AWS Summit Japan
Overview
The largest AWS cloud technology event in Japan. Features keynotes, technical sessions, and exhibition booths showcasing the latest cloud services. 69,000 attendees in 2025. Free with pre-registration.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2013
- Founder
- Amazon Web Services
Launched to promote cloud technology adoption and build customer community as AWS expanded in Japan
Transition
- 2013 AWS Summit Tokyo 初開催
- 2019 幕張メッセに会場を拡大
- 2020 オンライン開催に移行
- 2025 過去最大の69,000人が参加
Voices
The technical sessions are high quality, providing insights directly applicable to architecture design.
Being able to compare partner solutions at exhibition booths in one place is very efficient.
Spoke in a case-study session on their SRE team while surveying the latest tools at AWS Expo (from anecho108's report, in Japanese)
A first-time attendee whose biggest takeaway was Design for Evaluation, defining criteria before delegating to AI (from yuuuka's report, in Japanese)
Findy's three-member SRE team took home practical lessons: choosing tech by fit with the business years ahead, and a multi-tier cache design that cut 60,000-user streaming latency to 150ms average (from Findy SRE team's report, in Japanese)
Arriving with a concrete problem to solve, a Collabo Style engineer reversed a technical decision on site, switching from self-managed GPU EC2 to WorkSpaces GPU bundles after talks at the AWS Village (from miko of Collabo Style's report, in Japanese)
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