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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 4, 2025

Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services.

At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data.

This change would provide additional control over data access and would further allow data sovereignty and compliance.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Matt Gerow
    Dec 9, 2025

    Thanks for the submission and context. At this stage - we don't have any plans to implement BYK but we will continue to monitor the votes/inputs on this submission and evaluate accordingly!

  • Guest
    Nov 24, 2025

    Copy from dicussions why BYOK (with CMK) is important vs. just Apptio managed key:

    Prospect looking for CMK with IBM Cloudability.

    We do not agree with the argument that the use of CMK significantly increases overhead and causes latency issues.

    The underlying technology is the AWS native AWS KMS key store and:

     

    Please note that <prospect> has internal security requirements stating that data stored in cloud workloads must be encrypted using customer-managed data at rest encryption keys, CMKs.

    Please download and review https://www.atlassian.com/whitepapers/cmk#download this whitepaper also mentions CMK performance  topics, including caching in detail. Atlassian products are heavily used by <prospect>.

     
     

  • Guest
    Nov 4, 2025

    This has been requested for Cloudability notably.