Hero guide: Cloud Admin's re:Inforce Playbook

A curated, hands-on session roadmap for cloud admins at AWS re:Inforce. Discover practical sessions on GenAI-driven security, securing AI systems, and building a robust security culture to maximize your learning and impact.

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AWS re:Inforce is packed with insights, but as a cloud administrator, you need the ones that translate into real action. I have prepared this guide on the most relevant, hands-on sessions across three key themes—so you can build skills you’ll use immediately. Whether you’re automating security with generative AI, learning to secure AI tools themselves, or strengthening your organization’s security culture, these sessions are all about practical takeaways. Follow this playbook to plan an agenda that boosts your cloud security expertise and returns you to work with proven techniques, code examples, and fresh ideas you can deploy right away.

Generative AI for Cloud Security

Learn how generative AI can supercharge your security operations. These sessions highlight practical ways to automate defenses, accelerate incident response and compliance, and bolster threat analysis using cutting-edge AI tools.

SEC351 | Builders' session | Accelerating incident response, compliance & auditing using generative AI

This session focuses on accelerating incident investigations and audits with AWS generative AI. Tune in to derive security insights from your data.

SEC352 | Builders' session | Agentic AI for security: Building intelligent egress traffic controls

This session teaches security AI agents to monitor and control outgoing traffic. Automate egress filtering and catch anomalies in real time.

SEC451 | Builders' session | From logs to defense: Generative AI for security automation

Making security logs actionable is a big challenge. Join this session to see AI sift through logs, spot patterns, and auto-generate alerts or fixes.

TDR452 | Builders' session | Build generative AI security runbooks with Amazon Bedrock

Would you trust AI to run playbooks? Tune in to see how you can automate security playbooks using generative AI for faster and more consistent responses.

GRC354 | Builders' session | Best practices for using generative AI to manage cloud compliance

Compliance is always a daunting task. Attend this session to generate audit reports and check configurations against policies.

Securing AI Itself

Protect the AI systems you deploy. This theme dives into keeping generative AI agents and platforms secure: making AI applications resilient, guarding sensitive data they use, preventing manipulation like prompt attacks, and enforcing strong access controls.

SEC303 | Breakout session | Behind the shields: AWS and Anthropic's approach to secure AI

Join to learn security lessons from AWS and Anthropic - two giants combining powers. See what it takes to shield AI models and data at scale, use proven techniques to fortify your own AI deployments.

SEC431 | Chalk talk | Dive deep into data protection architectures for Amazon Bedrock Agents

Deep-dive into securing data for Amazon Bedrock AI agents. From encryption to architecture design, understand how to protect sensitive info that your AI models rely on.

DAP371 | Workshop | Defend your AI: Mitigate prompt injection with Amazon Bedrock

Learn how to mitigate prompt injection attacks on your AI with Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to detect and neutralize malicious prompts for safer AI outputs.

IAM441 | Code talk | The right way to secure AI agents with code examples

I can't think of re:Inforce and not mentioning IAM. See IAM best practices in action to tightly control who or what can access your AI systems.

Build Security Culture

Scale security beyond just tools—build it into your team’s culture. Sessions here focus on the human side: instilling security-first mindsets, training security champions, gamifying good practices, integrating checks in pipelines, and learning from every incident.

SEC204 | Breakout session | Build and scale a security-first engineering culture

Join this session to get practical tips to bake security into daily work so everyone—from devs to ops—shares responsibility for protecting the cloud.

SEC231 | Chalk talk | Scale security ownership: Building your Security Champions program

Join this session to discover how to empower team members as security advocates to multiply your impact and spread security know-how across your org.

APS204 | Breakout session | Scaling security with Sportsbet's Security Guardians program

See practical example of Sportsbet’s experience on security culture. See how their Security Guardians program works and gather ideas to launch a similar one in your company.

GRC351 | Builders' session | Build a security posture leaderboard using generative AI

Learn how to build a generative AI-powered security leaderboard to spark friendly competition and drive continuous improvement across teams.

TDR321 | Lightning talk | From incidents to insights: Creating a security learning organization

Join to learn how to capture each incident's lessons and feed them back into your processes, so your team gets smarter and more resilient each time.

Closing comments

Cloud admins face daily challenges on security day-to-day. Dive in, get hands-on with these sessions, and return from AWS re:Inforce ready to supercharge security in your organization after learning from sessions on generative AI and building organizational security culture.