Self-Hosting for Enterprise

Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific compliance requirements make data sovereignty non-negotiable for many organizations. When you send data to external AI services, you lose visibility into how that data is processed, stored, and potentially used for training.

Self-hosted AI infrastructure keeps your data within your control. Every query, every response, every embedding stays on your servers, subject to your security policies and compliance requirements.

When you self-host, security becomes a feature you control. Want to run your AI infrastructure air-gapped? You can. Need to implement custom authentication that integrates with your existing identity provider? Done. Want to audit every request at the network level? It's your infrastructure.

ARES is designed with enterprise security in mind: JWT authentication, role-based access control, comprehensive audit logging, and TLS everywhere. But because you own the deployment, you can extend and customize these features to meet your specific requirements.

Self-hosting doesn't mean on-premise only. ARES runs anywhere: your data center, your private cloud, your VPC in AWS or Azure. The key is that you control the infrastructure and the data flow.

Our Docker-based deployment makes it easy to run ARES on any container orchestration platform. Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm, pick the platform that fits your existing infrastructure and operations expertise.

Cloud AI services charge per token, per query, per API call. When you're processing millions of requests, costs can spiral unpredictably. Self-hosting gives you fixed infrastructure costs that you can plan and budget for.

Yes, you'll invest more upfront in infrastructure and expertise. But for organizations with significant AI workloads, self-hosting often proves more economical in the long run, and you get all the security and control benefits on top.