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, delivers private GenAI 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 a wide variety of GenAI 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 functionality while retaining strong data governance practices with all data and models retained in a controlled, highly observable Postgres environment.
Greater flexibility
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 cutting-edge 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 AI innovation while allowing you to maintain control of data in a private environment – ensuring well-governed AI models on the organization’s own terms. Build AI models within existing EDB Postgres ecosystems, even on-premises. EDB’s AI Pipelines extension streamlines AI application development with automated AI data management, so you can build AI applications such as chatbots and recommendation engines faster, with fewer lines of code.
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Bring AI Models to Your Postgres Data
Bring AI Models to Your Postgres Data
See how to enable the ‘aidb’ extension, build multi-model AI solutions, and ensure sovereign AI.
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Sovereign AI FAQs
Sovereign AI, powered by EDB Postgres AI, is a private AI solution that allows businesses to maintain full control over their data and AI operations by bringing GenAI models to a secure Postgres environment — providing flexible deployment options, enhanced security, and cost efficiency without relying on cloud-based services.
Sovereign AI uses a model-to-data approach, enabling you to fine-tune models in well-governed 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 GenAI 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, TDE, and more.
- Locally hosted open source models that eliminate vendor lock-in and cloud fees.
Yes, sovereign AI's flexible lakehouse architecture allows for seamless incorporation of data into AI-driven 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 18x cost-efficient storage 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.
Sovereign AI is a unified 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.