AWS re:Invent Conference

AWS re:Invent 2023 is just around the corner. Taking place from November 27 - December 1, 2023 in Las Vegas, this conference is a must-attend event for cloud enthusiasts.

Don't miss Splunk at re:Invent! Stop by Booth #1180 to say hello. We've got Booth Demos, Theater Sessions, Splunk Speakers, and plenty of Splunk Special Events throughout the week. Learn more in these sections of the blog post: 

• Booth Demos
• Theater Sessions
• Splunk Speakers
• Splunk Special Events

Read on to learn all the details about AWS re:Invent 2023 and how to engage with Splunk at re:Invent!

Passes & Pricing

There are two primary pass types:

1. Full Conference Pass - $2,099
2. Virtual-only Pass - Free

Register now on the AWS Events website.

Why attend AWS re:Invent

AWS re:Invent is your best opportunity to get hands-on access and learn from AWS experts. No matter if you're a certified AWS expert or a newbie, all are welcome here to pick up new skills, explore new use cases and, ultimately, learn about the latest in all things AWS.

Wondering who attends this event? The better question might be who doesn’t attend it. Beyond the great Amazon community itself, you can expect to see employees and fans, booths and networking opportunities from all the biggest names in tech (and tons of smaller ones too) including Red Hat, Cisco, PwC, Infosys and yes, Splunk! 

The global cloud community has been meeting at re:Invent for 10+ years in order to network, get inspired and imagine innovation. Attendees at re:Invent can expect all sorts of programming, including:

• Bootcamps designed to expanding your understanding of AWS services, solutions to help prep you for certification.
• Breakout sessions, organized by experience level and led by AWS experts.
• Expo, the busy floor where it all happens: peer networking, hands-on chats, and interactive demos.
• AWS Builder Labs, where cloudies and devs can experience AWS in a live sandbox environment.
• Partner experience shares stories of cloud-powered innovation and how partners like Splunk use AWS Cloud.

Tips for new attendees

Scour Reddit or the internet and you’ll definitely pick up some tips from the attendees who’ve been doing this for awhile. Here are some tips to think about before you get to Vegas:

1. Book sessions ASAP with the mobile app. AWS will release a mobile app for the 2023 event. Book sessions as soon as you can, because many of the popular ones will fill up in advance.
2. Use your sessions to pick your hotel. Walking around Vegas can take a long time, so if you see a bunch of your must-do activities are in one place, try to sleep as close to that venue as possible.
3. Meet people, meet people, meet people! These events are great for formal and informal networking. Introduce yourself, wear some fun swag, and even schedule meetings in advance with colleagues, friends or clients that you know will be there. With the event so spread out, it’s impossible to just “bump into” someone you’re looking for.
4. Plan for packed shuttle buses. AWS does run shuttle buses, but at particularly busy times like mid-morning or for major keynotes. That’s why your comfortable shoes are key.
5. Explore Vegas. Yes, the cloud is everywhere, but Vegas itself it worth experiencing IRL. Book a special restaurant or check out one of the many excellent art museums for yourself.

Book a Meeting Space

One of the most convenient features of AWS re:Invent 2023 is the bookable meeting space. Available Monday, November 27, through Thursday, November 30 at the Encore hotel, there are a variety of reception and meeting room capacities and configurations. Learn more here.

What is AWS re:Invent?

AWS re:Invent bills itself as “the most transformative event in tech”, inviting participants to “get inspired and rethink what’s possible”. It’s been around for 10+ years, and it focuses on all things cloud computing. Which is to say: basically every angle of technology.

Interestingly, re:Invent is also the name of a 37-story office building at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle. Which came first? The building only opened in 2019, and it was named after the already established event. Our guess is the views here are pretty amazing.

Splunk and AWS

At the core of Splunk’s solutions is our extensible data platform that provides end-to-end visibility into an organization’s entire technology stack, including AWS, on-premises and other environments. 

Splunk and AWS celebrated 10 years of strategic collaboration last year — that’s more than a decade of teamwork, co-innovation and exceptional data driven outcomes for our joint customers. This year, Splunk and AWS opened the doors to welcome customers and partners at the very first Splunk Immersive Experience Center powered by AWS in Splunk's EMEA Headquarters. With Splunk and AWS, customers can innovate with confidence, migrate and modernize existing environments, scale without limits, and keep systems secure.

• Splunk has been recognized with 8 AWS Competencies, 4 Service Validations, 3 Partner Programs and is a Premium AWS Marketplace Seller and a top AWS ISV Workload Migration Partner.
   
• Splunk was an AWS launch partner for Amazon Security Lake and AWS AppFabric. The Splunk Add-On for AWS allows Splunk to efficiently ingest OCSF-compliant data from Amazon Security Lake and AppFabric, enabling security teams to readily use data from AWS and other sources to achieve comprehensive attack-surface coverage. 
   
• Splunk OpenTelemetry instrumentation for AWS Lambda enables you to effectively manage and monitor Lambda functions as part of your serverless applications, ensuring reliability and efficiency.

Splunk's AWS Booth #1180

Visit us at Booth #1180 to see how Splunk helps deliver a data-centric approach to security and observability when every second counts.

Booth Demos

Automate Threat Analysis
Splunk Attack Analyzer automates threat analysis of suspected malware or credential phishing threats by identifying and extracting associated forensics to provide accurate and timely detections.

Bringing ITOps and Engineering Together
Today, it’s no secret—digital runs your business. Now more than ever, there is more to monitor within your environments. You need to have complete visibility across your commercial applications as well as your customer facing, cloud-based web and mobile apps that generate revenue for your business. How do you detect, investigate and respond fast enough to keep customers happy?

Isolate problems in Cloud Environments
Finally, one engineer has context to solve problems across the entire system. Cut through the complexity of cloud-native environments to troubleshoot issues faster.

Observability for your hybrid cloud
Instrument your cloud environment using the OpenTelemetry Collectors and view metrics side by side with your Splunk logs.

Rapid Detection & Investigation
Details coming soon!

Reduce alert noise with ITSI
Learn how intelligent event correlation reduces alert noise and helps ITOps teams prioritize actionable events so they can quickly find root cause and resolve critical incidents.

Looking for something else? Don't worry, our technical experts will be able to access additional information onsite to help answer your questions.

Splunk Edge Hub Demo & Activation

Splunk Edge Hub makes it easier to capture and act on a subset of data that has historically been difficult to access. The device — coupled with the power of the Splunk platform — helps customers to achieve rapid time to action, end to end visibility, and extensibility of data generated in physical environments, all at scale.  

Come check out what Edge Hub has to offer while walking away with a one of a kind custom keepsake. 

Theater Sessions

Monday, November 27, 2023

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Splunk Speakers

How does Splunk’s industry leading solutions drive digital resilience in our customers? Our unified security and observability platform allows SecOps, ITOps and engineer teams to collaborate to ensure their systems remain secure and reliable. Splunk is a single platform designed for the way you work, with the capabilities your business demands. Hear from Splunk leaders as they offer insights into how building with Splunk on AWS can solve problems in seconds with the only OpenTelemetry-native observability solution, protect your business and elevate your security operations, and more!

Improve SaaS application security observability with AWS AppFabric

Time | Monday, November 27th | 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Location | Mandalay Bay | Level 2 | South | Reef F
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The rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application adoption puts increased pressure on IT and security teams to continuously manage disparate data and point-to-point integrations. Inefficiencies multiply as data silos form and security complexities grow. Join this session to learn how AWS AppFabric automatically normalizes SaaS application data so security analysts can more easily ingest logs into their preferred security tool and enhance their security posture at reduced operational costs.

Building Digital Resilience - with unified security and observability

Time | Tuesday, November 28th | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location | Venetian | Lido 3002
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Today’s organizations are under constant pressure from cyber threats, outages and more. Economic and political uncertainty create even less room for error. At the same time, customers continue to expect seamless, always-on experiences. In the face of these disruptions, organizations are tasked with keeping their systems secure and reliable. But building digital resilience brings major challenges; increasing complexity through modern technology stacks, siloed teams and tools and an ever evolving threat landscape. In this session, learn how Splunk and AWS help organizations across all industries to innovate and adapt quickly while maintaining security, reliability and compliance requirements.

Observability Best Practices for Hybrid Environments

Time | Tuesday, November 28th | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Live Session | Venetian | Lido 3002
Content Hub | Wynn - Latour 4, Content Hub, Green Screen
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Teams who work in hybrid environments often struggle with data consistency and context, visibility, as well as scalability and resource management. Left unresolved, these challenges can result in delayed issue detection, inaccurate troubleshooting and resource strain, impacting overall system performance and business operations. This session provides a crash course in best practices for observability in hybrid environments. You’ll learn how to aggregate data across on-prem and AWS environments to see your entire application regardless of where it's hosted and how to leverage the Splunk Observability platform to solve issues in multiple environments from one dashboard.

Getting the Most out of Splunk Security, OCSF, and Amazon Security Lake

Time | Wednesday, November 29th | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location | Caesar’s Forum | Academy 407
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With the release of the Amazon Security Lake and the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), Splunk Security is now in a unique position to provide insights into your security data wherever it resides. Join us as we look at getting data in, the unique capabilities of OCSF and common information model (CIM), and AWS and Splunk configurations. We’ll talk about practical use cases, setup and configuration, and the next steps in using Splunk Security with Amazon Security Lake.

Splunk Edge Hub for OT/IIoT data collection and edge computing

Time | Wednesday, November 29th | 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Location | Venetian | Show Floor | Developer Solutions Zone
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Splunk Edge Hub makes collecting data from industrial and environmental sensors fast and easy. This frees that data for uses beyond the silos where it has typically been trapped to merge it with and enrichen it with other security, IT, and business data. Come see how it works and why you care.

Splunk Special Events

Join the in cloud at AWS re:Invent for a week of unparalleled excitement and innovation! Dive into the heart of cutting-edge technology with Splunk, where we're turning data into action like never before. From insightful workshops to dynamic demos, our booth is the hub of next-level insights. Plus, don't miss our legendary after-hours gatherings - the networking opportunities are boundless! Elevate your re:Invent experience with Splunk, and let's embark on a journey of discovery together.

Book a Meeting with Splunk Executives

Splunk is excited to be in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2023 on November 27-30, 2023. If you have plans to be there, we would like to extend an invitation to meet with our on-site security and observability leaders, AWS partner team and experts to engage in thought leadership discussions on how Splunk helps organizations achieve digital resilience.

Welcome Reception with Splunk

Date | Monday, November 27, 2023
Time | 7:00 - 9:00 PM PT
Location | Venetian Hotel - Spritz Restaurant & Bar
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You can bet your sweet SaaS that Splunk is kicking off AWS re:Invent with a welcome reception that will transport you to to the idyllic coast of the Mediterranean. Join Splunk leaders, partners and the Cloud community for refreshments and networking with peers as we kick off a great week at re:Invent 2023.

Restaurant Reception with Splunk

Date | Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Time | 6:00 - 8:00 PM PT
Location | MGM Grand - International Smoke
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Nobody puts data in a corner! That's why for Splunk's 2023 restaurant reception we are heading international. Join Splunk at the MGM Grand for an evening of out of this world food and drink at International Smoke. We look forward to igniting a new spark of flavor and creativity with our Cloud innovators on Tuesday!

Tenable + Splunk Happy Hour

Date | Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Time | 6:00 - 8:00 PM PT
Location | The Neon Museum
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You are invited to join Tenable and Splunk for a fun evening at The Neon Museum in Las Vegas during re:Invent! Founded in 1996, The Neon Museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying, and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational, historic, arts, and cultural enrichment.

JAM Lounge

Date | Monday, November 27, 2023 - Thursday, November 30, 2023
Time | Show Floor Hours
Location | Venetian Show Floor

Stop by the Jam Lounge in the Exhibit Hall to gain access and participate in fun challenges from AWS, Splunk, and other vendors. Experience this hands-on experience solving complex problems using real technology. In Splunk’s challenge, you’ll learn how to use APM in a live environment to troubleshoot latency issues. Join a team, get swag and maybe even win prizes..