What's next after AWS re:Invent 2025? Your Guide to Keeping the Momentum Going
Keep the re:Invent 2025 momentum going with this guide to post-conference resources. Join user groups, attend re:Caps, access free training, and stay inspired.
Even after re:Invent 2025 ends, it doesn't mean you can't keep moving forward with what you learned during the week. Every day during re:Invent, we saw big announcements, impressive launches, and innovative features from builders all over the world. The biggest takeaway? There's a lot of opportunity in 2025 to keep building and reinventing the way you innovate to reach your goals.
Let's dive into some easy ways to continue with the momentum you've built over the last week!
Join the 10,000 AIdeas Competition
At re:Invent, we started talking about the Global 10,000 AIdeas Competition. The competition is for you to turn your vision into a practical AI-powered application. Compete for $250,000 in cash prizes, AWS credits, exclusive swag, and recognition from AWS leadership across 20 winner categories. 🔎 Learn more about the challenge
Get Up to Speed on re:Invent Announcements and Talks
Attend AWS Community re:Caps. After re:Invent, we offer a series of events in person or virtually that user groups deliver called AWS re:Caps. The re:Caps will start running as early as next week, and they're going to let people from around the world who either went to re:Invent, watched it virtually, or weren't able to keep up with it while it was happening live to learn and dive a little bit deeper into the launches that were announced and how they can affect developers in the future. 🔎 Find AWS Community re:Caps events near you
Check out what launched. So much was announced during re:Invent that it can be overwhelming but in a good way! We have different resources that you can go and check out for launches, including articles that summarize everything that was rolled out in the last week. It's pretty cool. 🔎 Explore the launch announcements
(re)Watch the keynotes and sessions on demand. Our AWS Events team has built a great collection of YouTube playlists covering re:Invent content, and they're ready for you to either rewatch or watch for the first time. You'll hear from the leaders of AWS, customers, as well as builders walking through a lot of different topics, use cases, and the ways they solved solutions that they feel are valuable for developers. AWS re:Invent 2025 playlists to check out:
Technical Topics Playlists:
Audience-Specific Playlists:
Business-Focused Playlists:
Keep Learning and Training
We want you to keep upskilling and continue to learn new things. A lot was announced at re:Invent, but there's also a lot to learn to be able to use some of the cool things that were covered.
Pages in Builder Center continue your learning journey whether you are learning, building, or searching for tips from the AWS community. The Learn page offers training courses, gamified learning, and ways to validate your expertise. The Build page provides hands-on workshops and free tier access. You can also explore by topic to dive deeper into areas that interest you.
Builder Center is also where you can share your experiences and ask questions. We want it to be the place for you to find community, tools, and resources to keep moving forward in your career as you're developing with the cloud.
Keep Connecting to the Community
Find or create a user group. If you don't have one in your area to join, consider creating one and leading it to pull together AWS builders so you can keep connecting with one another. User groups are incredible spaces for sharing knowledge, solving problems together, and staying inspired. 🔎 Explore AWS User Groups
Join or create Spaces on Builder Center. Online in Builder Center, you can join or create a Space where builders like you can come together around shared interests and continue to connect no matter where you are in the world. 🔎 Explore Spaces on Builder Center
Here are a few spaces you might want to join:
The Bottom Line
Overall, something we really want you to take away from re:Invent 2025 is that having community no matter where the builders you know are from around the world is incredibly important to help you stay motivated, to help you stay inspired, and to help you find the tools and resources that you need to keep going.
The learning doesn't stop when re:Invent ends. In fact, it's just getting started. So keep building, keep connecting, and keep reinventing what's possible.
What are you most excited to explore after re:Invent? Share your plans in the comments below, or join us in Builder Center to connect with other builders on their post-re:Invent journey.
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