Blueprinting Sovereign AI for Regulated Industries
Case Study

Blueprinting Sovereign AI for Regulated Industries

Architecting air-gapped and hybrid AI environments. How Global 2000 banks are running fine-tuned 70B models without data ever leaving their VPC.

Oct 05, 2025
15 min read
By Principal AI Architect

The Exfiltration Risk

Public APIs are a non-starter for strict regulatory regimes. Data sovereignty demands that inference happens where the data lives.

The Architecture: Private Cloud Inference

We deployed a quantized Llama-3-70B model on a private Kubernetes cluster within the bank's AWS VPC. Using vLLM for high-throughput serving, we achieved <20ms latency.

Auditability & Logging

Every prompt and completion is logged to an immutable ledger (QLDB) for compliance auditing, ensuring full transparency of the model's decision-making process.

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