Bottom line: AWS European Sovereign Cloud now supports running open weight models for AI workloads in EU data centers.
What's happening: AWS has launched Amazon Bedrock, a service that enables European organizations to run AI workloads on open weight models in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a fully managed, PCI-DSS compliant cloud environment. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is available in multiple EU regions, including Frankfurt and London. This launch supports the European Union's data protection and AI regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
What to do: Security leaders should monitor the AWS website for updates on Amazon Bedrock and ensure their AI workloads are compliant with EU regulations, including GDPR. Additionally, they should review AWS's data center security and compliance documentation to ensure alignment with their own security controls.