It’s that time of year again — AWS re:Invent is here! At re:Invent, bold ideas come to life. Get a front-row seat to hear inspiring stories from AWS experts, customers, and leaders as they explore today’s most impactful topics, from data analytics to AI.
For all the data enthusiasts and professionals, we’ve curated a comprehensive guide to every analytics session to help you plan your perfect agenda. Make sure to secure your seat early for must-attend sessions via the attendee portal.
Pro tip: Even if a session shows as fully reserved, we encourage you to join the walk-up line at the session location. Based on previous years’ experiences, additional seats often become available due to no-shows or last-minute schedule changes. The walk-up line operates on a first-come, first-served basis, and many attendees have successfully accessed their desired sessions this way. Just be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes before the session starts for the best chance of getting a seat.
Can’t make it in person? No problem — grab a free virtual pass to stream live sessions from anywhere.
And don’t forget to stop by the AWS Kiosk in the AWS Village Expo for AWS Analytics, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon OpenSearch Service and AWS Messaging and Streaming services! See live demos of analytics services, meet AWS experts, get your toughest data questions answered, explore the latest launches, join our data trivia, and even win exclusive AWS-authored books and many more swags.
Data Innovation Talk
INV201 | Harnessing analytics for humans and AI
Emerging trends, ranging from Open Table Formats (OTF) to agentic infrastructure, are rapidly changing how humans and applications interact with analytics to drive mission-critical business decisions. Join Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of AWS Technology, to explore emerging trends, the evolution of analytics engines and applications, and how to future-proof your data foundation for the rapidly changing landscape of analytics at scale. Learn how AWS is transforming data and analytics services to lead in optimized data storage, querying, streaming, processing, and governance – for both human users and agentic infrastructure.
Breakouts
Dive into cutting-edge topics with re:Invent breakout sessions. These immersive, hour-long lectures are led by AWS experts, customers, offering you unparalleled insights and knowledge in a concise format. Whether you’re exploring the latest in cloud technology, AWS Analytics advancements, or industry-specific solutions, these sessions are designed to expand your horizon and inspire your next big idea.
| Monday, Dec 1 | Tuesday, Dec 2 | Wednesday, Dec 3 | Thursday, Dec 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3106ANT203 | Enabling AI innovation with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Turquoise TheaterBIZ207 | Democratize access to insights with Amazon Quick Suite | 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 123ANT204 | Architecting the future: Amazon SageMaker as a data and AI platform | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT317 | Modernize your data warehouse by moving to Amazon Redshift |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 366ANT318 | Scaling Amazon Redshift with a multi-warehouse architecture | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT216 | What’s new with Amazon SageMaker in the era of unified data and AI | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Turquoise TheaterANT335 | Agentic data engineering with AWS Analytics MCP Servers | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 7ANT328 | Data Processing architectures for building AI solutions |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Mint Green TheaterANT307 | Operating Apache Kafka and Apache Flink at scale | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 364BIZ203 | Amazon’s journey deploying Quick Suite across thousands of users | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | BollingerANT304 | Build an AI-ready data foundation | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 122BIZ227 | Generate new revenue streams with Amazon Quick Sight embedded |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | BollingerBIZ331 | Build robust data foundations to power enterprise AI and BI | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Mint Green TheaterANT206 | What’s new in Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Turquoise TheaterANT424 | Autonomous agents powered by streaming data and Retrieval Augmented Generation | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Turquoise TheaterANT343 | Best practices for building Apache Iceberg based lakehouse architectures on AWS |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT209 | Universal data connectivity with ETL and SQL queries | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Turquoise TheaterANT308 | Explore what’s new in data and AI governance with SageMaker Catalog | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT310 | Powering your Agentic AI experience with AWS Streaming and Messaging | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas EANT344 | Build, govern, and share Amazon Quick Suite dashboards with Amazon SageMaker |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 116ANT314 | Build Advanced Search with Vector, Hybrid, and AI Techniques | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Mint Green TheaterANT305 | Innovations in AWS analytics: Data processing | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT315 | Intelligent Observability and Modernization with Amazon OpenSearch Service | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Orange TheaterDAT445 | Deep dive into databases zero-ETL integrations |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 360ANT336 | Enterprise-scale ETL optimization for Apache Spark | . | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 122ANT309 | Accelerate analytics and AI with an open and secure lakehouse architecture | . |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Orange TheaterANT339 | Turn unstructured data in Amazon S3 into AI-ready assets with SageMaker Catalog | . | . | . |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink TheaterANT201 | What’s new in search, observability, and vector databases with OpenSearch | . | . | . |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Orange TheaterBIZ228 | Reimagine business intelligence with Amazon Quick Sight | . | . | . |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas EOPN413 | Transforming Apache Kafka into a Scalable Message Queue | . | . | . |
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas FANT423 | Amazon Kinesis Data Streams under the hood | . | . | . |
Chalk talks
These hour-long, highly engaging sessions offer a unique blend of expert insight and collaborative learning. An AWS specialist kicks off with a concise, informative lecture, setting the stage for an in-depth, interactive Q&A. With a limited audience size, you’ll have the opportunity to dive deep into topics, ask pressing questions, and engage in meaningful discussions with both the presenter and fellow attendees.
| Monday, Dec 1 | Tuesday, Dec 2 | Wednesday, Dec 3 | Thursday, Dec 4 | Friday, Dec 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 167ANT301-R1 | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Academy 411ANT302-R1 | Accelerate GenAI-powered data discovery and sharing with SageMaker Catalog | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353ANT301-R | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353ANT207 | Develop with natural language and agentic AI in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 221ANT331 | Optimize Cost and Performance in Amazon OpenSearch Service |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Reef CANT347 | Build a secure and regulated data foundation for AI | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas AANT311 | Build data pipelines in minutes with the Amazon SageMaker Visual experience | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas HANT319-R1 | Optimizing Apache Spark workloads with AWS Analytics | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas AANT346 | Architectural blueprints for your lakehouse in Amazon SageMaker | . |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas AANT420-R | AI-driven scaling in Amazon Redshift Serverless | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 305ANT301-R2 | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 158ANT321 | Top 10 tips to improve query performance in Amazon Redshift | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 101ANT303 | Implement data pipelines for analytics using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | . |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 5ANT302-R | Accelerate GenAI-powered data discovery and sharing with SageMaker Catalog | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Lagoon GANT330-R | Design and build Intelligent Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | La Tache 2ANT320 | Strengthening security for Apache Spark workloads | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas JANT322 | Architectural patterns for real-time data analytics on AWS | . |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas AANT338 | Bring unified analytics to your data warehouse with the lakehouse architecture | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 320ANT325-R1 | A deep dive into AI/ML development in SageMaker Unified Studio | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas CANT332 | Building high-quality data products for AI Agents | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 101ANT337 | Breaking data silos with the lakehouse architecture | . |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Montrachet 1BIZ323 | Design AI-powered BI architectures for modern enterprises with Amazon Quick Suite | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Lagoon GANT420-R1 | AI-driven scaling in Amazon Redshift Serverless | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas CANT340 | Deep dive into data processing in SageMaker Unified Studio | . | . |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353ANT325-R | A deep dive into AI/ML development in SageMaker Unified Studio | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | South Pacific BANT341 | Build trust in AI with end-to-end data lineage in Amazon SageMaker Catalog | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 356ANT345 | Building secure and scalable lakehouses for the future | . | . |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas AANT329 | Build Advanced AI-powered Search with OpenSearch MCP and Vectors | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas CBIZ327 | Bridge data silos to unlock complete insights with Amazon Quick Suite | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas JANT413 | Upgrade Amazon DataZone to Amazon SageMaker Catalog for analytics and AI | . | . |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 320BIZ319 | Beyond chatbots: Discover conversational AI in Amazon Quick Suite | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 5ANT421 | Advanced Stream Processing with Apache Flink | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 350ANT324 | Building Pipelines for Analytics, ML and AI in Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio | . | . |
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 356ANT422 | Building Resilient Multi-Tenant Messaging with Amazon SQS | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Reef CANT319-R | Optimizing Apache Spark workloads with AWS Analytics | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas CANT323 | Mastering materialized views: tips for fast, low-latency queries in Redshift | . | . |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 305ANT330-R1 | Design and build Intelligent Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 350ANT326 | Mastering data transformations with Amazon Athena | |||
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 167ANT316 | Orchestrating with Apache Airflow, MWAA, and SageMaker Unified Studio |
Builders’ sessions
Immerse yourself in our builders’ sessions – a hands-on learning experience designed to elevate your AWS skills. These focused, hour-long workshops bring together a small group of up to ten attendees with a dedicated AWS expert at each table.
| Monday, Dec 1 | Tuesday, Dec 2 | Wednesday, Dec 3 | Thursday, Dec 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7ANT407-R1 | Building event-driven applications with AWS Streaming and Messaging | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104ANT415 | Securely monetize your data with Amazon Redshift | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander HANT407-R | Building event-driven applications with AWS Streaming and Messaging | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Builders’ Session 1ANT409 | Getting hands on with zero-ETL and data federation |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104ANT410-R | Integrate and orchestrate data workflows with AWS Glue & MWAA | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 304ANT405-R1 | Build high performance Apache Iceberg data lakes with Amazon S3 Tables | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7ANT406-R | Build trust in your data with Amazon SageMaker Catalog | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander HANT419-R | Vector search with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7ANT406-R1 | Build trust in your data with Amazon SageMaker Catalog | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Builders’ Session 2ANT410-R1 | Integrate and orchestrate data workflows with AWS Glue & MWAA | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 304ANT419-R1 | Vector search with Amazon OpenSearch Service | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 315OPN407-R1 | Performance tuning for streaming Ingestion into Apache Iceberg |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104ANT408 | Data analytics for financial organizations with Amazon SageMaker | . | . | . |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 311OPN407-R | Performance tuning for streaming Ingestion into Apache Iceberg | . | . | . |
| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander HANT405-R | Build high performance Apache Iceberg data lakes with Amazon S3 Tables | . | . | . |
Workshops
Roll your sleeves in our dynamic 2-hour workshops, where you’ll tackle real-world challenges using AWS services. These interactive sessions kick off with a brief, informative lecture to set the stage, then quickly transition into hands-on problem-solving. Bring your laptop and prepare to build alongside AWS experts, who will guide you through practical applications of cloud computing concepts. Whether you’re new to AWS or looking to sharpen your skills, these workshops offer a unique opportunity to learn by doing, enabling you to leave with confidence and applicable knowledge in AWS technologies.
| Monday, Dec 1 | Tuesday, Dec 2 | Wednesday, Dec 3 | Thursday, Dec 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander CANT402-R1 | Build a fraud detection system with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317ANT418 | Unleash Apache Kafka’s elasticity and cost-efficiency with Amazon MSK | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander CANT402-R | Build a fraud detection system with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317ANT412 | Power streaming analytics on AWS with AI-driven insights |
| 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom HANT403 | Building Production-Ready Data Systems for AI Applications | 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 368ANT404-R1 | Build modern data applications with the lakehouse architecture on AWS | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 308BIZ204-R1 | Experience AI-powered BI with Amazon Quick Suite | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander CANT416 | Solve complex data and AI governance challenges with Amazon SageMaker Catalog |
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 3BIZ306 | Create agentic AI chat experiences with Amazon Quick Suite | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom KANT411 | Low-cost logging and observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service | 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 113ANT404-R | Build modern data applications with the lakehouse architecture on AWS | . |
| 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317ANT417 | Simplifying data interoperability with the lakehouse architecture on AWS | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 1BIZ204-R | Experience AI-powered BI with Amazon Quick Suite | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander CANT401 | Build an AI-powered enterprise search with Amazon OpenSearch service | . |
| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom KANT414 | Scale intelligent analytics with Amazon Redshift multi-cluster architectures | . | . | . |
Lightning Talks
Located in the Expo Hall, each of these 20-minute theater presentations are dedicated to a specific customer story, service demo, or AWS Partner offering.
| Monday, Dec 1 | Tuesday, Dec 2 | Wednesday, Dec 3 | Thursday, Dec 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 4ANT334 | High-performance NLP & geospatial analysis with Redshift | . | 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Lightning TheaterANT333 | Fast-track to insights: AWS-SAP data strategy | 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 3ANT342 | ITTI’s Cross-Company Data Mesh Blueprint with Amazon SageMaker |
| 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 3ANT348 | Seamless data sharing in Amazon Redshift | . | . | . |
Conclusion
We hope this post acts as your go-to resource for navigating the AWS analytics track at re:Invent 2025. For staying in the know about the most recent trends and advancements in AWS Analytics, follow our LinkedIn page.
About the authors
Navnit Shukla
Navnit serves as an AWS Specialist Solutions Architect with a focus on Data and AI. He possesses a strong enthusiasm for assisting clients in discovering valuable insights from their data. Through his expertise, he constructs innovative solutions that empower businesses to arrive at informed, data-driven choices. Notably, he is the author of Data Wrangling on AWS and co-author of AI-Ready Data Blueprints with O’Reilly.
Sonu Kumar Singh
Sonu is a Senior Solutions Architect with over 13 years of experience, with a specialization in Analytics and Healthcare domain. He has been instrumental in catalyzing transformative shifts in organizations by enabling data-driven decision-making thereby fueling innovation and growth. He enjoys it when something he designed or created brings a positive impact.
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