ScyllaDB Cloud: Fully-Managed in Your Own Google Cloud Account

You can now run ScyllaDB’s monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database within your own Google Cloud (GCP) accounts We’re pleased to share that ScyllaDB Cloud is now available with the Bring Your Own (Cloud) Account model on Google Cloud. This means: ScyllaDB runs inside your private Google Cloud account. Your data remains fully under your control and never leaves your Google Cloud account. Your database operations, updates, monitoring, and maintenance are all managed by ScyllaDB Cloud. Existing cloud contracts and loyalty programs can be applied to your ScyllaDB Cloud spend. This is the same deployment model that we’ve offered on AWS for nearly 4 years. The BYOA model is frequently requested by teams who want both: The fully managed ScyllaDB Cloud service with near-zero operations and maintenance. The regionality, governance, and billing benefits that come from running in your private cloud account It’s especially well-suited for highly regulated industries like healthcare and finance with Data privacy, compliance, and data sovereignty guarantees. With BYOA, all ScyllaDB servers, storage, networking, and IP addresses are created in your cloud account. Data never leaves your VPC environment; all database resources remain under your ownership and governance policies. For additional security, ScyllaDB Cloud runs Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), our transparent database-level encryption, encrypting all the data with CMK. If you are the target of a cyberattack, or you have a security breach, you can protect the data immediately by revoking the database key. Under the BYOA model, the infrastructure costs are paid directly to the cloud provider. That means your organization can apply its existing GCP commitments and take advantage of any available discounts, credits, or enterprise agreements (e.g., Committed Use, Sustained Use, Enterprise Agreements(EA)). ScyllaDB Cloud costs are reduced to license and support fees.

NOTE: The Bring Your Own (Cloud) Account feature is often addressed as BYOC, spotlighting the “Cloud” aspect. We prefer the term “account” as it more accurately represents our offering, though both concepts are closely related.

How ScyllaDB BYOA Works on Google Cloud Once BYOA service is enabled for your GCP project , the ScyllaDB Cloud control plane can use the Google Cloud API to create the necessary resources in your designated GCP project. After the network is configured, ScyllaDB Cloud securely connects to your cluster’s VPC to provision and manage ScyllaDB database clusters. You can configure a VPC peering connection between your application VPC and your ScyllaDB dedicated cluster VPC (as shown on the right side of the diagram).   Our wizard will guide you through the configuration process for your GCP project. Using the wizard, you will configure one IAM role with policies to provision the required resources within the GCP project. ScyllaDB Cloud will operate using this role. Configuration To use the Bring Your Own Account feature, you will need to choose one project in your GCP account. This project will be used as a destination to provision your clusters. The specific policies required can be found  here. Make sure your Cloud quotas are as per the recommendation. Here’s a short guide on how you can configure your GCP account to work with ScyllaDB Cloud. You will need permissions to a GCP account and a very basic understanding of Terraform. Once you complete the setup, you can use your GCP Project as any other deployment target. In the create new cluster screen, you can  select this project next to ScyllaDB Cloud hosted option. In the “Create New Cluster” screen, you will be able to select this project alongside the ScyllaDB Cloud hosted option. You can select a geographical area (Region), the nature of access (private/public), and the expected instance type based on the volume of traffic, ScyllaDB Cloud will create a ScyllaDB cluster for you. From there, you can choose a geographical region, specify the type of access (public or private), and select the appropriate instance type based on your expected traffic volume. ScyllaDB Cloud will then provision and configure a cluster for you accordingly. Next steps ScyllaDB Cloud BYOA is currently live on Google Cloud Platform. If you’re ready to set up your account, you can go to http://cloud.scylladb.com to use our onboarding wizard and our step-by-step documentation. Our team is available to support you — from setup to production. Just ping your existing representative or reach out via forums, Slack, chat, etc.