On this page · 10 sections
- re:Invent 2026 at a glance
- The five keynotes: schedule in PT, IST and GMT
- What AWS has confirmed before re:Invent
- What to watch at re:Invent 2026: expectations, labelled
- Pre-event checklist for AWS buyers
- Worked example: AgentCore web search for an agent served from Mumbai
- India, EU and US notes
- After re:Invent
- How eCorpIT can help
- References
Summary. AWS re:Invent 2026 runs from Monday 30 November to Friday 4 December in Las Vegas. AWS's keynotes page, last updated on 9 November, lists five keynotes: the Developer keynote on Monday 30 November at 7:30 pm PT; CEO Matt Garman on Tuesday 1 December at 8:30 am PT (10:00 pm IST, 16:30 GMT); Data & AI with Swami Sivasubramanian on Wednesday 2 December at 8:30 am; the Partner keynote at 3:00 pm that day; and Technical Innovations with Matt Wood and Chief Trainium Architect Ron Diamant on Thursday 3 December at 8:30 am. A full pass costs $2,499, with 10% off for 10 or more passes, and the keynote livestream is free. AWS launches services on stage, so nothing below counts as announced until it is. Already on record: Andy Jassy told Amazon's 29 October results call that Amazon intends to offer Trainium outside AWS late in 2027; the AgentCore Web Search API became generally available on 10 November at $7 per 1,000 queries, but not in Mumbai or Hyderabad; and AWS cost tools now amortise EC2 Capacity Blocks. Watch the Trainium roadmap, AgentCore parity in Indian Regions and any commitment pricing. Our verdict: hold large three-year commitments until after 4 December unless one expires first, and work through the checklist below.
About this article. For CTOs, cloud architects and FinOps leads in India, the UK and the US who buy or run AWS services. On 11 November 2026 we checked the schedule, prices and every pre-event fact against AWS's re:Invent pages, AWS What's New posts, AWS documentation, Amazon's results materials and the EU's official legal text. Anything AWS has not announced is labelled as an expectation. This is general information, not financial or legal advice; AWS can change times and prices, and no vendor paid for inclusion. Researched with AI assistance and reviewed by our editorial team.
re:Invent 2026 at a glance
Sessions run across five Las Vegas venues, with keynotes and the Expo at The Venetian, and Friday sessions end at 12:30 pm. AWS's home page says it expects more than 60,000 attendees and lists over 2,200 sessions, 70% of them interactive.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Dates | Monday 30 November to Friday 4 December 2026; badge pickup from Sunday 29 November |
| Venues | The Venetian, Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Wynn and Encore |
| Expected attendance | 60,000+ (AWS figure) |
| Sessions and speakers | 2,200+ sessions, 70% interactive; 3,000+ speakers |
| Full pass | $2,499; 10% off for 10 or more passes in one transaction |
| Early-bird pricing | Ended 25 August 2026 |
| Livestream | Free registration; keynotes and over 50 sessions |
| Expo | 420+ sponsors and booths at The Venetian; Monday evening reception, then Tuesday to Thursday, closing 4:00 pm Thursday |
| Security focus day | Thursday 3 December, Wynn |
| re:Play | Thursday 3 December, 6:30 to 10:30 pm, Allegiant Stadium |
Pass prices and the speaker count come from AWS's pricing page, and venues, the Expo and re:Play from the agenda. For a team of ten, the bulk discount takes 10 × $2,499 = $24,990 down to $22,491.
The five keynotes: schedule in PT, IST and GMT
AWS's agenda page says its times are Pacific Daylight Time. Las Vegas left daylight saving time on Sunday 1 November 2026, so we read the listed times as local Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) and converted on that basis: IST is 13.5 hours ahead and GMT is 8 hours ahead. AWS says times may change. Speakers and times below are from the keynotes page.
| Keynote | Speakers listed by AWS | PT (Las Vegas) | IST (India) | GMT (UK) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Clare Liguori, Eric Johnson, Marc Brooker, Neha Rungta | Mon 30 Nov, 19:30 to 20:45 | Tue 1 Dec, 09:00 to 10:15 | Tue 1 Dec, 03:30 to 04:45 |
| CEO | Matt Garman, with Barbara Karuth-Zelle (Allianz) and Tony Xu (DoorDash) | Tue 1 Dec, 08:30 to 10:30 | Tue 1 Dec 22:00 to Wed 2 Dec 00:00 | Tue 1 Dec, 16:30 to 18:30 |
| Data & AI | Swami Sivasubramanian, Andy Warfield, Hannes Mühleisen, with Delta Air Lines and Cox Automotive | Wed 2 Dec, 08:30 to 10:00 | Wed 2 Dec, 22:00 to 23:30 | Wed 2 Dec, 16:30 to 18:00 |
| Partner | Ruba Borno, Matt Garman, Matt Yanchyshyn, with Presidio and Marriott International | Wed 2 Dec, 15:00 to 16:00 | Thu 3 Dec, 04:30 to 05:30 | Wed 2 Dec 23:00 to Thu 3 Dec 00:00 |
| Technical Innovations | Matt Wood, Amy Herzog, Colm MacCárthaigh, Ron Diamant, Oliver Cameron (Odyssey) | Thu 3 Dec, 08:30 to 10:00 | Thu 3 Dec, 22:00 to 23:30 | Thu 3 Dec, 16:30 to 18:00 |
AWS's short descriptions show where each keynote is aimed. In our own words, with our expectations labelled:
- Developer keynote. Building apps quickly, agents that hold up in real use, and confidence in code that AI writes. With Marc Brooker (VP and Distinguished Engineer) and Neha Rungta (Director, Applied Science) listed, we expect agent reliability and code verification to feature, not only new tools.
- CEO keynote. AWS says Garman will present new launches spanning AI infrastructure and agents. The keynotes page recalls that the 2025 launches, from chips to agents, were made on stage.
- Data & AI keynote. Taking agents from demo to production: dependable data access, demonstrated value and clear limits. AWS lists Sivasubramanian as VP, Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies.
- Partner keynote. Where partners should invest, and simpler co-selling and go-to-market. Matt Yanchyshyn is VP, Marketplace and Partner Services, so we expect Marketplace terms to come up.
- Technical Innovations keynote. AWS infrastructure from silicon to storage, built for unpredictable agent workloads. With Ron Diamant (VP and Chief Trainium Architect) and CISO Amy Herzog listed, this is the keynote for chips and security engineering. The agenda page calls it the Technology Innovations keynote, at the same time.
For Indian teams the timing is awkward: the CEO, Data & AI and Technical Innovations keynotes all start at 10:00 pm IST, the Partner keynote at 4:30 am IST, and the Developer keynote at 9:00 am IST on Tuesday 1 December.
What AWS has confirmed before re:Invent
Each fact below is dated and published by Amazon or AWS. Read every on-stage launch against them.
Trainium: strong demand and an outside-AWS plan for late 2027
Amazon reported third-quarter results on 29 October and held its results call that afternoon. On 30 October it published Andy Jassy's call remarks on custom chips. He said the chips business is growing at triple-digit percentages year over year, that revenue commitments for Graviton and Trainium have each grown more than 20 times year over year, and that customers using Amazon's custom silicon saved more than $2 billion in the quarter. He added that short-term capacity on prior-generation Trainium instances now sells at a premium to first-half levels, that inference is well over half of AWS's AI revenue, and that Amazon intends to make Trainium available outside AWS late in 2027. Amazon has published no form, price or terms for that offer.
The current product is Trainium3. AWS's Trn3 page says a Trn3 UltraServer scales to 144 Trainium3 chips, with up to 362 MXFP8 PFLOPs, 20.7 TB of HBM3e and 706 TB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth; each chip carries 144 GB of HBM3e. AWS claims up to 4.4 times the performance and 4 times the performance per watt of Trn2 UltraServers; those are vendor figures. For on-premises buyers, AWS AI Factories already put Trn2 and Trn3 inside customer data centres. AWS says deployment takes about 3 to 6 months once the site is handed over, and pricing follows a joint assessment. Our guide to Trainium outside AWS in late 2027 covers that decision in depth.
Bedrock AgentCore: a Web Search API, with regional gaps
On 10 November AWS made the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore generally available. The InvokeWebSearch call returns ranked results from an Amazon-operated web index, with filters for domain and publication time, IAM authorisation, PrivateLink access and CloudTrail data events. It costs $7 per 1,000 queries, the same rate as Web Search through AgentCore Gateway, with no gateway charge, and runs in six Regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Sydney, Tokyo and Ireland. On 5 November AWS also made Web Answer generally available, a tool that returns a synthesised, cited answer in one call. It runs only in N. Virginia, and the AgentCore pricing page lists it at $10 per 1,000 tool calls.
The AgentCore Regions table matters for India. Mumbai supports the AgentCore harness, Runtime microVMs and Runtime Instances, Memory, Gateway, Identity, built-in tools, Observability, Policy, Evaluations and optimisation. It does not support AgentCore payments, AWS Agent Registry, the Web Search tool, the Web Search API or Web Answer. Hyderabad also lacks the harness, Runtime Instances and Memory. Our August comparison of agent web search APIs sets the AgentCore rate against other providers; it predates the standalone API and the wider Region list.
Cost visibility: Capacity Blocks amortisation
Since 6 November, AWS Data Exports for CUR 2.0 and Cost Explorer spread the upfront fee for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML across each reservation. Before, the fee appeared as one charge on the purchase date. You can now see amortised cost per instance and the cost of unused reserved capacity, at no extra charge, in all Regions except GovCloud (US) and China. If you buy GPU capacity in blocks, this is the data to have before any re:Invent capacity announcement.
Agent isolation: Nitro Sandboxes
On 9 November AWS introduced Nitro Sandboxes: lightweight VMs managed by the Nitro Hypervisor that give each EKS pod, ECS task or lightweight VM its own hardware-isolated boundary, with running LLM-generated code as a named use. AWS says enabling them in EKS or ECS is a one-line change, that cryptographic attestation can gate the release of secrets, and that they cost nothing extra on most Nitro-based instances in all commercial Regions.
Model retirements already scheduled on Bedrock
Bedrock's Legacy lifecycle page lists 26 open-weight models that entered Legacy on 30 September 2026 and reach end of life on 30 March 2027. It also lists Claude Opus 4.1 ending on 8 January 2027 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on 8 April 2027 in commercial Regions (27 April 2027 in GovCloud). Our guides to the 26 open-weight retirements and to Claude on Bedrock cover the migrations. AWS has not said re:Invent will change these dates.
Regions: 34, two in India
AWS's Regions list shows 34 Regions for a standard AWS account; GovCloud and China use separate account types. India has two: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), ap-south-1, with three Availability Zones and enabled by default, and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2, with three Availability Zones and opt-in.
The table restates the dated facts cited in this section.
| Pre-event fact | Date | Published by | Who should act |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trainium to be offered outside AWS late in 2027 | 30 Oct 2026 | About Amazon, call remarks | On-premises and sovereign AI buyers |
| Prior-generation Trainium short-term capacity sells at a premium | 30 Oct 2026 | About Amazon, call remarks | Teams buying Trn1 or Trn2 capacity |
| Web Answer on AgentCore GA, N. Virginia only | 5 Nov 2026 | AWS What's New | Agent builders |
| Capacity Blocks amortised in CUR 2.0 and Cost Explorer | 6 Nov 2026 | AWS What's New | FinOps teams with GPU blocks |
| Nitro Sandboxes for EKS, ECS and EC2, no extra charge | 9 Nov 2026 | AWS What's New | Teams running agent-generated code |
| AgentCore Web Search API GA, $7 per 1,000 queries, six Regions | 10 Nov 2026 | AWS What's New | Agent builders, especially in India |
| 26 open-weight models reach end of life on Bedrock | 30 Mar 2027 | Bedrock documentation | Bedrock users on Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral and others |
What to watch at re:Invent 2026: expectations, labelled
AWS has not announced any of the following. Each row is our expectation, based on the keynote descriptions, the speaker list or AWS's pre-event statements cited above.
| Watch item | Why we expect it | What would change your plan |
|---|---|---|
| Trainium roadmap and Trn3 availability | Ron Diamant on the Technical Innovations stage; the late-2027 statement | Trn3 in Mumbai or Hyderabad, or published terms for outside-AWS Trainium |
| Trainium capacity pricing | Prior-generation capacity sells at a premium | New Savings Plans or Capacity Block terms for Trainium |
| AgentCore and Bedrock agent services | Data & AI keynote framed on agents in production | Web Search, payments or Agent Registry reaching Mumbai |
| Model choice on Bedrock | 26 open-weight models end on 30 March 2027 | New models in Mumbai that can replace them |
| AI code verification | Developer keynote promises confidence in AI-written code | Tools you can put in CI before merging agent code |
| Commitment and capacity pricing | AWS's event page names token spend as a problem attendees bring | Changes to Savings Plans, reservations or block pricing |
| India Region and Local Zone news | Two Indian Regions, with Hyderabad behind Mumbai on AgentCore | Feature parity for Hyderabad, or new India capacity |
| Security engineering | CISO Amy Herzog on the Thursday keynote; Security focus day at Wynn | Agent identity or isolation features that replace your own |
Trainium and AI infrastructure
Expect Trainium content at the Technical Innovations keynote. What would change a buying decision is narrower: whether Trn3 reaches Regions your data must stay in, whether AWS publishes terms for outside-AWS Trainium, and whether prior-generation capacity pricing eases. Do not assume a launch date for any future chip; plan on what AWS publishes.
Bedrock and AgentCore
AgentCore shipped Web Answer and the Web Search API in the first ten days of November. For Indian teams the test is parity: the Web Search API, payments and Agent Registry are not in Mumbai today. If AWS extends them, agents that must keep data in India can drop cross-Region workarounds.
Pricing
AWS's re:Invent home page lists token spend among the problems attendees bring. AWS does not pre-announce price changes, so treat any expectation of cuts as speculation. The practical step is to know your commitment expiry dates and your Capacity Block utilisation before 1 December, so you can act on whatever is announced.
Pre-event checklist for AWS buyers
Settle these before 30 November. Each one turns a keynote launch into a decision you can make in days.
Capacity and Trainium
- List current GPU and Trainium usage by instance family, Region and commitment type.
- Turn on the amortised view in Cost Explorer and check Capacity Block utilisation for the last three months.
- Record your Neuron SDK version and which models already run on Trainium.
- Shortlist two workloads to benchmark on Trn3 if AWS expands availability.
Bedrock and AgentCore
- Inventory every Bedrock model in use against the 8 January, 30 March and 8 April 2027 end-of-life dates.
- Map each AgentCore feature you use, or plan to use, against the Regions table for Mumbai and Hyderabad.
- Estimate monthly web search volume and price it at $7 per 1,000 queries.
- Decide which agents may call services outside India and which may not.
Pricing and commitments
- List Savings Plans and Reserved Instances expiring before 31 March 2027.
- Avoid signing new three-year commitments before 4 December unless an expiry forces it.
- Prepare questions for your account team on Trainium capacity pricing and Capacity Block terms.
Regions and data residency
- Confirm which workloads must stay in ap-south-1 or ap-south-2 under your contracts and DPDP design.
- If Hyderabad is your disaster recovery target, check that the services you need run there and that the Region is enabled in your account.
Security
- Identify where agents run untrusted or generated code and how it is isolated today.
- Evaluate Nitro Sandboxes on one EKS or ECS workload before re:Invent.
- Confirm each agent has its own IAM identity and CloudTrail coverage.
Logistics
- Register for the free livestream and block the IST or GMT slots above.
- Assign one person per keynote to log launches against this checklist.
Worked example: AgentCore web search for an agent served from Mumbai
Take a hypothetical support agent for an Indian SaaS company, running in Mumbai. It makes 5,000 web searches a day to check product and regulatory updates.
- Monthly queries: 5,000 × 30 = 150,000.
- Cost: 150,000 ÷ 1,000 × $7 = $1,050 a month, or $12,600 a year.
- In rupees, at Rs 93.93 per US dollar (ECB reference rates, 10 November 2026): $1,050 × 93.93 = about ₹98,627 a month.
- At 50,000 searches a day the same arithmetic gives $10,500 a month, or $126,000 a year.
The price is only half the decision. The Web Search API is not available in Mumbai or Hyderabad. By distance from Mumbai, the closest Regions that offer it are Tokyo (about 6,700 km) and Ireland (about 7,600 km), so the agent would call a Region outside India. Search queries often contain user text, so strip personal data from queries before they leave India, or route through a provider and Region your data protection review has approved. If AWS adds Mumbai at re:Invent, rerun this check: the cost stays the same but the residency picture changes.
For GPU-heavy teams, the parallel exercise uses the new Capacity Block amortisation. If the amortised view shows, say, 30% of a block unused, that idle share is the first number to bring to any conversation about new capacity offers.
India, EU and US notes
India. Three keynotes start at 10:00 pm IST, so for most teams the free livestream, or a recording, is the practical option. Mumbai and Hyderabad are the only Indian Regions, and their AgentCore coverage differs, so map every agent call that leaves India. Watch for launches that list either Region on day one.
EU and UK. Three keynotes start at 16:30 GMT, a workable afternoon slot. Among European Regions, the AgentCore Web Search API runs only in Ireland. Teams planning a provider or Region move should note that from 12 January 2027, Article 29(1) of the EU Data Act bars providers from charging customers for switching, as our EU Data Act switching explainer sets out.
US. For in-person attendees, Thursday is the Security focus day at Wynn, and the Expo closes at 4:00 pm that day.
After re:Invent
We plan a recap after 4 December that maps each launch to the watchlist above, with availability status, Regions at launch and published prices, and we will refresh our Trainium, Bedrock retirement and AgentCore guides where announcements change them. For the Microsoft side of the season, our Microsoft Ignite 2026 watchlist covers Ignite in San Francisco from 17 to 20 November.
How eCorpIT can help
eCorpIT is a Gurugram-based technology organisation, founded in 2021, assessed at CMMI Level 5 and MSME certified, with senior-led engineering teams working across AWS, Microsoft and Google platforms. Our cloud computing services team can map Bedrock and AgentCore features to Indian Regions, size Trainium and GPU capacity against real utilisation, and plan model migrations ahead of Bedrock retirement dates. Talk to us at /contact-us/.
Last updated: 11 November 2026.
