Architecting for Trust: Resilience & Sovereignty on AWS
#3 Containers and AWS Meetup 2026
Join us for an evening focused on building trusted cloud architectures, featuring a hands-on resilience workshop, expert talks from AWS and copebit, and time to connect with the community. We'll explore how organisations can design cloud systems that are resilient, reliable, and sovereign: from implementing resilience patterns on AWS, to running Claude Code in the enterprise, to understanding the difference between resilience and sovereignty in modern cloud architectures. You can join just the workshop, just the talks, or even better, both.
When and where
📅 November 3, 2026
📍 Bluelion Startup Hub, Josefstrasse 219, 8005 Zürich
👉 Register now: https://copeb.it/3SC74W
Agenda
15:45 Arrival for the hands-on lab
16:00 Hands-on lab: AI Agents on Amazon EKS
17:30 Apéro and networking break
17:45 Arrival for the meetup
18:00 Welcome and introduction, Tobias Vonesch, copebit AG
18:05 Talk 1: The Augmented Engineer: From Idea to Production with Claude, Sebastian Hutter
18:40 Talk 2: Isolated Compute for Humans and Agents: Lambda MicroVMs, Benny Gaechter and Marcel Neidinger
19:05 Talk 3: Finding the Right Compute for Fortran in the Cloud, Jan van Thoor
19:45 Pizza, beer and networking
20:30 End
Hands-on lab
Configure AWS Karpenter on EKS, following the AWS Workshop Studio lab. Bring a laptop.
Talks
Design Resilient Workloads on AWS (Michael Schmid)
To deal with unexpected events, you have to design your workloads to be resilient. To address this, AWS has developed the Resilience Lifecylce Framework. In this session we will review Resilient Software Design Patterns for building resilient applications, such as graceful degradation, static stability, exponential backoff, and circuit breakers.
Enterprise Claude Code, Built Natively on AWS (Roman Frei)
Engineers want to use AI coding tools like Claude Code, but enterprises often can't approve them: data residency, auditability, and governance requirements get in the way. We solved that by building a private backend that guarantees inference stays inside the EU, with full audit trails and governance built in, and without losing connectivity to the tools and services engineers already depend on. This talk shows how we did it entirely with native AWS services, and what it took to get compliance to say yes.
Digital Sovereignty - Facts beyond the hype (Daniel Caduff)
Digital sovereignty is often debated in abstract terms. This talk breaks it into concrete requirements: data residency and locality, data protection and privacy, control over operator and lawful access, operational resilience, and freedom of choice. It shows how AWS covers each one with technical, operational and contractual measures.
Speakers
Michael Schmid - Senior Partner Solution Architect @ AWS
Daniel Caduff - Principal Security Assurance DACH @ AWS
Roman Frei - Product Owner @ copebit AG