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AWS re:Invent returns to Las Vegas for cloud and AI’s biggest week from November 30–December 4, 2026. This year we have over 2,200 sessions, 70 percent of which are interactive, led by experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers, and our partners.

With that much to choose from, we’ve pulled together the sessions built around Digital Sovereignty at AWS. Whether you’re navigating evolving data residency requirements, choosing the right home for your most sensitive workloads, or scaling AI in environments where your data can’t leave the jurisdiction, there’s something for you at re:Invent.

In this guide, you’ll find breakout sessions, chalk talks, workshops, and a lightning talk covering a range of digital sovereignty topics, grouped by theme so you can easily find what matters most to you. Reserve your seat through your attendee portal, or walk up based on availability. If a session is full, check the catalog for another time, since several of these sessions run more than once.

Pro tip: Sessions are spread across several venues, so allow extra time to get between them. All times are Pacific.

In 2026, we launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, giving customers another option to help meet their most stringent digital sovereignty requirements. As part of its design, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud operates with no critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure, and is backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections. In these sessions, get the full picture of the AWS approach to digital sovereignty, including verifiable controls, operational autonomy, and greater choice with infrastructure options like the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

SEC206 | Breakout session | Digital sovereignty: Verifiable controls and greater choice
Speakers: Mustafa Isik, Chief Technologist Sovereignty, AWS; Stephane Israel, Managing Director European Sovereign Cloud and Digital Sovereignty, AWS
When and where: Thursday, December 3, 1:00 PM | Wynn/Encore
Evolving regulations and geopolitical shifts are prompting organizations to rethink how they protect data and maintain control in the cloud, without slowing innovation and AI adoption. This session explores how AWS helps customers meet their digital sovereignty requirements with the full power of the cloud through a range of offerings, including the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, backed by verifiable and auditable controls. Learn what AI sovereignty means in practice, get answers to the most common questions, and hear how AWS and partners are helping organizations navigate complexity in a fast-changing landscape.

SEC234 | Lightning talk | EU operational autonomy in action: AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Speakers: Zoltan Albrecht, Director, AWS European Sovereign Cloud Managed Operations, AWS
When and where: Thursday, December 3, 8:30 AM | Wynn/Encore
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is built on fully isolated infrastructure within the EU, operated exclusively by EU-resident staff, with no access from outside Europe. In this lightning talk, learn from the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Managed Operations team what independent operations means in practice and how it works day to day.

Moving AI from pilots to production means making clear decisions about where your data and AI workloads run to meet your digital sovereignty needs. These sessions show how to bring AI infrastructure to your data, from fully managed AWS AI Factories in your data center, to the right hybrid deployment for each workload, to agentic AI applications that extend to hybrid and edge environments such as AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones.

AIM206 | Breakout session | AWS AI Factories: Bring production scale AI to your data center
Speakers: Pranav Chachra, Senior Manager, Product Management, AWS; Gareth Tucker, Global Specialist – AWS AI Factories, AWS; Daniel Xu, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
When and where: Thursday, December 3, 10:30 AM | Venetian
Data sovereignty, data gravity, and latency requirements prevent many organizations from running all AI workloads in the public cloud. AWS AI Factories bring AWS and NVIDIA AI infrastructure directly into your data center, fully operated, maintained, and continuously updated by AWS. Run leading foundation models on premises for training and inference without building and managing AI infrastructure yourself or negotiating separate agreements with model providers. In this session, learn how organizations are accelerating AI adoption, reducing time to value, and maintaining full control of their data while benefiting from the AWS experience in their own facilities.

HMC303 | Breakout session | Choosing the right hybrid deployment for your AI workloads
Speakers: Shivam Saggar, Sr. Product Manager (Tech), AWS; Chris McEvilly, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS; Shelby Seward, DMTS, Sr. Director, T-Mobile; Hai Lu, Senior Engineering Manager, Databricks, Inc.
When and where: Monday, November 30, 9:00 AM | MGM Grand
Organizations are running AI workloads for model training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning and inference, across an expanding set of environments, including AWS Regions, AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS AI Factories. The right deployment option depends on latency, data sovereignty, compute density, and scale. See how customers deploy accelerated AI across the hybrid spectrum: NVIDIA GPU-based and AWS Trainium-powered instances in Local Zones, purpose-built AWS AI Factories for large-scale training and model serving, and edge deployments for real-time inference. Hear how customers navigate these decisions, including Databricks tapping GPU capacity on AWS Local Zones and T-Mobile running latency-sensitive distributed inference, and learn which environment fits each AI workload without compromising performance and compliance.

HMC402 | Workshop | Implementing agentic AI solutions on-premises and at the edge
Speakers: Kyle Palasti, Edge Specialist Solutions Architect, National Security, AWS; Fernando Galves, Senior Applied AI Architect, AWS
When and where: Wednesday, December 2, 3:30 PM | Wynn/Encore
Repeat: Thursday, December 3, 3:00 PM | Caesars Palace
Learn how to extend Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to hybrid and edge services to build distributed agentic apps using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) communication with on-premises data. Get hands-on with hybrid agentic AI using Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents while exploring AWS hybrid and edge solutions for data residency compliance.

HMC403 | Workshop | Self-managed agentic AI at the hybrid edge
Speakers: Fernando Galves, Senior Applied AI Architect, AWS; Chris McEvilly, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
When and where: Tuesday, December 1, 12:30 PM | MGM Grand
Repeat: Thursday, December 3, 8:30 AM | MGM Grand
As organizations use agentic AI to automate complex infrastructure operations, many have data residency, low latency, and security requirements that depend on running AI closer to their data. This workshop explores how customers deploy self-managed agentic AI at the hybrid edge to meet these requirements while enabling autonomous operations. Learn how to architect, provision, configure, and optimize AI agents that run locally, and how to extend the same architecture to AWS hybrid and edge infrastructure such as AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts.

Digital sovereignty requirements vary, and AWS offers control and choice across a range of deployment options. Whether you’re comparing AWS Dedicated Local Zones, AWS Outposts, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and AWS Regions, or planning a migration, you’ll find the infrastructure options to meet your unique digital sovereignty needs. These sessions help you learn more and choose with confidence.

HMC314 | Chalk talk | Architecting for digital sovereignty with AWS Hybrid Cloud solutions
Speakers: Sherry Lin, Principal Product Manager, AWS; Lakshmi VP, Solutions Architect – WWPS, AWS
When and where: Wednesday, December 2, 8:30 AM | MGM Grand
This session uses real-world case studies to understand how AWS hybrid cloud architectures such as AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS Outposts help customers meet their digital sovereignty needs. It examines data residency boundaries, network separation, operational controls, and security guardrail options available in hybrid cloud solutions. It then shows how to configure governance controls, including Service Control Policies (SCPs), to help customers comply with regulatory requirements. Finally, it covers how to detect and prevent unauthorized data flows between hybrid infrastructure and the parent Region.

HMC202 | Breakout session | AWS wherever you need it: From the cloud to the edge
Speakers: Spencer Dillard, Director, Software Dev, EC2, AWS; Ian Cottingham, Director, Software Development, AWS; Rama Raghavan, AVP Cloud Architecture, AT&T Inc.
When and where: Wednesday, December 2, 3:00 PM | Caesars Palace
While most workloads can run in the cloud, some remain on-premises or at the edge due to low latency, local data processing, or data residency needs. AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS AI Factories extend AWS services, APIs, and tools to metro areas, on-premises data centers, and the far edge. Explore how these infrastructure offerings power a broad range of hybrid cloud and edge computing use cases such as financial trading, manufacturing, and AI. Learn how AWS helps you run regulated workloads with edge requirements, power generative AI with edge data, and migrate workloads with on-premises dependencies, featuring AT&T’s migration and modernization at scale.

HMC304 | Breakout session | Real-world migrations: Lessons learned migrating to AWS Outposts
Speakers: Frankie Negro, Senior Hybrid Edge Solutions Architect, AWS; Scott Rose, Senior Manager Solution Architecture – Telco, AWS; Marcelo Andrade, Cloud Engineer, SERPRO
When and where: Monday, November 30, 10:00 AM | MGM Grand
Organizations with data residency and digital sovereignty requirements face a critical question: how do you move workloads from on-premises infrastructure to AWS Outposts without disrupting compliance posture or operations? This Level 300 session distills lessons from migrating customers to Outposts across industries, organization sizes, and migration strategies, featuring SERPRO, Brazil’s federal data processing company, and AT&T, migrating telecom workloads at scale. The session walks through the processes that delivered results, the quantifiable outcomes measured, and the critical mistakes to avoid. Learn how to select the right migration approach and navigate common blockers. The session also covers transitioning from first-generation to second-generation Outposts hardware.

Digital sovereignty goes beyond where your data lives. It also shapes how you operate, recover, and connect your workloads. These sessions help you learn about the operational side of digital sovereignty: recovering from failures under regulatory requirements, designing for resilience alongside data residency, and strategies for connecting across global AWS Regions, GovCloud, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and China Regions.

ARC405 | Breakout session | Your regulator set your RTO. Not your architecture.
Speakers: Hossam Ebrahim, Solutions Architect, AWS; Paul Armstrong, Lead Architect UKI, AWS
When and where: Tuesday, December 1, 4:00 PM | Wynn/Encore
Organizations with pre-approved failover regions recover in hours. Those without recover in weeks. Same impairment. Same services. One governance decision separates them, and it’s made years before the event. This session presents architectural patterns for multi-Region recovery under sovereignty constraints, drawn from real operational experience with regulated workloads under regional pressure. Three categories: decisions that set your resilience ceiling before any event, dependencies that create circular failure during recovery, and assets nobody backs up until they become the critical path. You leave with the decisions to evaluate before your next DR test.

ARC318 | Chalk talk | Architecting for resilience and data residency
Speakers: Andy Orlosky, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS; Mike Haken, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, AWS; Jamie Pasterick, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
When and where: Monday, November 30, 2:30 PM | Wynn/Encore
Repeat: Wednesday, December 2, 1:30 PM | Wynn/Encore
Your data can’t leave the jurisdiction, but your workload still has to survive a Region degradation. This chalk talk explores architecture patterns that address both resilience and data residency together. We break the challenge into practical layers: where data lives, how workloads recover, what isolation looks like, and how to maintain business continuity across geographic boundaries. We map each layer to AWS capabilities including Dedicated Local Zones, Outposts, and policy controls, then work through real scenarios together. Bring your architecture challenges and we will whiteboard design patterns and tradeoffs with you.

NET327 | Breakout session | Connectivity strategies across AWS Partitions
Speakers: Kunal Sharma, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS; Rohit Aswani, Principal Solutions Architect – Networking Specialist, AWS
When and where: Wednesday, December 2, 4:00 PM | MGM Grand
Organizations increasingly operate across AWS commercial, GovCloud, Sovereign Cloud, and China Regions to satisfy regulatory, data residency, and national security requirements. But connecting them introduces networking challenges that go well beyond standard multi-Region design. In this session, learn cross-partition connectivity patterns using AWS Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, and application-layer proxies alongside DNS resolution strategies, compliance boundary enforcement, and operational trade-offs. We walk through architectural blueprints for securely linking partitions while preserving the isolation guarantees they exist to enforce, and share lessons learned from customers navigating ITAR, GDPR, and national sovereignty mandates at scale.

Priorities for digital sovereignty vary by industry, and are shaped by different regulations, risks, and requirements. Learn how organizations in government, energy, and telecommunications are meeting their unique needs with the control, choice, and scale of AWS.

IND361 | Workshop | Build hybrid data planes for government GenAI pipelines
Speakers: Mohamed Salah, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS; Usama Salama, Sr. Specialist SA AI/ML, AWS
When and where: Monday, November 30, 3:30 PM | Wynn/Encore
Strict national security mandates block government agencies from adopting cloud GenAI. To resolve this, architects deploy a decoupled edge-to-cloud tokenization pattern. In this workshop, use AWS CDK to build a three-phase data plane that isolates sensitive citizen data in a simulated edge environment. You will deploy local data tokenization, route masked payloads to Amazon Bedrock for stateless inference, and reconcile state on-premises. Leave with an infrastructure-as-code blueprint to unlock frontier AI and satisfy federal localization mandates.

IND359 | Chalk talk | In-Country HPC: How TGS Processes Seismic Data on AWS Brazil
Speakers: Kun Jiao, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS; Faisal Asif, Global Head, Cloud Transformation and Innovation, TGS
When and where: Monday, November 30, 9:00 AM | Wynn/Encore
Repeat: Tuesday, December 1, 12:00 PM | Wynn/Encore
TGS — one of the world’s largest multi-client geoscience data providers — faced a significant cost challenge running its business-critical Rackmon EFWI GPU workload at scale. By strategically deploying this workload on AWS infrastructure in Brazil, TGS leveraged Brazil’s ReData Special Tax Regime to dramatically reduce the tax burden on GPU-intensive seismic processing. The result: material cost savings on one of the most computationally demanding workloads in the energy industry — and a reusable in-country processing architecture that can serve future customers with data residency requirements in other geographies.

IND322 | Chalk talk | Physical AI in Telecom: A Framework for Workload Placement
Speakers: Young Jung, Sr. Manager of Telco Network SA, AWS; Angelo Sampietro, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS; Umer Chaudhary, Sr. Mgr Network Solutions, AWS
When and where: Tuesday, December 1, 1:30 PM | Caesars Forum
Repeat: Tuesday, December 1, 3:00 PM | Caesars Forum
Some physical AI workloads need sub-millisecond performance at edge cell sites, others are better suited to a full AWS Region, and many fall in between on AWS Local Zones or AWS Outposts. In this chalk talk, we provide a framework for matching each workload to the right option. We trace the physical AI development lifecycle, examining how data sovereignty, latency, data gravity, and token economics interact to shape placement decisions at each phase. Based on real-world use cases, we discuss the options so you leave with a placement framework you can apply immediately.

You can view the full list of digital sovereignty sessions in the re:Invent catalog, including sessions with partners.

Join us in the re:Invent Expo at the Venetian to meet with AWS experts and learn through interactive demos. Stop by these kiosks in the AWS Village:

• Digital Sovereignty: Learn more about Digital Sovereignty at AWS and the choice and control we offer across the cloud and AI. Use the AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens to get extended guidance for designing, building, and operating sovereign workloads on AWS, see how AWS helps your organization innovate with AI while meeting your sovereignty needs, and go deep on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud with AWS experts.
• Hybrid Cloud & Edge Computing: See how to run familiar AWS services, APIs, and tools you use in AWS Regions on premises and at the edge with AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, AWS Outposts, and AWS AI Factories. Bring a workload that needs to stay local, and AWS experts will walk through its architecture with you.
• Global Infrastructure & Sustainability: Explore the scale and reach of the world’s most extensive cloud infrastructure including AWS Regions, Availability Zones, AWS Local Zones, AWS Outposts, and AWS AI Factories. Discover the latest infrastructure innovations and how AWS Sustainability helps you scale workloads globally while minimizing your environmental impact.
• Data Center Experience: See the technology inside AWS data centers firsthand, from custom chips to full server racks, and explore a 3D model of an AWS AI Factory.

Here’s how to prepare for the digital sovereignty sessions:

1. Register for AWS re:Invent 2026. Don’t have a ticket yet? Use the discount code REINVENT26 for $150 off a full conference pass. The code expires on November 23, 2026, and can’t be combined with any other offers or discounts.
2. Reserve your seats where available in the re:Invent portal.
3. Download the AWS Events mobile app to build your schedule.
4. Join the conversation on social media using #reInvent.

Note: Session schedule and availability are subject to change. Check the AWS re:Invent Session Catalog for the most up-to-date information.

Stay connected: Join the #reInvent conversation on social media and connect with other attendees!

See you in Las Vegas!