Customer-Hosted Runtime
A customer-hosted runtime is an enforcement component deployed within the customer's own infrastructure rather than as a vendor-managed cloud service, ensuring that sensitive tool calls and credentials never leave the customer's environment.
Why this matters for AI agents
Enterprise security teams require that enforcement infrastructure for sensitive agent actions runs in their own environment. A vendor-hosted enforcement layer introduces a trust boundary that many security requirements prohibit.
How AgntID relates
AgntID is designed for customer-hosted deployment—infrastructure teams deploy the enforcement layer inside their own environment, with full control over policy and credential handling.
The static IAM gap
IAM is cloud-provider-hosted. For organizations with strict data residency or compliance requirements, a customer-hosted enforcement layer is necessary for the runtime access control layer.
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What is a customer-hosted runtime?
A customer-hosted runtime is an enforcement component deployed within the customer's own infrastructure rather than as a vendor-managed cloud service, ensuring that tool calls and credentials never leave the customer's environment.
Why do enterprise security teams require customer-hosted enforcement?
A vendor-hosted enforcement layer introduces a trust boundary that many compliance frameworks, data residency requirements, and security policies prohibit.
How does AgntID support customer-hosted deployment?
AgntID is designed for customer-hosted deployment. Infrastructure teams deploy the enforcement layer inside their own environment, maintaining full control over policy evaluation and credential handling.
Secure every agent tool call at execution time.
AgntID gives infrastructure teams scoped, ephemeral access control for AI agents without replacing IAM, MCP servers, tools, or agent frameworks.