# February Newsletter

> Product updates, and BYOC News.

Casey Bierman · 2026-03-03
Source: https://nuon.co/blog/newsletter-february-2026

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## New On Nuon

### Enforcing Security Policies

We’ve made some updates to [Policies](https://docs.nuon.co/concepts/policies) that enable them to run earlier in the lifecycle at the build and deploy levels. Also, complete with an updated UI and exportable policy report.

### Using AI to Build Nuon App Configs

In [Nuon Labs](https://labs.nuon.co/), we’ve added a new [Claude Plugin](https://github.com/nuonco/nuon-plugin) that makes Claude Code an expert at creating BYOC app configurations with the correct TOML structure, Go template wiring, and dependency ordering. This is a big time-saver and reduces friction when porting your app to Nuon.

### Update to the Customer Portal

You can now display all your apps in a single, seamless catalog view in the Customer Portal. The customer can quickly initiate an install of the vendor’s app from here — with no intervention from the vendor.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/3jtsca34/production/2e5cad7a5d3b854810b85bc0d153b0db4c7747bc-3480x1958.png?w=1200)

Vendors can also import and share completed installs with their end customers.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/3jtsca34/production/d1076ab3ce71c2db089f336b46ef833fea0724f1-3480x1958.png?w=1200)

### Update to the Vendor Dashboard

Installs can be set to auto-approve all workflow steps when creating an install from the install creation form. If customers initiate install from the Customer Portal, they will not be presented with approval steps either.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/3jtsca34/production/54ea6102b1733dea4e325cc1982eca5e2567a43c-3480x1958.png?w=1200)

### Google Cloud Support

Along with existing support for AWS and Azure, we now support Google Cloud as a provider to install a vendor’s app into.

## Fresh Off The Press

One of our engineers Fred Diego wrote a technical blog about how building a [BYOC solution can split the control plane and data plane](https://nuon.co/blog/byoc-control-plane-data-plane-architectures/) from the vendor and customer, saying, “sometimes you go to the data - sometimes the data comes to you.” We continue to see the split-plane BYOC architecture for many data-intensive apps like database and AI.

![](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/3jtsca34/production/1bace76b7bcdfd40a12a8c5a1ad764508f44ff6f-3840x2160.png?w=1200)

Mark Milligan, our VP of Revenue, also authored an [X article](https://x.com/sharkymark123/status/2027487122362442146?s=20) outlining the hard parts of BYOC and the current market viewpoints. This is a thought leadership piece that reflects the BYOC patterns of startups to established vendors and the three principles of BYOC that vendors will encounter.

## BYOC In The News

[Chamath Palihapitiya](https://x.com/chamath) asked on X [if on-premise is the new cloud](https://x.com/chamath/status/2022009107964899755?s=20) in an AI world. With Nuon founder [nuonjon](https://x.com/nuonjon) responding, “Bring Your Own Cloud is the way. Move your app to the model, not the other way around.”

[Zilliz](https://zilliz.com/) has made it a core pillar to let customers deploy fully managed vector search directly inside their own cloud accounts.

With the [announcement that Zilliz’s Microsoft Azure Bring Your Own Cloud](https://zilliz.com/blog/zilliz-cloud-byoc-now-available-across-aws-gcp-and-azure) offering is now generally available, organizations now have greater flexibility and control over their deployments.

[Ververica also ](https://www.ververica.com/)[announced its Microsoft Azure Bring Your Own Cloud offering](https://www.ververica.com/blog/no-false-trade-offs-introducing-ververica-bring-your-own-cloud-for-microsoft-azure).

Quoted saying, "Most managed services make you choose between control and convenience. With BYOC, you get both—enterprise-grade streaming data orchestration and full control over data and security."

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