Containers

Amazon ECS at AWS re:Invent 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent returns to Las Vegas from December 1-5, 2025, bringing together the global cloud computing community for an unparalleled learning experience. This premier event is where cloud pioneers gather from across the globe for the latest AWS innovations, peer-to-peer learning, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking opportunities. The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate teams are preparing to share exciting developments in container technology that will transform how you build and deploy applications. Throughout the conference, you’ll discover the latest trends in containerization, learn innovative approaches to increase productivity, and explore AI-powered development workflows designed to enhance business agility and optimize costs.

The container expertise doesn’t stop at the sessions. We invite you to visit the AWS Containers kiosk, located in AWS Village and attend our learning series happening at the Learners Corner located at the Developers Pavilion. At each location, our specialists will demonstrate live Amazon ECS features, practical use cases, latest releases focused on Amazon ECS deployments, answer your technical questions about building modern containerized applications on AWS, and showcase how AI is revolutionizing container development practices. We encourage you to stop by, engage with our experts, and join the conversation about the future of cloud container services.

Session types

As in previous years, the conference offers a variety of session formats:

  • Breakout sessions: Lecture-style presentations delivered by AWS experts, builders, and customers.
  • Chalk talks: Interactive sessions led by experts on a variety of topics. Share your own experiences and feedback.
  • Workshops: Hands-on learning sessions designed to help you explore new technologies. Bring your own laptop.
  • Builder sessions: Smaller sessions led by AWS experts where you’ll build a project on your own laptop.
  • Lightning talks: Located in the Expo Hall, these 20-minute focused presentations are dedicated to specific customer stories, service demos, or AWS Partner offerings

Sessions to attend

Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate sessions are part of the Containers and Serverless (CNS) track this year, featuring new capabilities that streamline infrastructure management and accelerate development. This includes Amazon ECS Managed Instances, which offloads compute provisioning and lifecycle management while giving customers full access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) features; accelerated deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce iteration time; and advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and linear deployments with automated rollback. We are also introducing deeper AI-powered experiences, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for context-aware developer workflows, Amazon Q Developer + ECS for generating production-ready environments using natural language prompts, and generative AI-powered observability that can analyze issues, surface root causes, and suggest remediations. Together, these innovations help customers build and run modern container applications with more automation, more flexibility, and less undifferentiated heavy lifting.

Don’t miss our key sessions featuring new launches and innovations:

  • CNS342: Navigate cloud compute with Fargate and ECS Managed Instances, featuring Amazon ECS Managed Instances
  • CNS416: Deep Dive: ECS Managed Instances & Blue/Green for Resilient Services, featuring Amazon ECS Managed Instances and blue/green deployments
  • CNS341: From code to cloud: Accelerate application development with Amazon ECS, featuring latest development capabilities
  • CNS353: Build safe and resilient deployment pipelines for Amazon ECS, featuring blue/green deployments
  • CNS358: Build AI-powered developer experiences with MCP on ECS, EKS and Lambda, experience MCP integration
  • CNS339: Vibe coding production-ready containerized applications, experience Amazon Q + ECS MCP integration

Click on the session IDs to reserve your seats.

AI-powered container development

The following sessions cover AI-powered container development.

AI development tools and MCP integration

  • CNS339 | Vibe coding production-ready containerized applications (Builders)
  • CNS358 | Build AI-powered developer experiences with MCP on Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Lambda (Breakout)

Building AI agents and workloads

  • CNS311 | Building serverless AI agents in Java with Spring AI (Builders)
  • CNS347 | Build secure and scalable agentic AI workflows on Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)
  • CNS348 | LLMs in Production: Fast deployment with Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)

Production-ready container operations

The following sessions cover production-ready container operations.

Resilience and availability

  • CNS416 | Deep dive: Amazon ECS managed instances and blue/green for resilient services (Breakout)
  • CNS329 | Reducing downtime: Build resilient architectures with Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)
  • CNS352 | Build an adaptive compute grid with Amazon ECS and Lambda (Chalk talk)

Performance and cost optimization

  • CNS342 | Navigate cloud compute with Fargate and Amazon ECS managed instances (Breakout)
  • CNS306 | Optimizing compute for performance and scale with Amazon ECS (Builders)
  • CNS349 | Optimize your Amazon ECS workloads for performance and cost (Chalk talk)
  • CNS350 | Autoscaling patterns for production workloads on Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)

Security and compliance

  • CNS302 | Architecting for data protection and compliance with Amazon ECS (Builders)
  • CNS313 | Demystifying the shared security model on Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)
  • CNS327 | Optimizing your Amazon ECS application networking strategy (Chalk talk)
  • CNS330 | Securing Amazon ECS workloads with application-aware networking (Workshop)

Observability and monitoring

  • CNS351 | Amazon ECS observability patterns and design decisions (Chalk talk)
  • CNS413 | Unveiling Amazon ECS workloads with AWS observability and agentic AI (Chalk talk)

Building modern application architectures

The following sessions cover building modern application architectures.

Deployment strategies

  • CNS315 | Accelerate software delivery with Amazon ECS (Breakout)
  • CNS321 | Building resilient deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS (Workshop)
  • CNS353 | Build safe and resilient deployment pipelines for Amazon ECS (Lightning)

Key application patterns

  • CNS307 | Building event-driven architectures using Amazon ECS with Fargate (Breakout)
  • CNS341 | From code to cloud: Accelerate application development with Amazon ECS (Breakout)
  • CNS309 | Building multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) applications with Amazon ECS (Workshop)

Modernizing applications

  • CNS323 | Learn multi-tier application architectures on Amazon ECS (Workshop)
  • CNS326 | Modernize .NET Framework workloads with containers and AWS Transform (Workshop)
  • CNS346 | Break down monoliths, modernizing applications on Amazon ECS (Chalk talk)

Virtual participation

Can’t make it to Las Vegas? Join virtually with our comprehensive digital experience including live-streamed keynotes and leadership sessions, on-demand access to all breakout sessions post-event through the AWS Events YouTube channel, virtual networking opportunities with Amazon ECS experts, and digital access to session materials and code samples.

Getting connected

Contact your AWS Account Team if you’re interested in learning more about any of these sessions or would like to arrange a meeting with our experts. You can also visit the AWS Containers kiosk in the Expo Hall, AWS Village, Learners Corner, or the Developers Pavilion during the event to connect directly with AWS specialists who can answer any questions you may have.

Next steps

We look forward to seeing you at re:Invent 2025! Discover how these innovations can accelerate your applications. For more learning resources, visit Amazon ECS to get started.

About the authors

Himanshi Goyal is a Product Marketing Manager for Containers and Serverless at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She crafts customer-focused narratives that bridge product capabilities with real-world use cases, enabling organizations to understand, adopt, and get the most value from AWS.

Sai Kumar Samala is a Specialist Solutions Architect for Containers at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS container services, and GPU-accelerated workloads on Kubernetes. Sai helps organizations architect scalable, container-based solutions while harnessing the full potential of GPU resources in containerized environments and modernizing their applications with scalable, cloud-native solutions.