Exploring digital sovereignty: learning opportunities at re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community, will take place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, across multiple venues. At re:Invent, you can join cloud enthusiasts from around the world to hear the latest cloud industry innovations, meet with AWS experts, and build connections. Whether you want to build deep technical expertise, understand how to prioritize your investments, learn more about the infrastructure offerings of the sovereign-by-design AWS Cloud, or see how the AWS Nitro System enables enhanced security for your workloads, re:Invent is a great opportunity to explore our digital sovereignty solutions.

This year, there will be many ways that you can learn about our advanced sovereignty controls, security features, and infrastructure options that can help meet your unique digital sovereignty needs, including sessions and hands-on activities with AWS hybrid and edge services including AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS Outposts. In the Expo, you can visit the Digital Sovereignty & Data Protection kiosk in the AWS Village to watch demos, learn about the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and get your questions answered by AWS team members. To see AWS designed chips and Outposts devices, check out the AWS Next Gen Infrastructure Hub in the AWS Village. You can also visit the AWS Partner Network (APN) booth to connect with AWS Digital Sovereignty Partners to learn about the benefits of partner programs.

Breakout sessions and lightning talks

To add sessions to your AWS re:Invent agenda and find time and location information, choose the session title link.

SEC229 | Breakout | Digital sovereignty: overcome complexity and enable future-readiness
Max Peterson, VP, Sovereign Cloud, AWS
Organizations are facing increasing complexity in an evolving sovereignty landscape. Building a strong digital foundation can help simplify efforts to meet requirements today and prepare your organization for the future, without slowing innovation. Join this session to learn how AWS sovereign cloud offerings, ranging from encryption services to the announced AWS European Sovereign Cloud, provides more control and choice to help meet your unique needs. Discover how customers are keeping critical workloads secure and protected when leveraging new technologies on AWS, including generative AI, and learn about new digital sovereignty solutions offered by AWS Partners.

HYB201 | Breakout | AWS wherever you need it: From the cloud to the edge
Jan Hofmeyr, VP, EC2 Networking and Hybrid Edge, AWS, and Jeff Feist, Executive Director – Hosting Solutions, Merck & Co., Inc.
While most workloads can be migrated to the cloud, some remain on premises or at the edge due to low latency, local data processing, or digital sovereignty needs. In this session, learn how AWS services like AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS IoT Core support hybrid cloud and edge computing workloads such as multiplayer gaming, high-frequency trading, medical imaging, smart manufacturing, and generative AI applications with data residency requirements.

HYB309 | Breakout | Well-architected for data residency with hybrid cloud services
Sherry Lin, Principal Product Manager, AWS; Lakshmi VP, Specialist SA – Hybrid Edge, AWS; and Kevin Ng, Senior Director, Core Engineering Products, GovTech
With concerns over data privacy, security, and digital sovereignty, many countries across the world are strengthening data residency laws to keep personal and sensitive data within their borders. For organizations operating across multiple geographies, it can be challenging to meet the evolving data residency laws. In this session, following the AWS Well-Architected Framework, explore the best practices around data residency when using hybrid cloud services, including AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS Outposts.

IOT202 | Breakout | AWS IoT for edge LLM deployment and execution
Nikit Pednekar, Principal Product Manager, AWS, and Stefano Marzani, WW Tech Leader, SDX, AWS
With the advent of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), you must be wondering, how can these technologies be applied at the IoT edge? After all, there are many benefits of running LLMs at the edge—from network bandwidth efficiencies, offline processing, lower latency, and data sovereignty to cost savings, security, and differentiation. In this session, learn how using AWS IoT services and LLMs at the edge can uplift your solutions with actionable outcomes and innovative capabilities, such as gesture recognition, natural language processing for voice control, real-time predictive maintenance, energy optimization, anomaly detection, and more.

KUB310 | Breakout | Amazon EKS for edge and hybrid use cases
Chris Splinter, Product Manager, AWS, and Gokul Chandra Purnachandra Reddy, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
There are some workloads that may need to run on-premises, at the edge, or in a hybrid scenario due to low-latency, data dependencies, data sovereignty, or other regulatory reasons, especially in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, telco, and financial services. Data dependent workloads may have to wait for the data to be on AWS services before fully migrating. In this session, we will share production-ready architectures leveraging services like Amazon EKS Anywhere to run container workloads on-premises and support modernizing VMware-based workloads. Also learn best practices on migration of on-premises Kubernetes deployments to AWS Cloud.

PEX110 | Lightening Talk | Supercharge your growth and capabilities with partner programs
Mike Cannady, Director, Partner Core Public Sector, AWS
Discover the latest AWS Partner program updates that propel your public sector business forward. Join this lightning talk to explore innovations tailored to partners: generative AI programs, digital sovereignty, solution building, and managed services. Whether you’re starting out or seasoned, glean insights and use cases to elevate your journey. Don’t miss this opportunity to supercharge your development and stay ahead in this ever-evolving landscape.

Interactive sessions (chalk talks and workshops)

HYB304 | Workshop | Implement RAG without compromising on digital sovereignty
Aditya Lolla, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid Edge, AWS, and Robert Belson, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
As governments and standards bodies develop data protection and privacy regulations, organizations increasingly need to combine the use of generative AI tooling in the cloud with regulated data that need to remain on premises to meet data sovereignty requirements. In this workshop, learn how to extend Agents for Amazon Bedrock to hybrid and edge services like AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones to build distributed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications with on-premises data for improved model outcomes. Get hands-on with Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, and AWS hybrid and edge services, and build Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) compliant workflows using a hybrid S3 compatible solution. You must bring your laptop to participate.

WPS207 | Chalk Talk | How AWS can help you meet your digital sovereignty requirements
Mehmet Bakkaloglu, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS, and Addy Upreti, Principal Technical Product Manager – Digital Sovereignty, AWS
Customers in the public sector and regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services and telecom have shared how they face digital sovereignty concerns in their cloud journey. In this talk, you can learn about how AWS is sovereign-by-design and the range of capabilities that can enable you to meet your digital sovereignty needs. Plus, discover how the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is being built to provide further choice to meet these needs. We’ll talk through how AWS can help accelerate your cloud journey while meeting your requirements.

HYB310 | Chalk Talk | Addressing data residency requirements with hybrid and edge services
Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS, and Fabio Rodriguez, Head of Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect, AWS
Data residency is a critical consideration for organizations that collect and store sensitive information, including personal identifiable information (PII), financial data, healthcare data, or information pertaining to national security. To help organizations operating across multiple geographies drive innovation while meeting data residency requirements, AWS offers multiple global infrastructure offerings like AWS Regions, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts. In this interactive chalk talk, learn how these infrastructure offerings can help you accelerate digital transformation while meeting data residency needs.

For a full view of digital sovereignty content, including sessions with partners, explore the AWS re:Invent catalog and filter on the Digital Sovereignty area of interest. Not able to attend in-person? Register for free for the virtual-only pass to livestream keynotes and innovation talks, and access on-demand breakout sessions today. See you in Las Vegas or on the livestream!

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