Hybrid Work Pool Architecture

Prefect Cloud handles orchestration, scheduling, and observability. Your code and data stay exactly where they belong: in your environment. A lightweight worker process polls Prefect Cloud for scheduled work, then spins up flow runs on whatever compute you control. Docker containers, Kubernetes pods, bare metal. Your choice.

The security model is straightforward. Prefect Cloud never makes an inbound request into your network. It only receives metadata and state updates from your workers. This is why Fortune 500 companies in healthcare and banking run this architecture in production. They get enterprise-grade orchestration without exposing sensitive data or opening firewall holes.

You keep your infrastructure. You keep your data. Prefect handles the hard parts of scheduling and observability. For the technical details, see the work pool documentation. For security and compliance specifics, visit our Trust Center.