AWS re:Invent 2025 is coming up in one short week. There's no shortage of quirky events on the schedule--many new for this year. Which will you choose? As an eleven-time re:Invent veteran, I can help figure out which can fit into your schedule:
Road to re:Invent
"Watch technical debt accumulate in real-time, now with live commentary"
House of Kiro
"Haunted by ghosts of AWS Q features nobody understood"
The Fragrance Lab
"Making scents of your AI inputs"
Tattoos & Piercings
"Immutable infrastructure applied to human flesh"
Rock, Paper, Scissors
"Distributed systems education disguised as playground warfare"
Ride the Slide
"Vertical scale-down in its most literal form"
Magic the Gathering
"Gamify your resource management"
Ice Barr Trivia
"Cold storage you can actually afford to retrieve from"
Bingo After Dark
"I4 is finally a bingo square*, not an instance type"
AWS re:Invent 5K Race
"No health checks beyond 'do you feel like running?'"
Amazon's World Famous Chicken Wing Eating Competition
"The only AWS event where throughput metrics are visible, measurable, and deeply uncomfortable for everyone involved"
For a complete list of these, and an actual excellent way to plan out your re:Invent schedule, check out AWS Community Builder Raphael Manke's RIV Planner:
https://reinvent-planner.cloud/
* Yes, I know that I4 cannot be a legit bingo call
** Yes, I am not good at humor. Yet.
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