Imply Launches Lumi Enterprise, a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud Offering Designed for Observability Data

Imply announced Lumi Enterprise, a new Bring-Your-Own-Cloud offering of Imply Lumi, the industry’s first Observability Warehouse.

Purpose-built as a data layer for observability, Lumi Enterprise enables organizations to significantly reduce observability costs while improving query performance, without disrupting existing workflows or compromising data sovereignty requirements.

The enterprise edition introduces a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) architecture that runs Imply Lumi entirely inside an organization’s AWS environment. Data, encryption keys and infrastructure remain under the organization’s control, eliminating the traditional tradeoff between data sovereignty and operational simplicity.

Across industries including financial services, healthcare, government, and large-scale technology, organizations face increasing pressure to retain and analyze growing volumes of operational data while maintaining strict control over where that data resides.

“Enterprises need to keep sensitive operational data inside their own environments for governance and compliance,” said Eric Tschetter, Chief Architect at Imply. “But self-managed observability systems often create operational overhead, forcing teams to track releases, test updates, and patch security issues just to stay current.”

Lumi Enterprise was built to address these challenges, giving organizations full control of their data while eliminating the operational burden traditionally associated with running observability infrastructure.

Lumi Enterprise introduces a fully managed model that runs entirely within the customer’s AWS account, combining the control of self-hosted systems with the simplicity of a managed service.

Unlike traditional BYOC models, Imply does not require direct IAM access to customer’s environments. Organizations retain full control of their infrastructure, security policies, and data access.

The architecture includes a lightweight Client deployed within the customer’s AWS environment and Amazon EKS cluster that:

This model enables centralized monitoring and lifecycle management while preserving full visibility for governance, auditing, and compliance.

Lumi Enterprise is designed to align the needs of security, platform, and business stakeholders:

Organizations frequently reduce observability storage and investigation costs by 60-80% compared to indexing all data in Splunk, while retaining significantly more telemetry.

“Organizations want to retain more telemetry without letting observability costs spiral,” said Stephen Catanzano, Senior Analyst at Omdia. “Technologies that dramatically reduce storage while keeping data accessible give teams the ability to analyze far more data without the cost burden of traditional indexing approaches.”

Imply Lumi’s compression technology enables organizations to store 1TB of raw data while using only one-third the storage capacity.

“With Imply Lumi, we can ingest more data, retain it longer, pull in telemetry from platforms beyond Splunk, and still understand what our costs will look like as we scale,” said Rafael Hass, Security Information Manager at BTG Pactual. “Lumi lets us expand what we can do with our observability data and it’s fundamentally changed how our team operates.”

Source: Imply media announcement