Cloud and AI accelerate game development innovation at AWS re:Invent 2026
Make time for special events On Monday, November 30, 2026, head to The LINQ (conference center, floor 3) for the 2nd Annual AWS Betting & Gaming Day being held from 12:30 – 7:00 PM…” Finish out the week at AWS re:play, the official end-of-event party on Thursday, December 3, starting a…
More than 60,000 engineers, developers, and business leaders will soon gather in Las Vegas, NV, for Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent November 30-December 4, 2026. Once again, the biggest cloud and AI conference will showcase the latest technology, trends, and innovations in game development. To confirm your spot, register today and explore the full slate of sessions and activities using the AWS Events mobile app on iOS or Android.
Build and play a game using agentic AI
Inside the AWS for Industries Zone on the re:Invent expo floor at The Venetian, experience groundbreaking developments firsthand. Attendees can create a complete, playable game prototype in minutes using agentic AI in the Agentic Arcade. The demo introduces 3D games, a LiveOps dashboard, local and cloud LLM integration for development, a graphical agent view, cross-Amazon game promotion, a holographic game character in a Proto box, and a photo op with a life-size Riot Games League of Legends character.
Roblox: The World Needs More Play
See how Roblox runs one of the world’s largest interactive platforms — millions of creators and players at once — and how its agentic AI lets anyone turn a single prompt into a playable, secure 3D experience. Play the game while you chat with technical experts from Roblox to learn how they got it done.
Learn new skills
See the cloud and AI in action with gaming-centric programming at re:Invent 2026. There are a host of lecture-style breakout sessions, small-group builder sessions, AWS expert-led chalk talks, and a hands-on workshop to choose from. More details are available in the AWS for Games Attendee Guide with highlights provided below.
Breakout Sessions
IND3348: A Context Gap, Not a Data Gap: Riot Games Rethinks Incident Learning
Live-service teams excel at detecting incidents and restoring service, but using each review to improve the next response remains difficult. Riot Games has extensive telemetry, incident records, triage practices, and root cause analysis, yet analysts must still connect evidence across systems. Riot Games and AWS share an AI-assisted post-incident review approach that brings evidence together, provides traceable recommendations, and keeps decisions with human reviewers. Explore how preserving uncertainty, linking claims to source evidence, and using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as a reusable foundation can help teams close context gaps and improve operational learning.
IND383: An Epic Tale: Hyperscale Storage & Compute for the Fortnite Ecosystem
The metaverse will be built by thousands of teams shipping petabytes of content, running millions of build and render jobs across regions every day. The engineers behind Lore, Epic’s distributed version control system for massive binary repositories, and Overmind, a multi-region ephemeral compute orchestrator, reveal the AWS architecture that makes it possible.
IND392: From Millions of Gamers to AI at Scale: Roblox’s Hybrid AWS Architecture Unleashed
At Roblox, scaling means continuously adapting. Join Roblox to learn how they combine AWS with on-premises infrastructure to dynamically place workloads across regions, architectures, and AI providers. Find out how Roblox keeps gaming and AI services responsive under record-breaking loads using Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, hybrid scheduling, multi-region load balancing, self-hosted AI inference alongside Amazon Bedrock, and heterogeneous compute.
Builders’ Sessions (laptop required)
IND351: Breathing Life into Game Worlds with Amazon Neptune & GraphRAG
Unlock rich game worlds with dynamic NPC dialogue using Amazon Neptune, Amazon Bedrock GraphRAG, and the “Entity as Agent” approach. Experience a live-demo of natural-language character relationship search, in-character AI dialogue, and in-game party composition recommendations.
IND420: Build Agentic Video Streaming Observability Using Kiro and Bedrock
Media operations teams struggle to correlate issues across complex live streaming pipelines. Build an agentic video observability and analytics application using Kiro and Amazon Bedrock that monitors the entire live streaming chain using AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor, and Amazon CloudFront. Deploy AI agents using Strands Agents SDK and MCP servers to ingest, visualize, and investigate end-to-end QoE/QoS analytics across origin health, CDN performance, and client-side CMCD telemetry. Learn how to create a unified dashboard and natural language interface for streaming quality investigation.
Chalk Talks
IND316: Best Practices for Successful Multiplayer Game Launches
Discover best practices, architectural guidance, and lessons learned for successful multiplayer game launches at scale. Experts offer experience based on helping hundreds of game customers from indie studios to AAA titles launch their games on AWS.
IND382: Enterprise-Ready: How NetEase Governs AI at Scale
Learn how NetEase is building enterprise AI governance as AI adoption scales across the organization. Discover how Amazon Bedrock enables multi-model routing, cost controls, and team-level budget management to optimize AI usage. See how NetEase enforces governance with company-wide AI policies, Bedrock Guardrails for content safety, and Bedrock AgentCore for orchestrating agentic AI workflows with centralized governance and observability.
Workshop (laptop required)
IND363: Defeat Player Evasion: AI Moderation at Scale on Amazon Bedrock
Players evade moderation with leetspeak, homoglyphs, emoji sequences, and fast-evolving slang. Brute-force AI classification catches evasion but is cost-prohibitive at scale. Learn how to build a tiered moderation pipeline on Amazon Bedrock that routes 80–90% of traffic through deterministic normalization and pre-filters before invoking a model. Ambiguous content gets classified by Amazon Nova at sub-500ms latency. Only the hardest cases escalate to multi-agent analysis on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for context-dependent decisions.
Make time for special events
On Monday, November 30, 2026, head to The LINQ (conference center, floor 3) for the 2nd Annual AWS Betting & Gaming Day being held from 12:30 – 7:00 PM. Sessions tailored for Betting & Gaming professionals will span deep technical dives to driving business outcomes. Attendees can connect with AWS specialists, explore AWS solutions through live demonstrations, network with industry peers, and play around in a retro arcade. Register here.
After hours, attendees can choose from several uniquely re:Invent experiences, including a hackathon, trivia, a fun run, and dedicated nights for “Dungeons and Dragons” and “Magic: The Gathering.”
Finish out the week at AWS re:play, the official end-of-event party on Thursday, December 3, starting at 8:00 PM. Join the AWS global community at Allegiant Field for music, games, food, and lots of fun. Registered attendees can RSVP in their re:Invent portal.
Reach out to your AWS account team to learn more about additional event opportunities, including executive roundtables and select gatherings.
Get in touch
Connect with an AWS for Games expert to learn how to build breakthrough gaming experiences using the cloud and AI. See you in Vegas!
Further reading
Author: David Holladay