AWS re:Invent 2022 — My Selection Of Sessions

AWS re:Invent 2022 is getting closer. As the sessions registration opens on Tuesday, 11th October at 10AM PDT, I list here the sessions I will be keen to attend.

re:Invent

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Sessions catalog

https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reinvent2022/dashboard/event/sessions

• The sessions below mainly include Breakout sessions and chalk talks — Session title, code, time, location
• There are overlaps in my selection as I can’t be sure whether I will manage to reserve places for my preferred sessions.
• Time in re:Invent Las Vegas time

Breakfast

Tuesday — Thursday

6:30 AM — 8:30 AM

• Caesars Forum in Forum 135
• Mandalay Bay on Level 2 in Oceanside D
• MGM on Level 1 in the Marquee Ballroom
• The Venetian on Level 1 in Hall G
• Wynn in Cristal 2

Friday

6:30 AM — 8:30 AM

• Caesars Forum in Forum 135
• The Venetian on Level 1 in Hall G

Lunch: Monday — Thursday

11:00 AM — 1:00 PM

• Caesars Forum in Forum 135
• Mandalay Bay on Level 2 in Oceanside D
• MGM on Level 1 in the Marquee Ballroom
• The Venetian on Level 1 in Hall G
• Wynn in Cristal 2

Monday Welcome reception

4:00 PM — 7:00 PM

Light refreshments and beverage service are provided throughout the hall and in select sponsor booths.

Monday, November 28

Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures

API311
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 1, Lafite 5, Wynn

Building modern API architectures: Which front door should I use?

SVS318

10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 1, Lafite 4, Wynn

Effective multi-tenant solutions using Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

DAT208
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Level 1, Alliance 311, Caesars Forum

Unleash developer productivity with infrastructure from code

COM301
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Level 2 South, Oceanside D, Mandalay Bay

Thinking serverless: From business problem to serverless solutions

SVS201
12:15 PM — 1:15 PM
Level 1, Academy 412, Caesars Forum
James Beswick

Understanding design in event-driven architecture

API313
12:15 PM — 1:15 PM
Level 3, 354, MGM Grand
David Boyne

Building a cell-based microservices architecture on AWS for hyperscale

ARC312
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM
Level 3, Lido 3106, Venetian

Leading beyond line of sight: Amazon’s two-pizza teams

INO204
1:45 PM — 2:45 PM
Level 1, Grand 121, MGM Grand

Dive deep into Amazon DynamoDB using design puzzles

DAT203
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM
Level 1, La Tache 1, Wynn

Building a multi-Region serverless application with AWS AppSync

FWM310
3:15 PM — 4:15 PM
Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand

Building secure serverless applications on AWS

BOA102
3:15 PM — 4:15 PM
Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand
Dennis Traub

Deploy modern and effective data models with Amazon DynamoDB

DAT320
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum
Alex Debrie

The well-architected way

ARC210
4:45 PM — 5:45 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 364, MGM Grand

Architecting secure serverless applications

SVS302
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM
Level 1, Lafite 5, Wynn

Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis
KEY001
7:30 PM — 9:00 PM
Level 2, Hall F, Venetian

Tuesday, November 29

Adam Selipsky Keynote

KEY002
8:30 AM — 10:30 AM
Level 2, Hall F, Venetian

Build production-ready prototypes rapidly using serverless patterns

ARC311
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Upper Level, Bollinger, Wynn

Migrate from a relational database to Amazon DynamoDB

DAT306
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Level 3, 306, MGM Grand

Resilient and well-architected applications with chaos engineering

BOA324
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Level 1, 101, MGM Grand

Building global event-driven applications

API302
11:45 AM — 12:45 PM
Level 1, Grand 121, MGM Grand
Marcia

Best practices for advanced serverless developers

SVS401
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay

Supercharge your serverless application with AWS Lambda extensions

SVS317
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Level 1, Forum 104, Caesars Forum

Cost optimization for Amazon DynamoDB

DAT315
1:15 PM — 2:15 PM
Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn

Operational best practices for event-driven architectures

API301
1:15 PM — 2:15 PM
Level 3, 354, MGM Grand

Practical experience with a serverless-first strategy at Capital One

SVS311
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Level 1, Encore Ballroom 5, Encore

AWS Lambda Powertools: Lessons from the road to 10 million downloads

OPN306
2:45 PM — 3:45 PM
Level 1, Summit 228, Caesars Forum
Heitor

Amazon’s DevOps culture

DOP203
2:45 PM — 3:45 PM
Level 1, Chambertin 2, Wynn

Reliable scalability: How Amazon.com scales in the cloud

ARC206
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 355, MGM Grand

Lift and shift a web application to serverless: Yes, it’s possible!

BOA326
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay
Danilo, Marcia

Refactoring to serverless

SVS301
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Level 1, Boulevard 167, MGM Grand
Gregor

Wednesday, November 30

Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote

KEY003
8:30 AM — 10:30 AM
Level 2, Hall F, Venetian

Chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator

DOP313
8:30 AM — 9:30 AM
Level 1, Academy 417, Caesars Forum

API-first functionless application architectures with AWS AppSync

FWM305
9:15 AM — 10:15 AM
Level 3, 354, MGM Grand

Continuous innovation in AWS threat detection & monitoring services

SEC209
9:15 AM — 10:15 AM
Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn

Data modeling best practices with Amazon DocumentDB

DAT201
9:15 AM — 10:15 AM
Level 2 South, Oceanside F, Mandalay Bay

Tuning AWS Lambda event source mappings

SVS316
9:15 AM — 10:15 AM
Level 1, Alliance 305, Caesars Forum

A closer look at AWS Lambda

SVS404
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 1 North, South Pacific F, Mandalay Bay

Building and operating a data lake on Amazon S3

STG302
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 3, Lido 3106, Venetian

Domain-driven design and event storming

API310
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 1, 101, MGM Grand
Luca

Observability patterns for highly available applications

COP329
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Level 1, Boulevard 167, MGM Grand

Accelerate GraphQL API app development & collaboration with AWS AppSync

FWM316
10:45 AM — 11:45 AM
Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand

Serverless stream processing with AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis & Kafka

SVS402
10:45 AM — 11:45 AM
Level 2 South, Oceanside F, Mandalay Bay

A day in the life of a billion requests

SEC404
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Level 2, Venetian Theatre, Venetian

Why build a cloud center of excellence?

COM402
11:30 AM — 12:00 PM
Level 2, Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818, Venetian

Building high-performance HTTP APIs on AWS with Rust

BOA201
12:15 PM — 1:15 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 364, MGM Grand

Automated testing for serverless applications

COM401
12:30 PM — 1:00 PM
Level 2, Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818, Venetian

Understanding and implementing observability for serverless

SVS304
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM
Level 1, Palmer 2, Wynn

Still integrating or already building distributed applications?

API308
1:45 PM — 2:45 PM
Level 1, Summit 228, Caesars Forum
Gregor

Beyond five 9s: Lessons from our highest available data planes

ARC310
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM
Level 2, Venetian Theatre, Venetian

Deep dive into Amazon Aurora and its innovations

DAT326
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM
Level 3 South, South Seas C, Mandalay Bay

Sustainability in AWS global infrastructure

SUS204
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM
Level 2 South, Oceanside D, Mandalay Bay

Adopting microservices: Decompose, apply Strangler pattern, repeat

BOA315
3:15 PM — 4:15 PM
Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand

How Buy with Prime built a resilient multitenant SaaS architecture

BWP301
3:15 PM — 4:15 PM
Level 1, Grand 115, MGM Grand

Understanding AWS Lambda concurrency

SVS305
3:15 PM — 4:15 PM
Level 1, 104, MGM Grand

How to build a smart doorbell with AWS serverless

COM202
4:00 PM — 4:30 PM
Level 2, Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818, Venetian
Pubudu

Build a serverless data streaming workload with Amazon Kinesis

ANT333
4:45 PM — 5:45 PM
Level 1, Forum 126, Caesars Forum

Designing resilient serverless architectures

ARC315
4:45 PM — 5:45 PM
Level 3 South, Jasmine F, Mandalay Bay

Smart serverless architecture for smart manufacturing (sponsored by Capgemini)

PRT301
4:45 PM — 5:45 PM
Level 1, Summit 201, Caesars Forum

AWS data protection: Using locks, keys, signatures, and certificates

SEC212
6:15 PM — 7:15 PM
Level 2 South, Lagoon I, Mandalay Bay

Building real-world serverless applications with AWS SAM

SVS303
6:15 PM — 7:15 PM
Upper Level, Cristal 7, Wynn

Dive deep on AWS networking infrastructure

NET319
6:15 PM — 7:45 PM
Level 1, Lafite 9, Wynn

What’s new in Amazon Athena

ANT208
7:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Level 1, Forum 113, Caesars Forum

Application integration patterns for microservices

API303
7:45 PM — 8:45 PM
Level 3, Lido 3003, Venetian

Thursday, December 1

Werner Vogels Keynote

KEY005
8:30 AM — 10:30 AM
Level 2, Hall F, Venetian

Building well-architected serverless applications

BOA307
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Level 2 South, Breakers L, Mandalay Bay

Modern cloud applications: Do they lock you in?

ARC207
11:45 AM — 12:45 PM
Level 1, Encore Ballroom 2, Encore

Create real-time, event-driven apps with Amazon EventBridge & AWS

AppSync
FWM201
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 355, MGM Grand

Zero-friction AWS Lambda instrumentation: A guide to extensions

COM308
1:00 PM — 1:30 PM
Level 2, Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818, Venetian

Advanced serverless workflow patterns and best practices

API309
1:15 PM — 2:15 PM
Level 1, Lafite 9, Wynn

Build your application easily & efficiently with serverless containers

CON309
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Level 1, Encore Ballroom 5, Encore

Let’s write a microservice using AWS Lambda (or maybe not)

COM205
2:00 PM — 2:30 PM
Level 2, Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818, Venetian

What’s new with serverless

SVS204
2:45 PM — 3:45 PM
Level 3 South, South Seas A, Mandalay Bay
David

Building Serverlesspresso: Creating event-driven architectures

SVS312
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 355, MGM Grand
James

Building observable applications with OpenTelemetry

BOA310
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Level 1, Lafite 5, Wynn
Danilo, Marcia

How Capital One accelerates innovation with AWS databases

DAT211
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Level 3, Chairmans 370, MGM Grand

AWS Lambda performance tuning: Best practices and guidance

SVS314
4:15 PM — 5:15 PM
Level 1, Boulevard 169, MGM Grand

Designing event-driven integrations using Amazon EventBridge

API307
4:15 PM — 5:15 PM
Level 2 South, Lagoon I, Mandalay Bay