agentic AI systems with real-time inference, BYOC delivers enterprise-grade performance without operational overhead.Most data platforms make you choose between speed and manageability. VERA eliminates the question completely. This is what stream processing looks like when the people who invented it build it for production.

Get Started

Ververica’s Unified Streaming Data Platform on Azure is available now.

Existing Ververica Customers

Enable BYOC deployments from the Ververica Cloud console:

Deploy your cluster into your Azure environment
Subscribe to a BYOC Azure subscription, and link it to your Ververica Cloud account
Connect your cluster to your Ververica Cloud account
Start deploying your stream processing jobs!