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Deployment Modes

Kumo is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, with state-of-the-art security controls and compliance practices guided by industry standards like NIST 800-53, NIST 800-53, and ISO 27000 series.

Enterprise support: Kumo’s data scientists work side-by-side with you to debug models, co-develop predictive queries, and more.

Standard support: Kumo’s data scientists respond to questions over Slack with a 24-hour SLA. Video calls provided during office hours.

Kumo can be deployed in two ways:

(a) the Kumo SaaS deployment provides an Apache Spark-based data platform, expanded choice of supported data warehouses, earlier feature access, quicker bug fixes, and easier access to Kumo’s enterprise support tier.

(b) The Data Warehouse Native option allows you to bring your own data platform (Snowflake or Databricks) and access Kumo's highly accurate predictions without raw data stored or materialized outside of your boundary.

Data storage is always in your environment regardless of deployment option, and you can choose the deployment option that best aligns to their organizational data governance policies and preferences.

The following table provides an overview of the different deployment options:

SaaS (GA)

Data Warehouse Native

(Private Preview)

Data Warehouse Native

(Private Preview)

Customer data warehouse

Amazon Redshift, AWS S3, Google Cloud BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake

Databricks

Snowflake 

Data storage

Your own

Your own

Snowflake objects (e.g., tables, views, etc.) in your own account

Data cache

Kumo-owned and managed

Customer’s Databricks Unity Catalog Volume storage 

Snowflake stage in your own account

Data platform

Kumo-managed Apache Spark

Databricks Spark in your own Databricks account

Snowpark DataFrame in your own Snowflake account via Snowpark Container Services  

ML compute

Kumo-owned and managed compute

Kumo-owned and managed compute

Kumo services in Snowpark containers

PII and sensitive data handling (GDPR compliance)

Your own retention policy

No data on disk in a Kumo-owned environment; data leaving your environment is transformed and encoded

No data on disk in a Kumo owned environment; no data leaves your environment

Access to private preview features

Yes

Yes

No

Access to Enterprise support tier

Yes

Yes

Kumo requires temporary elevated access and logs