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Your guide to AWS Analytics at AWS re:Invent 2025
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 |
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| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3106 ANT203 | 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 Theater BIZ207 | Democratize access to insights with Amazon Quick Suite |
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 123 ANT204 | 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 Theater ANT317 | Modernize your data warehouse by moving to Amazon Redshift |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 366 ANT318 | 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 Theater ANT312 | 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 Theater ANT335 | Agentic data engineering with AWS Analytics MCP Servers |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 7 ANT328 | Data Processing architectures for building AI solutions |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Mint Green Theater ANT307 | Operating Apache Kafka and Apache Flink at scale |
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 364 BIZ203 | Amazon’s journey deploying Quick Suite across thousands of users |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Bollinger ANT304 | Build an AI-ready data foundation |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 122 BIZ227 | Generate new revenue streams with Amazon Quick Sight embedded |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Bollinger BIZ331 | 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 Theater ANT206 | 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 Theater ANT424 | 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 Theater ANT343 | 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 Theater ANT209 | 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 Theater ANT308 | 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 Theater ANT310 | Powering your Agentic AI experience with AWS Streaming and Messaging |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas E ANT344 | Build, govern, and share Amazon Quick Suite dashboards with Amazon SageMaker |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 116 ANT314 | 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 Theater ANT305 | Innovations in AWS analytics: Data processing |
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink Theater ANT315 | Intelligent Observability and Modernization with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Orange Theater DAT445 | Deep dive into databases zero-ETL integrations |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 360 ANT336 | Enterprise-scale ETL optimization for Apache Spark |
. | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 122 ANT309 | Accelerate analytics and AI with an open and secure lakehouse architecture |
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| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Orange Theater ANT339 | Turn unstructured data in Amazon S3 into AI-ready assets with SageMaker Catalog |
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| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Pink Theater ANT201 | What’s new in search, observability, and vector databases with OpenSearch |
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| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Lafite 7 | Content Hub | Orange Theater BIZ228 | Reimagine business intelligence with Amazon Quick Sight |
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| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas E OPN413 | Transforming Apache Kafka into a Scalable Message Queue |
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| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas F ANT423 | Amazon Kinesis Data Streams under the hood |
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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 |
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| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 167 ANT301-R1 | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Academy 411 ANT302-R1 | Accelerate GenAI-powered data discovery and sharing with SageMaker Catalog |
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353 ANT301-R | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353 ANT207 | Develop with natural language and agentic AI in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio |
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 221 ANT331 | Optimize Cost and Performance in Amazon OpenSearch Service |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Reef C ANT347 | Build a secure and regulated data foundation for AI |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas A ANT311 | 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 H ANT319-R1 | Optimizing Apache Spark workloads with AWS Analytics |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas A ANT346 | Architectural blueprints for your lakehouse in Amazon SageMaker |
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| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas A ANT420-R | AI-driven scaling in Amazon Redshift Serverless |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 305 ANT301-R2 | Accelerating the shift from batch to real-time streaming |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 158 ANT321 | Top 10 tips to improve query performance in Amazon Redshift |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 101 ANT303 | Implement data pipelines for analytics using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio |
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| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 5 ANT302-R | Accelerate GenAI-powered data discovery and sharing with SageMaker Catalog |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Lagoon G ANT330-R | Design and build Intelligent Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | La Tache 2 ANT320 | Strengthening security for Apache Spark workloads |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas J ANT322 | Architectural patterns for real-time data analytics on AWS |
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| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas A ANT338 | Bring unified analytics to your data warehouse with the lakehouse architecture |
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 320 ANT325-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 C ANT332 | Building high-quality data products for AI Agents |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 101 ANT337 | Breaking data silos with the lakehouse architecture |
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| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Montrachet 1 BIZ323 | 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 G ANT420-R1 | AI-driven scaling in Amazon Redshift Serverless |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas C ANT340 | Deep dive into data processing in SageMaker Unified Studio |
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| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 353 ANT325-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 B ANT341 | 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 356 ANT345 | Building secure and scalable lakehouses for the future |
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| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas A ANT329 | Build Advanced AI-powered Search with OpenSearch MCP and Vectors |
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas C BIZ327 | 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 J ANT413 | Upgrade Amazon DataZone to Amazon SageMaker Catalog for analytics and AI |
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| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 320 BIZ319 | Beyond chatbots: Discover conversational AI in Amazon Quick Suite |
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 5 ANT421 | Advanced Stream Processing with Apache Flink |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 350 ANT324 | Building Pipelines for Analytics, ML and AI in Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio |
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| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 356 ANT422 | Building Resilient Multi-Tenant Messaging with Amazon SQS |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Reef C ANT319-R | Optimizing Apache Spark workloads with AWS Analytics |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas C ANT323 | Mastering materialized views: tips for fast, low-latency queries in Redshift |
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| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 305 ANT330-R1 | Design and build Intelligent Observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 350 ANT326 | Mastering data transformations with Amazon Athena |
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| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Boulevard 167 ANT316 | 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 |
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| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7 ANT407-R1 | Building event-driven applications with AWS Streaming and Messaging |
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104 ANT415 | Securely monetize your data with Amazon Redshift |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander H ANT407-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 1 ANT409 | Getting hands on with zero-ETL and data federation |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 AM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104 ANT410-R | Integrate and orchestrate data workflows with AWS Glue & MWAA |
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 304 ANT405-R1 | Build high performance Apache Iceberg data lakes with Amazon S3 Tables |
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7 ANT406-R | Build trust in your data with Amazon SageMaker Catalog |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander H ANT419-R | Vector search with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Latour 7 ANT406-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 2 ANT410-R1 | Integrate and orchestrate data workflows with AWS Glue & MWAA |
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Room 304 ANT419-R1 | Vector search with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 315 OPN407-R1 | Performance tuning for streaming Ingestion into Apache Iceberg |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Room 104 ANT408 | Data analytics for financial organizations with Amazon SageMaker |
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| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 311 OPN407-R | Performance tuning for streaming Ingestion into Apache Iceberg |
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| 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander H ANT405-R | Build high performance Apache Iceberg data lakes with Amazon S3 Tables |
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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 |
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| 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander C ANT402-R1 | Build a fraud detection system with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio |
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317 ANT418 | Unleash Apache Kafka’s elasticity and cost-efficiency with Amazon MSK |
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander C ANT402-R | Build a fraud detection system with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio |
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317 ANT412 | Power streaming analytics on AWS with AI-driven insights |
| 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom H ANT403 | Building Production-Ready Data Systems for AI Applications |
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Chairman’s 368 ANT404-R1 | Build modern data applications with the lakehouse architecture on AWS |
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Alliance 308 BIZ204-R1 | Experience AI-powered BI with Amazon Quick Suite |
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander C ANT416 | Solve complex data and AI governance challenges with Amazon SageMaker Catalog |
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 3 BIZ306 | Create agentic AI chat experiences with Amazon Quick Suite |
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom K ANT411 | Low-cost logging and observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service |
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM PST | MGM | Level 1 | Grand 113 ANT404-R | Build modern data applications with the lakehouse architecture on AWS |
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| 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | MGM | Level 3 | Premier 317 ANT417 | Simplifying data interoperability with the lakehouse architecture on AWS |
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Wynn | Upper Convention Promenade | Cristal 1 BIZ204-R | Experience AI-powered BI with Amazon Quick Suite |
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Lower Level North | Islander C ANT401 | Build an AI-powered enterprise search with Amazon OpenSearch service |
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| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Mandalay Bay Ballroom K ANT414 | Scale intelligent analytics with Amazon Redshift multi-cluster architectures |
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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 |
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| 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 4 ANT334 | High-performance NLP & geospatial analysis with Redshift |
. | 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 South | Oceanside C | Content Hub | Lightning Theater ANT333 | Fast-track to insights: AWS-SAP data strategy |
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 3 ANT342 | ITTI’s Cross-Company Data Mesh Blueprint with Amazon SageMaker |
| 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Hall B | Expo | Theater 3 ANT348 | Seamless data sharing in Amazon Redshift |
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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.