re:Invent 2026 — the four days
Monday 30 November to Thursday 3 December, from a mid-Strip hotel. Built for a large EC2 estate: fleet and capacity, EBS and snapshots, observability and log analytics, FinOps, and where agents genuinely help with any of it. Build your own plan → · all 2,177 sessions →
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Monday
2026-11-30 · EC2 fleet dayAnchored at MGM Grand — about 35 minutes from the middle of the Strip.
No morning keynote — the only full day of the four, which is why it runs from 8:30am. Monday Night Live is an evening slot; confirm it on the official agenda.
10:30am
COP324-R — AI-Powered FinOps: Cloud Cost Optimization in Practice
The FinOps workshop, and the only one that fits before the MGM run.
1:00pm
CMP328-R — Deploy AI agent sandboxes on EC2
Agent sandboxes on EC2 — the agentic angle on your own estate.
2:00pm
CMP409-R — Getting the capacity you need: EC2 Launch APIs and Intelligent Auto Scaling deep dive
Launch APIs and capacity: the mechanics behind a large fleet.
3:30pm
STG357-R — Accelerate database protection and testing with EBS Snapshots and clones
EBS snapshots for protection and testing.
5:30pm
CMP203 — EC2 instances from launch to fleet orchestration
Launch to fleet orchestration. The closest thing here to your day job.
Tuesday
2026-12-01 · Agentic ops, walkableAnchored at Caesars Forum — about 6 minutes from the middle of the Strip.
8:00am – 10:30am keynote — no reservation, and worth arriving early. Held from the catalogue's own data, which contains no keynote records at all — there are no KEY session codes among the 2,177. Treat the window as the usual shape and confirm it on the official agenda.
12:30pm
OPN401-R — Powertools for agent DevOps: Debug reasoning, not just exceptions
Powertools for agent DevOps.
2:00pm
COP319-R — Observe AI agents beyond your perimeter
Observing agents past the perimeter.
5:00pm
CON401-R — Accelerate platform engineering on Amazon EKS
Kiro and Q Developer for platform engineering, at level 400. Two hours, and the only Kiro session on the plan — it replaced a Lambda cost talk and a multicloud VM talk, which were the two weakest picks against an EC2 estate.
Wednesday
2026-12-02 · Price-performance and FinOpsAnchored at MGM Grand — about 35 minutes from the middle of the Strip.
8:30am – 10:30am keynote — no reservation, and worth arriving early. Held from the catalogue's own data, which contains no keynote records at all — there are no KEY session codes among the 2,177. Treat the window as the usual shape and confirm it on the official agenda.
11:30am
CMP343-R — Bringing better Amazon EC2 price performance to your pipeline with AWS Graviton
EC2 price performance.
1:00pm
CMP336-R — Maximize EKS efficiency: Auto Mode, Graviton, and Spot best practices
Auto Mode, Graviton and Spot together.
4:00pm
COP310-R1 — Automate threat detection and response across your logs
Threat detection and response, automated.
5:30pm
COP329-R1 — Automate savings with AWS Billing and Cost Management services
Automating savings in Billing and Cost Management.
Thursday
2026-12-03 · EBS and capacityAnchored at MGM Grand — about 35 minutes from the middle of the Strip.
8:30am – 10:30am keynote — no reservation, and worth arriving early. Held from the catalogue's own data, which contains no keynote records at all — there are no KEY session codes among the 2,177. Treat the window as the usual shape and confirm it on the official agenda.
11:30am
IND3348 — AI-Enabled SRE: Empowering Incident Commanders at Riot Games
Bedrock and Kiro on a real incident-command workflow, built on AgentCore. Open seating, six minutes from the hotel, and it is the closest thing here to AI applied to your own on-call.
2:00pm
CMP320 — Select and launch the right EC2 instance for your workload and budget
Choosing the right instance, deliberately.
5:30pm
STG408 — Deploying mission-critical applications with Amazon EBS
Mission-critical on EBS, and the latest finish of the four days.
What to click first
13 of the picks above need a reservation; 2 are open seating and cannot be reserved at all. Order by how fast the room fills, which is seat count.
| Format | Typical seats | Reservation |
|---|---|---|
| Builders' session | 50 | reserve |
| Code talk | 80 | reserve |
| Chalk talk | 78 | reserve |
| Workshop | 112 | reserve |
| Lightning talk | 50 | walk up |
| Breakout session | 140 | walk up |
Which formats can be reserved is read from the catalogue's own scheduleAccess field, not from last year's habits. Across all 2,177 sessions it splits perfectly by format — every session of a type is either gated or open, with no mixed cases. The registration site is still the authority on its own rules: if it offers a Reserve button on a breakout, believe it over this page.
Backups
A 50-seat builders' session goes in seconds. These are the replacements, already checked against the same interests.
12:30pm
COM324-R1 — Pit Crew AI: Building Multi-Agent Cloud Operations on AWS
Bedrock with CloudWatch and EventBridge for multi-agent cloud operations — the single closest match to the whole profile. Only off the plan because it clashes with Thursday morning; take it over anything if a slot frees.
1:00pm
DVT307 — Beyond code generation: accelerating the entire SDLC on AWS
Kiro across the whole SDLC rather than just code generation. Open seating at Caesars Forum.
3:30pm
COP305-R1 — Turn security logs into actionable intelligence
Security logs into actionable intelligence — your CloudTrail and Security Hub work, almost by name.
5:00pm
COP315-R1 — Automate patching and compliance with AI-powered visibility
Patching and compliance, automated with agents.
1:00pm
STG328-R — Optimize performance and cost of Amazon EBS at massive scale
EBS performance and cost. Swap for the Spot talk if EBS wins.
5:00pm
SEC428 — Fix a Security Hub finding once with four layers of controls
One Security Hub finding, fixed four ways.
11:30am
COP407 — Build-time context for faster agentic incident response
Build-time context for agentic incident response.
Catalogue captured 2026-10-06. This page is rebuilt from it, so a session that moves moves here too.