Infrastructure Topology: Sovereign AI Governance

This document describes the deployment architecture for ABS Core™ in high-integrity, non-SaaS environments.

Deployment Models

1. Air-Gapped High-Security (Vault)

Used by government agencies and defense contractors.

• Runtime: Bare-metal or isolated K8s cluster with zero external egress.
• Policy Sync: Physical media or internal trusted mirrors.
• Audit: Local forensic ledger with asynchronous physical anchoring to a public witness (Bitcoin/L2) via one-way hardware diodes.

2. Private Enterprise Edge

Deployed within corporate VPCs.

• Runtime: Customer-managed VPC (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Control Plane: Sovereign instance of ABS Governance Portal.
• Audit: Cryptographically anchored to the customer's private blockchain or a low-latency L2.

Consensus & Integrity Layer

ABS Core™ utilizes a Deterministic Witness Protocol.

• Kernel: WASM bytecode with a constant-time execution guarantee.
• Attestation: Every governance decision generates a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) report, usually Intel SGX or AWS Nitro Enclave.

Data Residency

• Zero-Service Architecture: No data ever leaves the customer perimeter.
• Telemetry: Opt-in structured logs only.
• Keys: Managed via customer-owned HSM (Hardware Security Module).