AWS re:Invent 2026: Dates, Venue, Pricing, and the AI Sessions to Watch
November 30 - December 4, 2026
TL;DR: AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026, across six Las Vegas venues (Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Encore, MGM Grand, The Venetian, and Wynn). Registration is already open and requires an...
TL;DR: AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026, across six Las Vegas venues (Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Encore, MGM Grand, The Venetian, and Wynn). Registration is already open and requires an AWS Builder ID: early bird pricing is $1,299 through August 25, 2026, rising to $2,499 at full price. There is no officially named “AI Track” - AWS organizes the event around 2,200+ sessions covering every service line, with Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q, and Nova model announcements running through the week rather than sitting in a separate track. This guide covers what is confirmed, what last year’s keynote suggests is coming, and what I could not verify.
I run AI Events on this site the same way I test AI tools: check the primary source before repeating a number, and say plainly when something is a guess. AWS re:Invent is worth that discipline because it is where Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon’s Nova model line get their biggest updates of the year, and those announcements tend to show up in production roadmaps within months.
Below: the confirmed dates and venues, real registration pricing (not the placeholder numbers floating around older listings), an honest look at whether “AI Track” is even a real thing at this event, and what 2025’s keynote suggests about the AI content coming in December 2026. If you only need the short version: the dates and venue are locked, registration is open with real prices attached, and the “AI Track” framing is this site’s shorthand for a session cluster, not an AWS-branded track.
Key Takeaways
- Dates and venue are confirmed, not projected. AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026, across six Las Vegas properties, per AWS’s own event FAQ page.
- Registration is open now, with real 2026 pricing. Early bird passes run $1,299 through August 25, 2026, jumping to $2,499 at full price. That is a meaningfully different number than the $1,799 to $2,099 range floating around some third-party listings.
- There is no formally named “AI Track.” AWS re:Invent organizes content into 2,200+ sessions across every service category. AI and machine learning content (Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q, the Nova model family, Trainium and Inferentia chips) runs through the entire week rather than living in a single labeled track.
- re:Inforce has folded into re:Invent for 2026. Security content that used to run as a standalone AWS conference now runs all week at re:Invent, with a dedicated security day on Thursday, December 3.
- 2025 set a high bar for AI announcements. Last year’s keynote introduced the Nova 2 model family, Bedrock AgentCore updates, Trainium3 UltraServers, and a new Graviton5 chip, in front of roughly 60,000 in-person attendees. If 2026 follows the same pattern, expect the next generation of those same product lines.
The most useful thing I can tell you about AWS re:Invent 2026 right now is which parts are locked and which parts are this site’s best guess based on last year. Anyone promising you a full AI agenda this far out is filling in blanks AWS has not filled in yet.
What Is AWS re:Invent 2026?
AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ flagship annual conference, and the 2026 edition is described on AWS’s own event page as “the premier cloud and AI conference.” It runs five full days in Las Vegas and covers the entire AWS service catalog: compute, storage, databases, networking, security, and increasingly, generative AI and machine learning. The event includes keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, chalk talks, code talks, bootcamps, and an expo floor with 450+ AWS partners, per the official AWS re:Invent FAQ.
Scale is what separates re:Invent from a typical vendor conference. AWS’s own 2026 marketing states the event expects 60,000+ attendees, matching the actual 2025 turnout, which multiple outlets independently reported at roughly 60,000 in-person attendees, per Stack Overflow’s re:Invent 2025 coverage. AWS also reports that 47% of 2025 attendees were first-timers and 94% of past attendees recommend the event to a colleague, according to the FAQ page.
A structural change for 2026: re:Inforce, AWS’s previously standalone security conference, is now part of re:Invent. Security content runs throughout the week, with Thursday, December 3 set aside as a dedicated day for security practitioners. That is a real scope expansion worth knowing about if you are budgeting time across tracks, not just AI content.
When and Where Is AWS re:Invent 2026?
AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event spans six venues: Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Encore, MGM Grand, The Venetian, and Wynn, according to AWS’s official FAQ page. That matches the existing event listing on this site - this is one of the rare cases in this event-guide series where the previously published date turned out to be correct on first check, so no correction was needed here.
Sessions are spread across all six properties, and AWS’s own FAQ warns attendees to “allow for additional travel time between venues” since content runs concurrently at different hotels. Shuttles run continuously between properties during conference hours, and badge holders can ride the Las Vegas Monorail for free by showing their badge at the entrance.
Quick facts:
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Event | AWS re:Invent 2026 |
| Dates | November 30 - December 4, 2026 |
| Venues | Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Encore, MGM Grand, The Venetian, Wynn (Las Vegas, NV) |
| Format | In-person, with free livestream for keynotes and select sessions |
| Expected attendance | 60,000+ (matches 2025’s actual turnout) |
| Sessions | 2,200+ across every AWS service category |
| Registration | Open now, requires an AWS Builder ID |
| Early bird pricing | $1,299 (through August 25, 2026, 11:59 p.m. PDT) |
| Full price | $2,499 |
| Minimum age | 18 by the day you pick up your badge |
| Official site | reinvent.awsevents.com |
Is There Actually an “AI Track” at AWS re:Invent?
Here is the honest answer, because it matters for how you should read the rest of this guide: AWS does not publish a session catalog with a track literally labeled “AI Track.” Re:Invent organizes its 2,200+ sessions by format (keynotes, breakout sessions, workshops, chalk talks, code talks, bootcamps, gamified learning) and by service category, not by a single AI-specific track name.
What does exist is a heavy, sustained concentration of AI and machine learning content running through the entire week. Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker AI, Amazon Q, the Nova family of foundation models, and the Trainium and Inferentia custom AI chips all get dedicated announcement slots, breakout sessions, and hands-on labs. If you showed up only interested in AI and machine learning, you would have more than enough sessions to fill five days without ever touching a networking or database talk. That is functionally an AI track, even without the label.
Calling it “AWS re:Invent AI Track 2026,” the way this page’s URL does, is this site’s framing for that AI-and-ML session cluster, not a name AWS itself uses in its marketing or event catalog. A reader searching for an “AI Track” agenda page on AWS’s own site will not find one under that name. What you will find, once the event catalog is fully browsable, is a filterable list where AI and ML content is tagged and searchable alongside everything else re:Invent covers.
Who Should Attend AWS re:Invent 2026?
AWS re:Invent serves a wide range of roles, and the AI and ML content specifically pulls in a distinct subset of that audience. You’ll likely get strong value here if you fit one of these profiles:
- AI and ML engineers building on AWS, particularly teams already using Bedrock, SageMaker, or Amazon Q, who want direct access to what is shipping next before it reaches your account team.
- Cloud architects and platform engineers evaluating AWS’s AI infrastructure roadmap, including the Trainium and Graviton chip lines, for multi-year capacity planning.
- Enterprise decision-makers weighing AI infrastructure spend, since re:Invent keynotes routinely double as AWS’s biggest annual sales pitch for its AI stack.
- Security practitioners, now that re:Inforce content runs inside re:Invent, with December 3 set aside specifically for that audience.
Here’s the honest caveat: if your organization runs primarily on Azure or Google Cloud with no AWS footprint, most of the technical depth here will not translate directly, even in the AI sessions. Bedrock-specific agent-building patterns and SageMaker HyperPod training tricks are AWS-native; they will not port cleanly to a different cloud stack.
One planning note worth passing on: teams already committed to attending should register before August 25, 2026. That single date is the difference between $1,299 and $2,499 per seat, and for a team of five, that is a $6,000 swing decided by nothing more than when someone clicks register.
What’s Confirmed About Speakers and the Agenda for 2026
As of this writing, AWS has not published a full speaker lineup or detailed session agenda for the 2026 keynote. The event catalog opened on June 30, 2026, so sessions, labs, and workshops are browsable now and you can start favoriting what interests you, but reserved seating for hands-on content does not open until later this fall, per the official FAQ.
What is reasonable to expect, based on precedent: AWS CEO Matt Garman has delivered the keynote for the past two years, including the 2025 edition, where he addressed the full show floor and framed developers as “the heart of AWS,” according to AWS’s own keynote recap. That makes Garman the likely presenter again for 2026, but it is an expectation built on a two-year pattern, not a confirmed booking. AWS has not announced a keynote speaker for 2026 as of this writing.
Bootcamps, chalk talks, and workshops will be available at no additional cost within reserved seating once that opens. The AWS Events mobile app, which handles session favoriting and reserved seating on-site, gets its 2026 update in late September.
What AI and ML Themes Will re:Invent 2026 Likely Cover?
AWS has not published a 2026 session catalog breakdown by topic, so this section is a precedent-based projection from 2025, not a confirmed program. Here is what actually shipped at the 2025 keynote and surrounding announcement week, based on AWS’s own top announcements recap:
The Nova model family got a major refresh. Amazon introduced Nova 2 Sonic (speech-to-speech), Nova 2 Lite (a fast, cost-effective reasoning model with a million-token context window), and Nova 2 Omni (multimodal, in preview). Amazon also launched Nova Forge, letting organizations train custom frontier models on top of Nova.
Bedrock expanded its agent and model-choice story. Bedrock AgentCore added quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying AI agents at scale. Bedrock also added 18 fully managed open-weight models, including new Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models, plus a reinforcement fine-tuning feature claiming 66% accuracy gains over base models.
SageMaker leaned into training efficiency. SageMaker AI added serverless MLflow, and SageMaker HyperPod introduced checkpointless and elastic training, letting workloads recover instantly from failures and scale automatically.
Custom silicon kept advancing. Trainium3 UltraServers, built on AWS’s first 3-nanometer AI chip, became available, alongside Graviton5, AWS’s most powerful CPU generation to date.
A new enterprise AI infrastructure category appeared. AWS introduced AI Factories: fully managed AWS AI infrastructure deployed inside a customer’s own data centers, aimed at enterprises and governments with data residency requirements.
If 2026 follows that trajectory, a reasonable bet is a Nova 3 generation or equivalent, further Bedrock agent tooling, and the next round of Trainium and Graviton silicon. None of that is confirmed. It is a pattern read off one prior year, not a leaked roadmap.
AWS re:Invent 2026 Registration and Ticket Pricing
Registration for AWS re:Invent 2026 is open now, and it requires an AWS Builder ID, a personal identity AWS uses across its developer tools, not a one-off event login. Here is the actual, currently published pricing, per AWS’s official event FAQ (linked above):
| Pass type | Price |
|---|---|
| Full conference (early bird, through Aug 25, 2026) | $1,299 |
| Full conference (full price) | $2,499 |
| Bulk purchase (10+ passes, one transaction) | 10% off automatically applied |
| re:Play guest add-on pass | $350 |
| Free livestream (keynotes + select sessions) | Free, registration opens later this year |
Worth flagging directly: this pricing is meaningfully different from the roughly $1,799 to $2,099 range that shows up on some older third-party event listings, including the previous version of this page. That older range does not match what AWS is actually charging for 2026, and I would treat any site still quoting those numbers as working from stale data.
There are no day passes or expo-only passes. A full conference pass is required to attend any session, workshop, or the expo floor. You must be at least 18 years old by the day you pick up your badge. If you plan to book a room in AWS’s official hotel block, note that most re:Invent campus hotels require guests to be 21 or older, excluding Treasure Island, due to Nevada gaming regulations.
Cancellation terms are specific and worth planning around: a full refund is available if AWS receives your cancellation notice by October 16, 2026; a 50% refund applies between October 17 and November 23, 2026; and there is no refund after November 23, 2026.
Discounts and Group Rates for AWS re:Invent 2026
There is no zplatform.ai-specific discount code for AWS re:Invent, and I am not manufacturing one. What is actually confirmed: AWS automatically applies a 10% discount when you purchase 10 or more full conference passes in a single transaction, no code required. Group registration codes then get distributed through the attendee portal to each individual, who registers under their own account.
AWS also offers a 50% discount voucher toward any AWS Certification exam for in-person registrants only (not available to virtual/livestream registrants), usable before January 31, 2027, one per person, not combinable with other offers. That is a real cost offset if your team already plans to pursue AWS certifications.
Discounted hotel rates are available through AWS’s official booking portal after registration, with room blocks closing November 5, 2026. Book early: AWS’s own FAQ notes hotels “fill quickly.” Want a heads-up before pricing tiers or the reserved-seating window change? Subscribe for AI event and deal alerts on this site.
Is AWS re:Invent 2026 Worth It? My Honest Take
For AWS-native AI and ML teams, yes, with a caveat. Re:Invent has consistently been the venue where Bedrock, SageMaker, and the Nova model line get their biggest annual updates, and 2025’s announcement volume (a full new model generation, expanded agent tooling, and new custom silicon) shows AWS is still treating this as its flagship AI moment, not a legacy hardware show that added an AI label. If your roadmap already runs through AWS, the keynote alone is worth blocking calendar time for, and the early bird price at $1,299 is a defensible line item against $2,499 at full price.
The caveat: because there is no dedicated, separately priced “AI Track,” you are buying a full conference pass regardless of whether you only care about AI content. There is no discounted AI-only ticket. If your interest is narrowly the AI and ML sessions, the free livestream option (once registration opens later this year) is the lower-risk way to get the keynote and major announcements without the full pass price, though you will miss the hands-on labs and workshops that make re:Invent worth the trip for hands-on practitioners.
For teams with no AWS footprint, I would skip this one and watch the free keynote livestream instead. The AI content here is genuinely deep, but it is AWS-specific depth: Bedrock agent patterns and SageMaker HyperPod tricks do not transfer to a different cloud provider’s stack.
Frequently Asked Questions
When and where is AWS re:Invent 2026?
AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4, 2026, across six Las Vegas venues: Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Encore, MGM Grand, The Venetian, and Wynn.
Does AWS re:Invent have an official “AI Track”?
No. AWS organizes re:Invent’s 2,200+ sessions by format and service category, not by a track literally named “AI Track.” AI and ML content, including Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q, and the Nova model family, runs throughout the entire week rather than in one labeled track.
How much does AWS re:Invent 2026 cost?
Early bird full conference passes cost $1,299 through August 25, 2026, rising to $2,499 at full price. Groups of 10 or more passes get an automatic 10% discount. A re:Play guest add-on pass is $350. There are no day passes or AI-specific ticket tiers.
Who is keynoting AWS re:Invent 2026?
No keynote speaker has been officially announced yet. AWS CEO Matt Garman delivered the keynote in both 2024 and 2025, making him the likely presenter again, but that is based on a two-year pattern, not a confirmed booking.
Can I attend AWS re:Invent 2026 virtually?
Yes. Keynotes and select live programming will be livestreamed for free, though registration for the livestream had not opened as of this writing; AWS says it will open “later this year.”
What AI announcements should I expect at AWS re:Invent 2026?
Nothing is confirmed yet. Based on the 2025 keynote, expect updates to the Nova model family, Bedrock’s agent tooling (AgentCore), SageMaker training efficiency features, and the next generation of Trainium or Graviton custom silicon. Treat all of this as a precedent-based guess, not an announced agenda.
Is re:Inforce still a separate conference in 2026?
No. For 2026, re:Inforce content has been folded into re:Invent. Security sessions run throughout the week, with Thursday, December 3 set aside as a dedicated day for security practitioners.
The Bottom Line
AWS re:Invent 2026 has its dates, venues, and full registration pricing locked and published: November 30 to December 4, 2026, across six Las Vegas properties, with early bird passes at $1,299 through August 25. What is not locked, and should not be treated as if it were, is the specific 2026 AI agenda and speaker lineup, plus the fact that “AI Track” is this site’s framing for a session cluster AWS itself does not brand that way.
The insight worth taking with you: last year’s keynote delivered a genuinely large AI announcement volume, a new model generation, expanded agent tooling, and new silicon, so if your team runs on AWS, the AI content here has earned the attention rather than just riding the industry’s AI hype cycle.
Your concrete next step for AWS re:Invent 2026: create your AWS Builder ID and register before the August 25, 2026 early bird deadline if you are attending in person, bookmark the official re:Invent site for the reserved-seating window opening this fall, and subscribe for AI event alerts so you hear about confirmed keynote details and session catalog updates as AWS publishes them. If you’re tracking the broader AI infrastructure and agent-tooling space beyond AWS, our best MCP servers leaderboard and best AI tools lists are good places to cross-reference what ships at re:Invent against what’s already shipping elsewhere.