The AWS Summit London agenda for 2023 went live in mid-May, and the schedule shape will be familiar to anyone who has attended a Summit before - a morning keynote followed by parallel technical tracks, hands-on workshops, and partner sessions spread across the afternoon.

What to expect

AWS Summits are the free regional cousins of re:Invent. You lose the service-launch spectacle but gain something useful: the content is pitched at the realities of running AWS in your region, often with local customer case studies that simply would not make the Vegas keynote stage.

Key things to plan around:

  • Keynote and partner keynote - usually a single large room, so arrive early if you want a seat rather than an overflow screen
  • Level 200/300 technical sessions - the architectural depth sits here, with some 400-level talks for experienced practitioners
  • Workshops and builder sessions - limited capacity, and the most valuable content if you can get a place
  • Expo floor - partner booths and the AWS service teams, worth visiting for the in-person conversations you cannot get online

Tracks typically covered

Expect full coverage of the big AWS topics: analytics and AI/ML, security, serverless, containers and Kubernetes (EKS), data and storage, networking, and sustainability. The exact mix shifts year on year depending on what AWS has announced at the preceding re:Invent.

Planning resources