BYOC (bring your own cloud)
Running the inference data plane inside the customer’s cloud for dedicated SLOs, isolation, and explicit KV orchestration.
BYOC moves execution into the customer’s environment - private networking, regional isolation, stronger purge evidence, and explicit control over the KV hierarchy via runtimes like Dynamo, SGLang, and LMCache.
Zumik treats BYOC as an evidence-gated escalation, not a default. It is activated only when replay shows that explicit KV orchestration or isolation justifies the operational cost.
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BYOK (bring your own key)
Using the customer’s own provider credentials so billing, quotas, and retention follow their provider agreements.
KV cache
The stored key/value attention tensors a model computes during prefill, kept so the same prefix does not have to be recomputed.
Replay
A controlled experiment that re-runs a captured workload shape against candidate execution profiles to compare cost, latency, and capture.
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Definitions are useful; measurement is better. Run a diagnostic on your own workload.