Why private cloud is on the roadmap
Regulated production workflows may require dedicated infrastructure, VPC peering, customer-managed keys, region pinning, strict data retention, and audit evidence. This page describes evaluation criteria and intended direction, not currently committed availability.
Private VPC roadmap
Planned capability for a dedicated network boundary with tenant-scoped ingress, egress, logs, and secrets.
Retention controls
Set document data retention by workflow, including zero data retention beyond request processing when the use case requires it.
Audit evidence
Export model version, region, reviewer, validation, and webhook evidence for compliance review.
Current and planned deployment options
| Option | Best fit | Controls |
|---|---|---|
| Shared cloud tenant | Standard API and portal workflows | Tenant isolation, encryption, regional residency, configurable retention |
| Dedicated tenant | Enterprise procurement and higher-volume workflows | Dedicated keys, rate limits, stricter access controls, custom DPA terms |
| Private VPC deployment — roadmap | Regulated buyers with requirements beyond shared SaaS | Planned private networking, BYOK/CMEK, and customer-specific boundaries |
| Controlled single-tenant cloud — roadmap | Customers evaluating operational isolation | Planned single-tenant compute and customer-specific observability boundaries |
Zero data retention and audit retention are different
Zero data retention means source documents and extracted content can be discarded after request processing. Audit metadata is a separate record: request ID, timestamps, model version, validation status, reviewer activity, and export decisions can be retained under your contract so compliance teams can still reconstruct what happened.
Private cloud evaluation checklist
Ask every document AI vendor where inference runs, whether embeddings leave the selected region, whether document bodies appear in logs, whether LLM sub-processors use zero-retention APIs, how key revocation works, and whether the audit trail records deployment region and model version. For Cogneris, confirm current availability in a signed deployment scope rather than relying on roadmap language.