Networking & Content Delivery
Your AWS Networking and Content Delivery guide to re:Invent 2026
The AWS Networking and Content Delivery (CDN) team invites you to join us at re:Invent from November 30 through December 4 2026. During that time, Las Vegas, Nevada becomes the ultimate destination for cloud innovation, and there is no better time to look ahead at where cloud networking is going.
Across five action-packed days you can dive deep into the latest AWS Networking and CDN capabilities, learn about the newest innovations, and connect with industry leaders. With thousands of sessions at your fingertips, you will have the opportunity to sharpen your skills, discover new strategies, and stay ahead of the curve as agentic workloads reshape what the network can do.
Keynotes
Join AWS leadership as they unveil the most significant announcements, new service launches, and product updates that will shape the future of cloud computing. The keynotes are where major service reveals, infrastructure improvements, and connectivity innovations land, and they set the context for everything you will explore in the networking track.
Session types
Sessions are available in several formats, and most sit under the Networking and CDN (NET) topic in the event catalog. If you plan to attend in person, lightning talks are walk-up only. For every other format you can reserve a seat through the event portal (login required) or join as a walk-up based on availability.
- Breakout sessions: Lecture-style 60-minute presentations led by AWS networking experts and customers.
- Lightning talks: 20-minute content on a focused topic. Each networking lightning talk features a recent launch.
- Chalk talks: 60-minute interactive sessions where AWS experts lead discussions and whiteboard in real time.
- Code talks: 60-minute sessions featuring coding demonstrations and technical implementations.
- Workshops: Hands-on, 120-minute sessions where you work directly with AWS services in a guided environment.
- Builders’ sessions: One-hour small-group sessions where you build something alongside an AWS expert.
Networking and CDN track (NET)
Here is a bird’s eye view of the networking track sessions (not including repeats). Note, dates and venues are subject to change so check the portal for the most up-to-date details.
Breakout sessions
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET304 | 300 | Advanced VPC design and new capabilities | Wednesday 08:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 318 |
| NET308 | 300 | Building a private service fabric across AWS accounts and orgs | Tuesday 12:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET323 | 300 | What’s new in Amazon Route 53: DNS innovations for 2026 | Thursday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET326 | 300 | Deep dive into Elastic Load Balancing for modern workloads | Monday 1:00 | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Forum 120 |
| NET327 | 300 | Connectivity strategies across AWS Partitions | Wednesday 4:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET403 | 400 | Owning atoms to bits: How AWS accelerates network innovation at scale | Thursday 1:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 318 |
| NET404 | 400 | Connect everything, everywhere: AWS global connectivity | Monday 08:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET406 | 400 | Managing and Monitoring AWS Direct Connect at Scale: Customer Lessons | Monday 2:30 | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Forum 120 |
| NET407 | 400 | EFA deep dive: Architecture, evolution, and scaling with OpenAI | Thursday 3:00 | Caesars Palace | Promenade Level | Roman I |
| NET331 | 300 | From shopping agents to shoppers: Amazon CloudFront patterns for peak retail | Wednesday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET332 | 300 | Level up your bot defense for mobile apps and web with AWS WAF SDK | Tuesday 4:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 119 |
| NET335 | 300 | Building searchable live sports with AWS Elemental and Amazon CloudFront | Monday 4:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 117 |
| IND3351 | 300 | AT&T Expands Connectivity with AWS Interconnect and Amazon Leo | Wednesday 8:30 | Caesars Forum | Forum 120 | Content Hub | Orange Theater |
Chalk talks
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET215 | 200 | Cut through the options: Choosing the right AWS connectivity solution | Monday 08:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 163 |
| NET216 | 200 | Understand your network: practical network observability on AWS | Thursday 1:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 155 |
| NET217 | 200 | More than a heartbeat: Designing health checks that matter | Monday 10:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 306 |
| NET218 | 200 | Designing your AWS network for scale: From one VPC to many | Thursday 10:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 309 |
| NET313 | 300 | Your WAN, reimagined: SD-WAN on the AWS global backbone | Thursday 4:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 311 |
| NET314 | 300 | Tenant isolation at scale: Network patterns for ISVs on AWS | Wednesday 2:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 306 |
| NET324 | 300 | Network security architecture: Deployment patterns for firewalls | Thursday 08:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 320 |
| NET325 | 300 | Resilient by design: Simplifying last-mile connectivity with AWS | Thursday 2:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 320 |
| NET328 | 300 | Elastic Fabric Adapter powering the largest AI workloads on AWS | Wednesday 4:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 167 |
| NET329 | 300 | Scaling and securing MCP Servers with AWS Load Balancing and WAF | Wednesday 10:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 163 |
| NET330 | 300 | Ready before the surge – smart ELB capacity reservations | Thursday 4:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 158 |
| NET337 | 300 | Extending your cloud network with Amazon Leo satellite connectivity | Monday 3:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 353 |
| NET303 | 300 | I didn’t know AWS WAF did this | Monday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 353 |
| NET317 | 300 | Origin management for multi-region resilient applications with Amazon CloudFront | Tuesday 3:00 | Wynn/Encore | Level 1 | Debussy 1 |
| NET318 | 300 | Architecting anti-piracy defenses for video streaming with Amazon CloudFront | Thursday 2:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 350 |
| NET319 | 300 | Practical Applications of Edge Compute in Amazon CloudFront | Wednesday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 155 |
| NET333 | 300 | A practitioner’s guide to migrating from 3rd-party CDN and WAF to AWS | Wednesday 4:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 309 |
| HMC311 | 300 | Architecting AWS Outposts networking for enterprise and ultra-low-latency workloads | TBD | TBD |
Code talks
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET301 | 300 | See the routes change: Live BGP with AWS Direct Connect | Monday 1:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 159 |
| NET306 | 300 | Your IPs, your rules: Dynamic edge routing without NAT for AWS BYOIP | Monday 2:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 159 |
| NET334 | 300 | AI agents are crawling your website? Identify, optimize, rate-limit, & monetize them | Thursday 10:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
Builders’ sessions
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET204 | 200 | Centralize AWS PrivateLink endpoints at scale with Amazon VPC Lattice | Monday 4:30 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairman’s 363 |
| NET305 | 300 | Enforce encryption in transit using Amazon VPC Encryption Controls | Monday 10:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 301 |
| NET405 | 400 | Chaos engineering: Network fault injection with Gateway Load Balancer | Monday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 304 |
| NET316 | 300 | Scaling Website Delivery with Amazon CloudFront: One Configuration, Many Sites | Thursday 09:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Room 104 |
| NET322 | 300 | Surviving the drop: Build a flash-sale control plane with CloudFront | Monday 12:00 | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Room 304 |
Workshops
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET202 | 200 | Your network, your rules: Global routing policies with AWS Cloud WAN | Thursday 12:00 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Terrace 153 |
| NET203 | 200 | Resolve it all: Build hybrid DNS architectures on AWS | Tuesday 3:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 116 |
| NET307 | 300 | Bridging clouds: Building global multicloud and hybrid networks on AWS | Monday 08:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 111 |
| NET320 | 300 | Exploit a software vulnerability, then stop it – From code to containment | Monday 12:00 | Wynn/Encore | Convention Promenade | Mouton 2 |
| NET321 | 300 | Securing Amazon Bedrock Agents with AWS WAF and a Self-Healing Security Agent | Tuesday 3:30 | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 111 |
Lightning Talk
| Session | Level | Title | Date | Venue |
| NET219 | 200 | Private AI agent egress: VPC Lattice meets AgentCore Gateway | Monday 1:30 | TBD |
Activities in the Expo
Beyond the sessions, come find us in the re:Invent Expo at The Venetian to meet AWS experts and learn through interactive demos. The Expo opens at 4:00 PM on December 1st and closes at 4:00 PM on December 4th. On December 2nd and 3rd it is open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
AWS Hardware Museum
Don’t skip the AWS hardware showcase. AWS designs and builds much of its own hardware, and here you can see it up close, including generations of the AWS Nitro System, AWS Graviton and Trainium chips, Amazon EC2 servers, networking fiber, terrestrial and subsea cables, and the switches and routers that power AWS data centers and the global network.
AWS Networking and Content Delivery kiosk
Stop by the networking kiosk to connect with subject matter experts ready to tackle your toughest networking questions, whether that is hybrid connectivity, optimizing application connectivity, securing content delivery, strengthening network security, or improving observability. Roll up your sleeves at the hands-on station where you build real-world networking architectures.
First time at re:Invent? A few practical tips
- Get your badge early – Pick up your registration pass before Monday if you can. Badge pickup is available Sunday from 10am to 6pm.
- Download the AWS Events mobile app on iOS or Android to build your agenda.
- Plan your route, not just your agenda – Use the event app for navigation and transport options, including shuttles between hotels.
- Don’t confuse Caesars Palace and Caesars Forum – They are about 0.4 miles apart.
- Hydrate and wear your most comfortable shoes.
Get ready to network your way to success
AWS re:Invent 2026 is your chance to grow your networking expertise and connect with the global cloud community right as the network becomes the foundation for agentic workloads. Start mapping your schedule today and get ready for five days of learning, connection, and innovation. Breakout sessions will be available on the AWS Events YouTube channel after re:Invent. See you in Las Vegas, and let’s make re:Invent 2026 your most impactful learning experience yet.