Imply announced Lumi Enterprise, a new Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) offering of Imply Lumi, an Observability Warehouse.
Purpose-built as a data layer for observability, Lumi Enterprise enables organizations to significantly reduce observability costs while improving query performance, without disrupting existing workflows or compromising data sovereignty requirements.
The enterprise edition introduces a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) architecture that runs Imply Lumi entirely inside an organization’s AWS environment. Data, encryption keys and infrastructure remain under the organization’s control, eliminating the traditional tradeoff between data sovereignty and operational simplicity.
“Enterprises need to keep sensitive operational data inside their own environments for governance and compliance,” said Eric Tschetter, Chief Architect at Imply. “But self-managed observability systems often create operational overhead, forcing teams to track releases, test updates, and patch security issues just to stay current.”
Lumi Enterprise was built to address these challenges, giving organizations full control of their data while eliminating the operational burden traditionally associated with running observability infrastructure.
Lumi Enterprise introduces a fully managed model that runs entirely within the customer’s AWS account, combining the control of self-hosted systems with the simplicity of a managed service.
Imply does not require direct IAM access to customer’s environments. Organizations retain full control of their infrastructure, security policies, and data access.
The architecture includes a lightweight Client deployed within the customer’s AWS environment and Amazon EKS cluster that:
- Retrieves approved releases from Imply
- Applies updates within the customer’s environment
- Sends health and performance telemetry to Imply’s management plane
This model enables centralized monitoring and lifecycle management while preserving full visibility for governance, auditing, and compliance.
Lumi Enterprise is designed to align the needs of security, platform, and business stakeholders:
- Security teams maintain full control over sensitive data and compliance boundaries
- Platform teams eliminate the operational burden of managing observability infrastructure
- Business leaders benefit from a more efficient observability model.
Imply Lumi’s compression technology enables organizations to store 1TB of raw data while using only one-third the storage capacity.
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