Name: Designing Sovereignty on AWS: From KMS to ESC (11/26)
Start: 2026-11-02T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-02T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Estonia

Hey fellow AWS enthusiasts! ✨

We take a closer look into Secruity and Encryption in November. Oliver Steenbuck, Sr Solutions Architect @ AWS, will tell us more about Sovereignty in AWS ESC when it comes to encryption options with AWS KMS (see more details of the talk below).

Thanks to our friends from codecentric for providing the location, as well as, food and drinks for the evening!

📆 Tonight's Agenda

19:00 - Welcoming

19:15 - Talk by Oliver

20:00 - Networking

Looking forward to seeing you 👋🏻

Frank & Nora.

The talk ⤵️

Designing Sovereignty on AWS: From KMS to European Sovereign Cloud

In this talk, we use our fictional startup Unicorn Rentals to walk through a practical sovereignty journey on AWS. We start with the basics of AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and progress through increasingly strict control models, including customer-managed keys, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), and dedicated cryptographic boundaries. From there, we explore what AWS Sovereign-by-Design means in practice and how the AWS European Sovereign Cloud extends those guarantees with additional control, residency, and isolation properties. You’ll learn: How AWS KMS works and which options you have for key storage and cryptographic operations When and why to move to HSM-based approaches How regions, partitions, and the European Sovereign Cloud fit into a sovereignty strategy You’ll leave with concrete patterns you can apply to design for sovereignty instead of bolting it on later.

The speaker⤵️

Oliver Steenbuck | LinkedIn

Oliver Steenbuck is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Webservices. He has more than 20 years of experience as software engineer and tech lead working at companies of various sizes ranging from startups to enterprise companies like Lufthansa.

Currently he works with Financial Services and Insurance customers of AWS supporting their digital transformation. He loves to enable teams to work with more autonomy and freedom on the cloud.

Please note:

At the event, photos and videos will be taken for marketing purposes both by our hosts and our location sponsors.

We try to offer a hybrid experience by providing a video stream of the talk. There will be no recording published after the event. Please also keep in mind, that we try our best effort to provide a good streaming experience. We don't offer a professional stream, so delays, technical issues or other interference are a matter to be tolerated.

Designing Sovereignty on AWS: From KMS to ESC (11/26)

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