Microsoft Presidio Self-Hosted
The logs streamed. Microsoft Presidio was running—self-hosted, under your control. No third-party pipelines. No external calls. Just raw text in, clean data out.
Microsoft Presidio Self-Hosted gives you the full power of open-source PII detection and anonymization without sending sensitive information into managed services. It runs where you run: on-prem, in your VPC, inside your Kubernetes cluster, or even on a single local machine. You own every byte.
The core of Presidio is a set of microservices that detect, classify, and redact personally identifiable data from free text, structured fields, or even audio. When self-hosted, these services are deployed with Docker or Kubernetes, using official images or your own builds. Configuration is done with YAML or environment variables. Models and recognizers can be extended or replaced, giving you complete flexibility over accuracy and coverage.
A self-hosted deployment removes external dependencies. Latency drops. Compliance barriers shrink. You decide when to upgrade. You decide how to scale. And you integrate Presidio directly into your data pipelines without exposing data beyond your network boundary.
Popular use cases include processing user messages in real time, sanitizing datasets before analytics, and anonymizing logs before storage. By running Microsoft Presidio on your own infrastructure, you can handle PII detection at high volume without risking leaks or violating data residency laws.
Installation is straightforward. Pull the official Docker images. Configure your recognizers. Expose the API endpoints to your internal services. Orchestrate with Kubernetes if you need horizontal scaling. Connect it to your message queues, ETL jobs, or event-driven functions. Test with included sample data to verify detection, then feed it production workflows.
Self-hosting Presidio also makes it easier to integrate custom recognizers for industry-specific identifiers. Examples include financial account numbers, internal IDs, or domain-specific terms. With your own build, you can package private models alongside the core engine, keeping all model weights internal.
Security is explicit. The API stays behind your firewall. No SaaS tenancy. Encryption is applied by your own stack. Logging is under your control. Audit everything from requests to processed datasets.
Microsoft Presidio Self-Hosted is not just an option—it is the path for teams that need open-source control with enterprise-grade data protection.
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