# Deployment Methods

Decube supports three deployment models: Multi-Tenant SaaS, Single-Tenant SaaS, and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). Regardless of the deployment type, customer data security and metadata integrity are always core priorities.

## Deployment Models - High-Level Comparison

| Feature                       | Multi-Tenant SaaS                 | Single-Tenant SaaS               | Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)                                    |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Control Plane**             | Shared (Decube-hosted)            | Shared (Decube-hosted)           | Shared (Decube-hosted)                                         |
| **Data Plane**                | Shared                            | Dedicated per customer           | Deployed in customer’s cloud                                   |
| **Data Residency**            | Decube Cloud (AWS)                | Decube Cloud (AWS)               | Customer’s Cloud                                               |
| **Isolation Level**           | Logical isolation                 | Logical + infra isolation        | Full physical and logical isolation                            |
| **Ideal For**                 | Startups, SMBs, general use cases | Enterprises needing more control | Highly regulated industries, on-premise or data-locality needs |
| **Setup Complexity**          | Minimal                           | Minimal                          | High (requires cloud deployment setup)                         |
| **Customer-Controlled Infra** | No                                | No                               | Yes (data plane fully controlled)                              |

To see the details for each deployment method, please go to the respective pages:

* [SaaS](/security-and-infrastructure/deployment-methods/saas-multi-tenant.md) (Multi-Tenant)
* [SaaS](/security-and-infrastructure/deployment-methods/saas-multi-tenant.md) (Single-Tenant)
* [Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC)](/security-and-infrastructure/deployment-methods/bring-your-own-cloud-byoc.md)


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