AWS UG Hamburg September: Keys, Sovereignty and Cloud Security

Dear AWS users,
our September event will happen soon!
Thanks to Deloitte for providing us the space, drinks and food for this AWS User Group Meetup.
IMPORTANT: You can only enter the building until 7 p.m. if you provide your real name

Agenda & Talks:

• 18:00 Warm-up
• 18:30 - 19:00 When KMS Isn't Enough: Lessons from Building Key Management on AWS using CloudHSM by Roberto Tanzi
• 19:00 - 19:15 Break
• 19:15 - 19:45 Designing Sovereignty on AWS: From KMS to European Sovereign Cloud by Oliver Steenbuck, AWS Solutions Architect Insurance
• 20:00 - 21:00 Wrap up & Networking

When KMS Isn't Enough: Lessons from Building Key Management on AWS using CloudHSM
Organizations operating in highly-regulated environments often require cryptographic controls that go beyond standard AWS KMS deployments. In this session, we will share the journey of implementing an AWS KMS solution backed by AWS CloudHSM for regulated financial institutions.

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
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