USE CASE: SOVEREIGN AI
Your controlled, adaptable AI platform. Secure, flexible, and cost-effective where your data lives.
Data governance in an AI world
Pursuing AI initiatives while maintaining compliant, well-governed data is a top priority for enterprise leaders, but it’s a challenge. Bringing sensitive data to cloud-based AI models can undermine data governance — and immature, overly specialized AI components add risk, complexity, and cost to enterprise ecosystems.
Security and control with generative AI
Sovereign AI, powered by EDB Postgres® AI Factory, delivers private GenAI inferencing where your data resides, ensuring complete control over AI operations. By running preferred models alongside existing data in Postgres, it eliminates data movement and enhances security with robust encryption, logging, and auditing. Plus, flexible private deployment options and locally hosted models mean no cloud data access fees and no vendor lock-in.
Private AI environment
Instead of exposing sensitive data to public cloud-based models, bring a wide range of models close to well-governed data in Postgres — enabling vector search and powerful GenAI inference applications with comprehensive observability and audit logging.
Deployment options
Deploy sovereign AI anywhere across private infrastructure — in private data centers, VPC enclosures in the cloud, or hybrid.
Access controls and encryption
Protect business data with features such as role-based access control (RBAC), row-level security (RLS), and transparent data encryption (TDE).
Locally hosted open source models
Open source AI models sit right alongside business data unified in a private Postgres environment, eliminating vendor lock-in and cloud access fees.
Enable cutting-edge AI solutions while maintaining strong data governance and deploy AI strategies with maximum efficiency across private or hybrid environments.
Full control
Build cutting-edge GenAI inference applications while retaining strong data governance practices with all data and models retained in a controlled, highly observable Postgres environment.
Greater flexibility
An intuitive application builder and comprehensive private deployment options offer your business the versatility to pivot AI strategies in response to market, regulatory, or operational changes.
Enhanced data security and compliance
Protect sensitive data while pursuing advanced GenAI functionality, ensuring regulatory compliance and minimizing security risks.
Cost optimization
Reduce TCO by voiding unpredictable cloud access fees and optimizing AI spending with storage formats that provide 18x cost-effectiveness versus standard Postgres — unified in a single data platform built on open source technologies.
EDB Postgres AI enables sovereign AI
Accelerate GenAI inferencing while maintaining control of data in private cloud or on-premises environments—with Model Serving providing well-governed AI models on the organization’s own terms. Streamline GenAI application and agent development with an intuitive application builder and AI Pipelines that automate AI data management, so you can go to market faster with chatbots, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and even multi-agent systems.
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What is sovereign AI?
True data and AI sovereignty means you can access, manage, and control your data, wherever, whenever, and however you want to use it—securely and compliantly, across clouds and your premises. Learn more about data and AI sovereignty.
Sovereign AI, powered by EDB Postgres AI Factory, is a private AI solution that allows businesses to maintain full control over their data and AI operations by bringing AI models to a secure Postgres environment—providing flexible deployment options, enhanced security, and cost efficiency without relying on cloud-based services. Learn more about AI sovereignty.
EDB Postgres AI Factory provides the fastest way to test and launch enterprise GenAI inference applications and agents by combining automated GenAI orchestration with low- and no-code application development interfaces. This enables anyone — even non-technical users — to build and test sovereign AI applications. Businesses can confidently adapt to changing business needs with always-current Knowledge Bases powered by swappable models, set-and-forget AI data pipelines, and robust AI guardrails.
Sovereign AI uses a model-to-data approach, enabling GenAI inference on well-governed data in Postgres without exposing sensitive information to cloud-based models. EDB Postgres AI also comes with robust security features like RBAC and encryption at rest and in transit. This eliminates data movement and ensures compliance with data privacy regulations.
Key features include:
- A private AI environment where AI models run close to well-governed data in Postgres with full observability and audit logging.
- Deployment options across on-prem, private cloud, or hybrid infrastructure to suit your business needs.
- Access controls and encryption features like RBAC, RLS, and TDE.
- Locally hosted open source models that eliminate vendor lock-in and cloud fees.
Yes, EDB Postgres AI's integration with open lakehouse tables in object storage allows for seamless incorporation of data into GenAI applications without requiring multiple databases or performance-degrading data pipelines.
Sovereign AI offers:
- Full control of data for stronger governance
- Greater flexibility to meet shifting market, regulatory, and operational demands
- Enhanced security and compliance for minimized risk
- Cost optimization via 5x cost-efficient formats and eliminating vendor lock-in
While beneficial for many industries, sovereign AI is particularly valuable in sectors like finance, healthcare, and government, where data security and compliance are critical and heavily regulated.
EDB Postgres AI provides a unified sovereign AI platform for storing, managing, and interacting with your data, serving as an ideal AI base layer that won't require future changes. This approach keeps AI simple and under your control. It enables rapid deployment of customizable AI by allowing businesses to swap models with minimal code, instantly adapt to changing business needs, and implement AI across different business units seamlessly.
With full control over deployment and resource management, sovereign AI reduces costs by avoiding cloud data access fees, optimizing storage, and enabling scalable AI solutions — ensuring maximum return on investment.
Yes, sovereign AI addresses the velocity-vigilance tradeoff by enabling rapid AI integration while maintaining secure, stable, and observable data in business operations.