Announcements with the way forward for CXOs and leadership.
AWS re:Invent 2026 runs November 30 to December 4 in Las Vegas. Daily analysis from the NuVista AI team starts December 1.
The re:Invent 2026 session catalog points to four areas that matter for data and AI teams planning 2027.
Wednesday, December 2
The keynote focuses on three things teams change to move agents out of the demo: how agents reach their data, how teams measure what agents are worth, and the limits teams set.
What it means: Teams planning agent pilots for 2027 should settle data access, measurement and limits before choosing a model.
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The session covers new RG instances, a built‑in data lake engine that reads and writes Apache Iceberg tables in place, and multi‑warehouse architecture.
What it means: Teams planning a warehouse migration should check whether RG instances and in‑place Iceberg change their target architecture.
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Agents use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build pipelines across AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift and Amazon MWAA Serverless.
What it means: Data engineering leads should decide now how agent‑built pipelines get reviewed before they run in production.
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The Amazon Redshift MCP Server lets agents write SQL from plain English. The session focuses on stopping query hallucination, prompt injection and PII exposure.
What it means: Before text‑to‑SQL reaches business users, build guardrails for hallucination, injection and PII into the design.
Five sessions our team recommends for data and analytics leaders.
Graviton‑powered RG instances, native Apache Iceberg read and write, and multi‑warehouse architecture.
A clear architecture plan for a faster, open warehouse.
Agents building pipelines across AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift and Amazon MWAA Serverless from one prompt.
Faster analytics on open table formats.
Security gates for text‑to‑SQL agents in production.
Reserve seats in the official re:Invent 2026 session catalog.
All keynotes take place at The Venetian and stream live. Our analysis of each one is published here the same day.
Speaker to be announced by AWS
Matt Garman, CEO, AWS
Speaker to be announced by AWS
Ruba Borno, Vice President, AWS Specialists & Partners
Speaker to be announced by AWS
Times from the AWS re:Invent 2026 agenda. Watch live on the AWS keynotes page.
Bimal Tandel, John Aguilar and Vinay Tandel are on the expo floor all week.