Well, it’s December 2019 and you know what that means — it’s AWS re:Invent time again! While the announcement of new services are great, let’s get to the real fun — a swag review from the biggest cloud conference in the world.

This year I tried as hard as possible to give a COMPLETE review of re:Invent swag. I visited almost every single booth, save for a few that either had no swag or were only offering a sticker or some chocolate.

I also didn’t collect things I got a LOT of in previous years — so less socks, no pins and no t-shirts. I did however take photos of as many of them as possible, as there were still some amazing designs out there!

So, without further ado, here we go!

Amazon

We begin each year with the hoodie and the bottle. This year AWS have gone blue and it looks fantastic! It also comes with the re-usable bottle as well, which are solid and were available in a bunch of colors. They also worked together with Cupanion which will donate water every time your bar code is scanned.

AWS Certification Lounge

Next we head over to the certification lounge to get our certified swag! This year, a pullover, socks, pin and sticker. The pullover is very nice, with a thin sports-like fabric. Thanks cert team!

4k/8k Charity Run

For the 4th year running I will be taking part in the charity run, this year it promises to be a lovely 0c/32f degrees.. brrrrrr ❄️ To make up for that, the t-shirt is really nice!

Throughout the week there was also a bunch of swag available depending on the different AWS booth departments you visited. Last year I scored a spoon with “Serverless for breakfast” teaspoon on it. This year the Serverless booth gave out a “Serverless for lunch” fork, and I look forward to my Serverless for butter knife in 2020 and Serverless for dessert spoon in 2021!

re:Play

The biggest tech party of the year always has some cool shirts and this year did NOT disappoint! They were really awesome neon t-shirts. One was a 3d text rotation thing and the other was space invaders.