After a two-year hiatus (virtual in 2020 and hybrid in 2021), AWS re:Invent was back in person this year in its full glory. Over 52,000 people attended — more than we saw at RSA (26,000) and Blackhat USA (21,000) combined this year.

Live conferences are finally back, and the 11th annual AWS re:Invent did not disappoint. After a virtual 2020 and an in-person reduced-sized edition in 2021, there were more than 52,000 (yes — 52,000!) smiling faces milling about this year’s conference in Las Vegas. As per usual, re:Invent was full of exciting product news and updates. Here are the major announcements that got our attention and some of the things Snyk was up to in Vegas.

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At this year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Snyk’s VP of Product Marketing, Ravi Maira, spoke with Omar Peerzada, Cyber Security Architect at Neiman Marcus, about how his team transitioned from older security practices to a developer-first security strategy. Watch the full talk now, or keep reading for the highlights.

Just like shopping on Black Friday, AWS re:Invent has become a post-Thanksgiving tradition for some of us at Datadog. We were excited to join tens of thousands of fellow AWS users and partners for this annual gathering that features new product announcements, technical sessions, networking, and fun. This year, we saw three themes emerge from the conference announcements and sessions.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity will host its annual meeting focusing on cybersecurity from November 15-16 in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the primary themes for the 2022 event is cyber resilience, with a focus on organizations developing the proper leadership and cooperation to deal with the growing threat landscape.

This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA featured new and exciting updates from the open source community, and we also hosted our own event, Cloud Native Policy Day with OPA, hosted by Styra. At Cloud Native Policy Day, we were fortunate to host a full roster of Open Policy Agent (OPA) luminaries from leading companies to speak at our event, and we wanted to share some high-level takeaways from their talks– each of which showcased unique ways of using OPA.

That’s a wrap for Data Security Summit 2022! Last month, we gathered some of the wisest forces from the frontlines of cybersecurity to discuss why data security is a crucial component—and often a missing one—of a well-rounded security strategy.

With over 300 vendors exhibiting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 (which is the long and official conference name), there was no shortage of early-stage vendors (230 at the silver and startup sponsor level) to visit for the 7000 attendees. Observability and security solutions were popular for the early-stage exhibitors.